Interventionist

The New York Foundling • Queens, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

Requirements

• BA Social work, Sociology, Psychology related field
• Ability to engage clients
• Willingness and ability to be strength focused
• Ability to problem solve and make decisions
• Willingness to advocate for caregiver, youth, and family
• Ability to manage stress and self-care
• Ability to maintain high level of self-awareness
• Ability to receive and execute feedback in a timely manner
• Ability to be comfortable with cultural differences; to relate in ways that are respectful, strength-focused
• Bachelor’s Degree from a U.S. accredited educational institution or Credential Evaluation for a non-U.S. educational institution

Responsibilities

• Provide direct home-based interventions to address risk factors, increase protective factors, and ensure the safety of families.
• Provide home-based clinical treatment utilizing the Functional Family Therapy – Therapeutic Case Management (FFT-TCM) model to assigned caseload of up to 10 cases and provides coverage for peer's caseload as needed.
• Manage the extensive travel requirements involved in serving families in their homes.
• Conduct assessments including intakes, review of referral information, identifying and engaging key participants, identifying relational patterns, and individualized treatment planning.
• Engage families to sign for services and completes intakes with families within the required ACS timeframes.
• Participate in all required agency, model and stakeholder trainings, individual and group coaching and staff meetings.
• Adhere to model expectations and implement with fidelity including the timely completion of progress notes, session planning guides, session impact scales and appointment notes in the Care4 documentation system.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level