Intake and Assessment Specialist

THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY OF $60,428.00.

THIS POSITION IS ONLY OPEN TO CANDIDATES WHO ARE PERMANENT (NOT PROVISIONAL) IN THE CIVIL SERVICE TITLE LISTED ABOVE.

The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of New York City’s children and families by providing child welfare, juvenile justice, and early care services. In juvenile justice, ACS manages and funds services including detention and placement, intensive community-based alternatives for youth, and support services for families.

Under administrative direction, the Intake and Assessment Specialist will work within the DYFJ’s continuum to assess and identify the needs and strengths of youth for post-adjudicated placement.

Specific duties will include but are not limited to:

- Perform day-to-day operations including the intake, assessment, matching, and placement of youth who are adjudicated as juvenile delinquents in New York City Family Court and placed with ACS under the Close-to-Home initiative.

- Once a judge issues a dispositional order, ensure a timely comprehensive intake and assessment including review and synthesis of pertinent court, legal, health, education, and social history documents, assessment of youth and family needs and strengths, coordinate collateral interviews in detention or in the community with youth, families, providers, and ACS personnel prior to the youth’s transfer from detention to residential placement, and appropriate match of youth to providers that can best cultivate their strengths and interests and address needs and risks over a period of no more than 15 calendar days, or as otherwise required by law.

- Manage and maintain ongoing relationships and collaboration (e.g., meetings) with DYFJ’s Confirm Unit, DYFJ’s Placement and Permanency Unit, detention DYFJ and contracted staffs, attorneys, and court staff to ensure that information is relayed in a timely and contemporaneous manner and that all relevant screenings and assessments are completed and matching of a youth to providers and transfer of responsibility and monitoring of youth to ACS-contracted placement providers and Placement and Permanency staff occur in a timely manner.

- Engage with DYFJ’s Detention, Operations, Placement and Permanency, Planning, Policy and Performance, other ACS cross-divisional units, and ACS-contracted provider agencies to ensure appropriate coordination, oversight, monitoring, and technical.

- Maintain an ongoing case tracking, data collection, and reporting system that informs the identification of placement trends, review of incidents, placement needs and capacity.

- Conduct interviews of families in their homes and other sites in the community, including frequent visits to off-site facilities where youth reside.

- Provide consistent evening coverage to maximize engagement of working families.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Section 424-A of the New York Social Services Law requires an authorized agency to inquire whether a candidate for employment with child-caring responsibilities has been the subject of a child abuse and maltreatment report.

TO APPLY

This job has been reposted. Previous applicants do not need to reapply.

APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY USING ONE OF THE OPTIONS BELOW:

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Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

CHILD WELFARE SPECIALIST - 52369

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by 24 semester credits in one or a combination of the following fields: social work, psychology, sociology, human services, criminal justice, education (including early childhood), nursing, or cultural anthropology, with at least 12 of these credits in one discipline.

Requirements for Assignment Level II
a. Upon satisfactory completion of six months of training and experience at Assignment Level I, an employee shall be assigned to Assignment Level II.
b. Upon completion of one year of satisfactory experience at Assignment Level II of Child Welfare Specialist and satisfactory completion of the probationary period an employee shall receive no less than the minimum salary after 18 months in title.
c. To be appointed directly to Assignment Level II, a candidate must have, in addition to meeting the minimum qualification requirements set forth above, one year of satisfactory child welfare casework experience.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.