EFFC- Social Work Supervisor

JOB DESCRIPTION

POSITION TITLE: Social Work Supervisor

PROGRAM: Enhanced Family Foster Care (EFFC)

DEPARTMENT: Family Permanency Services

REPORTS TO: EFFC Director of Social Services

EFFC Program Description

Catholic Guardian Services' Enhanced Family Foster Care (EFFC) program provides family permanency services to children and families served within the program. Our program teams are interdisciplinary and are composed of Family Specialists/Case Planners, Social Work Supervisors, Directors of Socio Services, Parent Advocates, Reunification Workers and Licensed Socio-Therapists.

Our work includes the implementation of evidence-based models to address trauma, mental health and other challenges faced by children and families. We successfully provide wrap-around services and support during and after foster care placement by having direct access to Catholic Guardian Services' portfolio of social services and behavioral health programs. These programs include children's health home care management services, evidence-based preventive services programs, outpatient mental health services, career development and job readiness services for adolescent. Our Enhanced Family Foster Care Teams closely collaborate with these programs to ensure ongoing support to our children and families.

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership and supervision to four Case Planners/Family Specialists and a Parent Advocate.
• Timely approves assigned employees' electronic time sheets, approves or disapproves PTOs and completes employee performance evaluations.
• Regularly conducts individual and group supervisory conferences to review caseload management, activity and progress.
• Participates in training and consultation sessions to develop skills in evidence-based and evidence-informed models and ensures that direct reports effectively utilize these models and do so with fidelity.
• Attends internal and external meetings as necessary.
• Participates in the recruitment and hiring of program staff and in disciplining and terminating employees within their unit in accordance with CGS policy.
• Monitors development and implementation of program improvement plans of assigned staff.
• Maintains a professional and collaborative approach while interacting with the Socio-Therapist Team.
• Provides leadership to the planning team to expedite safe family reunification, reduce step-ups and lateral moves, and expedite adoptions and KinGap finalizations.
• Ensures that Family Team Conferences (SPRs) are scheduled and held by identified due dates.
• Participates in family team meetings and ensure that Case Planners develop skills in understanding, assessing and engaging families, children and foster parents in the service plan process and create workable and realistic service plans.
• Ensures that the Case Planners/Family Specialists engage families and effectively delivery services for purposes of reunification, addressing issues which necessitated placement.
• Ensures assigned team's participation and completion of all required and mandated trainings.
• Responsible for emergency case activity in the absence of the Case Planner/Family Specialist for any reason and for submission of required reports.
• Participate in the rotation of the program's emergency phone coverage after normal business hours and holidays.
• Perform other duties as needed.

COMPLIANCE OVERSIGHT

Supervisors are instrumental in making sure that our casework practice and service delivery are aligned with the agency's and ACS' performance expectations. As such the agency's expectation is that all EFFC Supervisors create and implement client contact and documentation compliance plans for their assigned team that:

• Ensures compliance with all required contacts with parents, foster parents, and children/youth particularly-

• Family time and separated sibling visits that take place ongoing, in compliance with ACS' family time policy and the level of supervision of these visits are continually assessed.

• Child-case planner face-to-face contact by 15th of each month and bringing missed contacts to the attention of the Deputy/Program Director.

• Comply with all National Youth Transitional Database (NYTD) entries in Connections. This includes updating education tabs, making sure that ILS service goals are listed in all FASPs (or Plan Amendment) for all eligible youths, and documenting tribal affiliation progress notes.
• Ensure the timely completion and submission of-
  • • Family Assessment Service Plans (FASP)
    • Permanency Hearing Report (PHR)
    • PYA Discharge Checklists (trial discharged and final discharge)
    • Transitional Plans
    • Sex trafficking screening in the Child Trafficking Database (CTDB)
    • MHCU hospital admission and discharge notifications to ACS
    • Foster care special/exceptional rate initial and reauthorization requests
    • Continuation of Care and Support Beyond age 21 (CCS21+) applications as needed
    • Annual credit checks for all eligible youths
    • Incident reports (internal and external reports)
• Monitor, track, and ensure that their Case Planners/Family Specialists are prepared for and attend all Permanency Hearing thereby expediting permanency and preventing findings of No Reasonable Efforts (NRE).

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in Social Work; LMSW preferred
• Minimum two (2) years experience with families and children
• Experience in Child Welfare
• Bi-lingual (Spanish) a plus
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including periodic evenings and weekends, and ability to travel to community settings throughout NYC
• NYS Driver's license preferred

COMPETENCIES

• Competence in assessing family dynamics and in providing short term mental health treatment. Experience in making rapid clinical and family assessments in a community-based setting, as well as, knowledge of the foster care system.
• Must possess a deep interest and concern for the preservation of families and a thorough knowledge of all areas of ACS standards and regulations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of best practices in the field of serving families and children involved with the child welfare system.
• Proven professional skills, including meeting deadlines, ensuring compliance with agency policy and procedures, and overseeing complete and timely maintenance of agency records, in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.