Returning Candidate? Log back in! Sociotherapist Location US-NY-Bronx Job ID 2024-2885 Job Family Child Welfare Job Type Full-Time Shift Days Monday-Friday Shift Hours 9:00am-5:00pm Salary Range 56,100.00 - 59,600.00 Hours Per Week 35 Overview

Fostering Talent, Changing Lives

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence.  We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help ur neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

The Socio-Therapist (ST) primary role is to support foster parents in managing children’s emotional/behavioral issues; provide support around sustainability in the foster home by developing and implementing individual “Trauma Systemic Therapy” [TST] action plans, based on the core model for Treatment Family Foster Care. The Socio-Therapist will conduct weekly home visits to foster parents and children and ensure that the TST model is implemented; make referrals for children/youth to community-based organizations (substance abuse, mental health, etc.) and collaborate with TFFC Case Planners, school/day treatment programs, and NYF treatment team staff to develop corresponding treatment plans. The ST will assist as needed to achieve safety, well-being, and permanency. The ST will participate in all treatment plans, case management, and clinical reviews. The ST will take a primary/secondary role during all crises and ensure follow-up after such events. The ST shall engage medical and/or mental health providers in the case planning for the child’s medical and mental health services. The ST will help the foster parents develop and reinforce the behavior modification program to achieve stability for the youth. Track and monitor when youth attend outside mental health clinics to ensure NYF receives all necessary reports. The ST will participate in behavior management training, TST training, and must be available for emergencies, some weeknights, and some weekends.

Salary 56,100.00 

Responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Engage with foster parents and foster youth using motivational interviewing techniques and assess for safety and risk factors for children currently in care and in planning for permanency.

• Provide intensive training, consultation and supportive services to children and youth with identified Axis V diagnoses who with additional resources can remain in a family setting and achieve positive growth and development.

• Conduct behavior modification trainings with therapeutic foster parents using the ABC model.

• Implement evidence-based and evidence-informed models including Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) and ABC action plans with foster parents, and youth. This includes weekly home visits, participating in family conferences and treatment team meetings.

• Responsible for planning and engaging youth in therapeutic recreational and social activities.

• Develop safety plans and utilize crisis intervention skills to de-escalate conflicts in a trauma-informed approach

• Provide close monitoring of medication(s) (Pill count)

• Attend court when necessary.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Maintain access to Connections and other database systems for entering confidential information as required by New York state, city and Foundling’s compliance guidelines

• Timely documentation of weekly progress notes via Connections

• Attend team meetings, interdisciplinary treatment team conferences, TST workshops, case consultations and individual and group coaching

• Maintain a caseload of 8 children on average

• Conduct weekly home visits to foster parents and youth (total of 4 visits a month)

• 2 of the visits must be in the foster home/2 in the community; and maintain a visitor log when in the FH.

Qualifications

 

BSW degree and/or Bachelor degreeSkills:Assessment SkillsComputer literacyExcellent written and verbal communicationListening SkillsAdvocacy Skills Education Required Bachelor’s Degree from a U.S. accredited educational institution or Credential Evaluation for a non-U.S. educational institution Options ApplyApplySubmit a ReferralRefer Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later. Share on your newsfeed Application FAQs

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