Social Worker/Case Planner
About The Position
New Alternatives for Children, Inc. (NAC) is an award-winning not-for-profit agency dedicated to serving children and families with medical complexities, chronic illnesses, and disabilities throughout the five boroughs. To assist in achieving this mission, NAC is currently seeking a Social Worker/Case Planner to join its Adoption and Kinship Support Program. NAC Adoption and Kinship Support programs offer families formed through adoption or guardianship a place to find the support, advocacy, information, and a range of professional health and social services needed to help them create or maintain a successful and permanent home. Our goals are to prevent post-adoptive and post-guardianship dissolutions/disruptions, provide assistance to families so that children may be cared for in their own homes with their adoptive parent(s) or legal guardian(s), and strengthen post-adoptive and post-guardianship families.
Requirements
- Bachelor's level degree in social work, psychology, or human service
- Bachelor's level degree in any field with at least two years of case management experience
- General knowledge of adoptive and kinship families
- Strong clinical and engagement skills
- Excellent written/verbal communication and organizational skills
- Self-awareness and motivation around team building
Nice To Haves
- Masters in Social Work Preferred
- Proficiency in Spanish is preferred (and includes a salary differential)
Responsibilities
- Provides supportive services to adoptive and kinship families post-finalization to strengthen and maintain placements and prevent disruptions/dissolutions
- Provides family-centered needs assessment, comprehensive psychosocial, trauma-screening, case management, and clinical services utilizing individual, family, and group work modalities
- Formulates and implements individualized service plans to identify family goals and needs
- Support and monitor permanency to assure the safety and needs of the family are being met
- Conducts monthly home and community-based visits to families
- Facilitates monthly support groups and workshops for parents and youth
- Coordinates services as recommended by NAC's interdisciplinary treatment team, which includes our psychiatrist, psychologist, pediatrician, nurses, educators, parent advocate, and resource staff
- Provides case coordination with hospitals, schools, mental health clinics and community-based organizations
- Provides information, referral, and advocacy services
- Attends outreach events and assists with recruitment efforts; collaborates with community providers to increase awareness about kinship and adoption resources
- Attends weekly supervision, monthly staff meetings, case conferences, trainings and workshops
- Ensures adherence to agency and programmatic policies and regulations; completes all required documentation in our behavioral health record.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
