Floating Case Planner
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HEARTSHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK
NY
Summary
The Floating Case Planner provides essential social services to children in foster care and assists parents in reuniting with their children. Responsibilities include creating service plans, monitoring child well-being, and facilitating mandated family visits and court hearings.
Job Description
Job Details: Job Location: 66 Boerum Place, 66 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 - Brooklyn, NY, Position Type: Full-Time, Education Level: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent, Salary Range: $25.85 - $29.21Hourly, Travel Percentage: Up to 50% , Job Shift: Day,
Sign-On Bonus: $2,000 (one-time; complete payout terms and overall pay breakdown provided in the formal offer)
Under the Division Director, the Floating Case Planner will assist case planners within the Division with day-to-day social services tasks. They will be responsible to support constructive services to children in foster care that improve their functioning. Connect parents to services that address family challenges and assist them with reuniting with their child. Their assignment can include filling in temporarily for a vacant case planner position to supporting their colleagues with family visit coverage, school visits, safety contact, etc.
Essential Functions and Primary Responsibilities :
Creates, in partnership with child, biological family and foster family, service plans which address safety, behavioral, educational, psychological and permanency needs.
Monitors safety, well-being and progress against other critical outcomes by facilitating regular casework contacts and by documenting the same in progress notes and other case documentation.
Schedules and supervises mandated visits between child and natural family; conducts ongoing required interviews in person with child, natural family and foster family; independently makes all related field visits, to homes, schools, courts, prisons, hospitals and other sites as case may require.
Attends weekly, at minimum, supervision with the supervisor to present and discuss case situations and provide update on status of current work; carries out supervisor directions regarding planning and service follow up.
Attends all Family Court hearings on assigned cases; provides testimony regarding case status and Agency position; follows up on court directives.
Participates actively in Family Team Conferences and other meetings to advance permanency for children and families. § Works closely with Integrated Services (Medical, Mental Health and Case Management) to ensure that the medical and mental health needs of children and the biological family, are being monitored appropriately, necessary medical training is being received and provided to foster parents and birth parents, services are being provided according to treatment needs and external collaborations are occurring as needed in order to ensure safety, permanency and wellbeing.
Utilizes individual and unit data collected by the city, state, federal and agency data and accountability departments, in order to measure/monitor performance and ensure that all outcomes are being met.
Serve as an alternate support coverage by facilitating the Family Team Conference (FTC).
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree from four year college or equivalent required.
Preferred if there is Knowledge of Child Welfare System.
Excellent written, oral, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills, and be a collaborative team player.
Ability to use public transportation to travel throughout New York City or Agency vehicle when available.
Benefits
What we offer once YOU join our growing family:
At Heartshare we offer a comprehensive benefit package based on full-time/part-time status. You can expect:
Rewarding Work in a team environment.
Paid vacation, sick, personal days, and holidays.
403(B) retirement plans with employer contribution.
Health, dental, vision and life insurance.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Flexible spending account (Dependent Care, Medical, Parking, and Transit).
Employee Appreciation Programs and Events.
Tuition Assistance Program.
Professional Development opportunities.
Gympass Discount
Verizon Wireless Discount.
BJs Membership discount.
Discounts on Broadway tickets, movie tickets, theme parks, sporting events, gift certificates & more
Heartshare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). If you need to request accommodation during the recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected].
About Heartshare
Who WE ARE:
For over 150 years, Heartshare has been dedicated to championing and empowering New Yorkers society has too often overlooked and underestimated.
To learn more about Heartshare, please visit our website at www.heartshare.org or follow us on Twitter LinkedIn YouTube Instagram Facebook
Heartshare nurtures and empowers children and adults diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders, through educational, life skills and vocational training, residential, case management, recreational, family support and health care services. Heartshare affiliates include The Heartshare School, which offers quality education and therapies to children with autism, Heartshare Wellness, which provides critical health services to those with developmental disabilities and case management to those with chronic conditions, and Heartshare St. Vincent’s Services (HSVS), which supports children, adults and families living in crisis due to experiences with poverty. Since its founding in 1914, Heartshare has expanded its reach to over 100 program sites in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, as well as to 61 of the 62 New York counties through energy grants to low-income families.
Heartshare is proud that 90% of all revenue goes directly to its programs and services. Heartshare is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children and is a Better Business Bureau Accredited Charity. For more information, visit http://www.heartshare.org/. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @heartshare and like us on Facebook.
Founded
1914
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Human Services
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York
Heartshare nurtures and empowers children and adults diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders, through educational, life skills and vocational training, residential, case management, recreational, family support and health care services. Heartshare affiliates include The Heartshare School, which offers quality education and therapies to children with autism, Heartshare Wellness, which provides critical health services to those with developmental disabilities and case management to those with chronic conditions, and Heartshare St. Vincent’s Services (HSVS), which supports children, adults and families living in crisis due to experiences with poverty. Since its founding in 1914, Heartshare has expanded its reach to over 100 program sites in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, as well as to 61 of the 62 New York counties through energy grants to low-income families.
Heartshare is proud that 90% of all revenue goes directly to its programs and services. Heartshare is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children and is a Better Business Bureau Accredited Charity. For more information, visit http://www.heartshare.org/. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @heartshare and like us on Facebook.
Founded
1914
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Human Services
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York
