Urgently Need Social Work Supervisor in Brooklyn, NY
Job title: Social Work Supervisor
Company: Good Shepherd Services
Job description: About Us:
Good Shepherd Services is a leading multi-service agency with more than 85 programs that serve over 30,000 youth and families each year and builds on their strengths to help them gain skills for success. At Good Shepherd we respect the dignity and worth of every person and reject intolerance, inequity and injustice in whatever form it may take. Voted one of the top 100 places to work in NYC by Crains New York, Good Shepherd Services offers a fantastic work environment, a collaborative team dedicated to fulfilling our mission, and an amazing array of benefits. Join our team and help make a difference! Benefits:
Benefits/Perks:
- Tuition Assistance Program (Including Reimbursement for LMSW exam)
- Ability to work towards LCSW licensure hours
- Generous paid time off (Including 5 Self-Care Days/Floating Holidays, 12 Sick Days, 15 Vacation Days, and 11 Holidays)
- Healthcare Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, and Pet Care)
- 403(b) Plan (GSS contributes 3% of your salary to your 403(b) plan after 3 years of service, with contributions increasing over time)
- Passionate about providing high quality services to families in child welfare
- A lifetime learner, continuously developing their clinical skills and ability using the FFT-TCM model
- Dedicated to modeling strength-based, trauma-informed practice with staff and families
- Possesses a strength focused approach with families, colleagues, direct reports, and program and agency stakeholders
- Committed to providing high quality supervision with a coaching and growth mindset
- Centered on developing all levels of staff in their respective roles within the FFT-TCM model
- Focused on performance management in order to ensure that direct reports regularly exceed expectations
- Committed to the Good Shepherd Services mission, vision, and values, possessing and demonstrating cultural humility
- Work closely with Program Director and Supervisory team in overseeing the day-to-day operation of the FFT-TCM prevention program.
- Manage and oversee the assigned supervisory unit by providing guidance and direct supervision over the implementation of clinical services related to the FFT-TCM model, ensuring treatment fidelity.
- Participate in all FFT-TCM model training, supervision, consultation activities, and staff meetings.
- Build relationships and actively collaborate with community stakeholders including ACS child protection staff, attorneys, school personnel, and medical providers to ensure cooperation and success for families.
- Help to recruit, hire, onboard, and supervise varied levels of staff to ensure high-quality performance in all areas including counseling, case management, and completion of accurate and timely documentation.
- Occasionally accompany workers during home visits, safety conferences, Court hearings, and counseling sessions as needed.
- Respond to internal and external requests for data and case information.
- Actively collaborate to connect participants to other GSS programs and services as needed and appropriate.
- Represent program needs, concerns, and perspectives at all required ACS, model-related, and GSS meetings and trainings.
- Handle case-related crises with professionalism, urgency, and care, including incidents involving reports to the State Central Registry.
- Coordinate intake assessment and case assignment process with other leadership staff, including participating in ACS Initial Child Safety Conferences to engage families for FFT-TCM services.
- Conduct weekly group supervision for assigned team (including student interns as needed) to assure adherence to model and program principles, ensuring that direct reports achieve engagement with all key participants.
- Provide at least 60 minutes of individualized, weekly supervision for each direct report and/or student intern to ensure that program staff are adhering to the model and striving for excellence in their clinical and administrative work.
- Carry assigned caseload of two (2) families, providing direct clinical treatment using methods and interventions consistent with FFT-TCM model.
- Conduct family assessments including reviewing referral information, identifying and engaging key participants, and identifying systemic strengths and weaknesses; provide individualized case planning with all assigned families.
- Maintain clear and concise documentation of treatment efforts that promote and demonstrate compliance with FFT-TCM in all approved databases.
- Complete clear, concise, and comprehensive monthly supervisory case review notes that offer supervisory guidance and expertise for each family supervised.
- Maintain oversight for meeting FFT-TCM model fidelity measures, contractual obligations and mandates, ACS performance-based targets, program utilization requirements, and casework contacts using PROMIS, Connections, and Care4 databases.
- Monitor, review, and approve the work of assigned direct reports including their day-to-day documentation, progress notes, FASPs, Court reports, other assessments, and statistical records.
- Ensure that adequate safety and risk assessments are conducted for all children and families.
- Conduct annual performance evaluation reviews of direct reports and evaluate workers training needs, providing individualized support, coaching, and referrals for training.
- MSW or related clinical, licensable Masters degree required (art therapy; mental health counseling); LMSW Candidates highly Encouraged to Apply
- Two years of supervisory experience in a child welfare or other clinical setting preferred
- Bilingual - English/Spanish preferred
- Must have strong organizational, administrative, interpersonal, and clinical skills
- Must be able to work 1- 2 evenings per week in order to provide supervisory support to staff
- Must have strong inquiry skills and ability to seek and share internal and external best practices in order to achieve program excellence and FFT-TCM model adherence
- Must have a commitment to work from a strength based, trauma-informed & youth and family development perspective
- FFT knowledge or training a plus