Organization Overview: Sheltering Arms strengthens the education, wellbeing, and development of high-need children, adults, and families across the New York metro area. We serve nearly 20,000 people a year from the South Bronx to Far Rockaway. Through compassion, innovation, and partnership, we respond to our community’s greatest needs and enable individuals to reach the greatest heights of their potential. Joining our team is an opportunity to collaborate with hundreds of dedicated colleagues who represent diverse backgrounds and talents as we work together to make a measurable impact for our neighbors in need. Every role at Sheltering Arms brings with it new opportunities for advancement and development so that team members can achieve their professional goals while helping others reach for theirs.

Job Summary: Children and youth in foster care and their caregivers may require additional support to address the multifaceted needs of this population. Using the trauma-informed Functional Family Therapy - Foster Care (FFT-FC) Model, the Foster Care Sociotherapist will work as part of an interdisciplinary team to provide individualized, coordinated assessment and care that will support the safety, well-being and permanency needs of children in family-based foster care.

Essential Functions

• Manage a caseload of 8-10 children designated as therapeutic
• Engage families via phone to ensure their availability and willingness to meet
• Engage the primary caregivers, which may include biological or foster parents or other legal guardian(s), develop and implement behavioral plans with the child, foster parents and family to optimize the child’s functioning and mental health in the family and community.
• Maintain weekly phone contact or more with the caregiver and child as needed.

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  Conduct FFT-FC Family Therapy Sessions in office, client’s home, or other designated locations
• Enter data into Care4 data platform within 24-48 hours of session
• Participate in all Family Team Conferences and other meetings regarding children on caseload.
• Complete all required FFT training including, but not limited to, online modules, clinical consultation visits, clinical trainings, and weekly consultation sessions
• Additional related functions as needed

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Social Work, Counseling or related field and license or limited permit required; minimum two years’ experience working with high-risk adolescents or children in foster care strongly preferred
• Willingness to work outside of regular business hours, including evenings and weekends, to meet with clients at times convenient to them
• Ability to work from a strengths-based, trauma-informed lens
• Strong organizational, time management, and technical skills
• Valid NY, NJ or CT driver’s license preferred
• Bilingual Spanish-speaking preferred

Salary: 62,000-67,500

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

It is the policy of Sheltering Arms Children and Family Services that the Agency wholly complies with the equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to an individual’s perceived or actual race, creed, color, national origin, alienate, citizenship status, gender, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or veteran status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, layoff and termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.

Physical Requirements: Must have the ability to complete all standard administrative and support tasks including but not limited to climbing up and down stairs, operation of computers/phones/fax/printer/copy machine. Must be able to travel from the various locations and sites of Sheltering Arms Children and Family Services.

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