Home Finding Coordinator (ORR) (Bilingual Spanish)
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HEARTSHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK
New York, NY, US
Summary
The Home Finding Coordinator ensures that foster homes for unaccompanied minors are safe, healthy, and compliant with all federal and state regulations. They provide ongoing support, training, and guidance to foster families while maintaining accurate case records and documentation.
Job Description
Job Details: Job Location: Offsite - Brooklyn, NY, Position Type: Full-Time, Education Level: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent, Salary Range: $30.21 - $32.06Hourly, Travel Percentage: Up to 75%, Job Shift: Day, Heartshare St. Vincent’s Services (HSVS) Nuevo Camino program is dedicated to providing 38 unaccompanied minors, ages 5-12, with a supportive, nurturing environment through transitional foster homes, daily education Monday - Friday, and supportive wrap-around services in the Brooklyn section of New York City. Our program is rooted in ensuring that service delivery is trauma-informed, culturally appropriate, and tailored to the needs of each child while maintaining all program requirements of ORR.
Home Finding Coordinators ensure that every youth in transitional care has a safe, healthy, and nurturing foster home. Home Finders ensure that all agency, city, state, and federal regulations and requirements are strictly followed, and accurately documented. Home Finders ensure that foster families feel supported and valued while providing loving care for every child in their home. Home Finders provide training and guidance to foster families, to help them to raise happy, healthy, and secure children.
Essential Functions and Primary Responsibilities of Position:
Completing detailed, accurate, and timely written reports on all homes assigned to them, including annual reauthorization narratives, home studies for newly trained and kinship homes, and addenda for all homes, as needed.
Ensuring that all foster homes on their workload have foster home case record files that are complete, accurate, tidy, and audit-ready at all times.
Being the point of contact for all of the foster families on their individual workloads,
Assist and support foster parents in meeting challenges and achieving success, through participation in administrative meetings, referral for additional services, or other interventions, as necessary.
Receive training and certification allowing home finder to deliver required foster parent training and subsequently deliver said training as requested.
Participate in required ORR – Nuevo Camino training per the federal and state mandates.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree from four-year college or equivalent
2 years of similar experience
BiLingual Spanish required
License Needed: Driver’s License.
Experience in child welfare/case management strongly preferred.
Prior experience working with refugee and/or immigrant populations preferred.
Stable judgment as well as sensitivity to various cultures and the unique history of refugees.
Exceptionally organized and detail-oriented
Successful in a fast-paced work environment
Commitment to Nuevo Camino's core mission and values and an ability to model those values in relationships with colleagues and partners, and commitment to empowering refugees and migrants.
Benefits
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.
Wellhub 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 LinkedInYouTube Instagram Facebook
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HeartShare Human Services of New York nurtures and empowers children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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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
