Lmsw Acs Consultant - New York, United States - The Child Center of NY

The Child Center of NY

Verified Company

New York, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

The Child Center of NY strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.

Founded in 1953, The Child Center of NY has become a powerful community presence throughout the city.

With 50 locations and 100 programs in NYC's most under-served communities, our 1,000+ results-oriented professionals make a difference for more than 40,000 children and their families each year.

Summary

The Mental Health/Domestic Violence staff person will function as consultant to ACS, under the supervision of the TCCNY Team Coordinator/Project Director and will be located full time within one of the ACS Field Office Sites located in New York City.

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Essential Functions:

Conducting formal and informal consultations with ACS Child Protective Specialists on their cases which include mental health and/or domestic violence concerns. The CCS consultant will assist in assessing the presence of these concerns and help determine the specific level of interventions required to strengthen the family and reduce risk to the children, providing concrete tools and casework guidance.
Consultant will meet productivity requirements including number of formal consultations per week and writing reports for every consultation, within an acceptable time frame.
Attending Family Team Meetings, case conferences and child safety conferences as required and approved by the team coordinator. Direct client contact is to model or demonstrate effective interventions and engagement strategies for the benefit of caseworkers or other ACS staff.
Developing and implementing mental health or domestic violence trainings for ACS Child Protective Specialists, supervisors, and managers. Topic to be determined by the needs of the field office in collaboration with the consultant. Curriculum will be written and specific, and creative in approach to engage ACS staff in learning and transfer of knowledge.
Attending case reviews as an important training tool, as per request of ACS deputy directors and approval of the Team Coordinator.
Attending bimonthly CCS citywide mental health and domestic violence consultants' meetings.
Developing/maintaining knowledge of communitybased resources for referral for mental health and/or domestic violence services.
Occasional field visits when necessary to assist with engaging clients.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Minimum Qualifications:

LCSW, LMSW, LMFT, LMHC with at least three years clinical experience preferred
MSW with three years' experience will be considered, but they must receive a limited permit and be licensed within a year of hire.
Excellent writing skills
Excellent engagement skills
Ability to work as part of a team
Ability to understand, respect and work in a host environment
Word, excel, power point skills required.
Ability to plan and carry out assignments independently.
Ability to prioritize, adhere to timelines and multitask.

Job Behavioral Expectations:

Creating and maintaining a safe space with children and their family members.
Maintain regular consistent and professional attendance, punctuality, personal appearance, and adherence to relevant health & safety procedures.
Safe and successful performance, including meeting productivity standards.
Maintain an understanding of the principles, methods and processes needed to perform the job. Attends staff meetings, seminars and inservice training as assigned.
Demonstrates the ability to complete work in an acceptable manner by the time and/or date established with accuracy, neatness and thoroughness and mínimal amount of errors.
Maintain established departmental policies and procedures including maintain strict confidentiality and adherence to all HIPAA guidelines at all times.

Physical demands and work environment:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to walk, sit for long period of time; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or control; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear.

Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment: