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Salary range: $64,142.00 – $209,971.00

THIS POSITION IS ONLY OPEN TO CANDIDATES WHO ARE PERMANENT (NOT PROVISIONAL) IN THE CIVIL SERVICE TITLE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL SERVICES

THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY OF $105,000.00.

The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of children and families through child welfare and juvenile justice services and community supports. ACS manages community-based supports and foster care services and provides subsidized childcare vouchers. ACS child protection staff respond to allegations of child maltreatment. In juvenile justice, ACS oversees detention, placement, and programs for youth in the community.

The Child and Family Specialist determines level of care for every child that enters the NSCC. For the year 2023, over 2,300 children were admitted to NSCC that required Level of Care assessment and over 500 replacement cases required program area review for replacements. Clinical Managers monitored these tasks of CFS in addition to monitoring/reviewing CFS documentation [status reports/progress notes/referrals] for all onsite children considered as long stayers, ensured CFS maintained daily/weekly progress notes, provided onsite supportive counseling, and intervened in daily child/youth engagement and crisis de-escalation. Clinical manager monitors all CFS assignment to the nursery, preteen male/female and teen male/female populations carrying an average of 20 children based on child’s length of stay.

The Clinical Manager provides direct supervision to onsite Child and Family Specialist [CFS] who assess each child’s social and emotional wellbeing. The Clinical Manager ensures trauma-informed assessments, short-term supportive counseling, service referrals and placement recommendations are provided to each young person entering NSCC. They provide the critical oversight needed to guide and support CFS in the creation and monitoring of the care plans for each child, meeting regularly with assigned children, preparing children for placement interviews, and attending/facilitate planning meetings.

The Clinical Manager is responsible for:

• Supervise the CFS staff, working to move the division towards a leadership role in assuming primary responsibility for all children at the Children’s Center.
• Provide guidance and support to the CFS in the creation and monitoring of the care plans for each child, meeting regularly with assigned children, preparing children for placement interviews, and attending discharge planning meetings, etc.
• Work collaboratively with childcare and placement staff to move children to appropriate placements by ensuring that all necessary documentation is not only completed timely and accurately, but is written from strength-based prospective, providing pertinent and detailed information.
• Establish regular supervision with CFS to support, coach and model the shift in practice as we move toward an enhanced therapeutic milieu.
• Work with CFS on conference cases, including facilitation of team groups, participating in daily rounds and other conferences as necessary.
• Collaborate with the Senior Director of Social Work on training needs and division improvements.
• Work with Commercially Sexually Exploited Children Consultants (CSEC) to ensure that serve needs are being met and that the division is following all related guidelines and mandates.
• Facilitates conferences/meetings with NSCC team members, service providers, community members and other ACS staff when necessary.
• Consults with professionals from different disciplines to facilitate a multi-disciplinary team approach of care within the NSCC.
• Ensures safety, risk and permanency concerns are identified and addressed during team meetings and external conferences with service providers.
• Serves as program liaisons to ACS Field Office, Family Court Legal Services (FCLS) Foster Care, Mental Health and Community Based Providers as related to placement and behavioral concerns of the child.

TO APPLY:
Please go to www.cityjobs.nyc.gov or www.nyc.gov/ess for current NYC employees and search for Job ID #634752

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NOTE: ONLY THOSE CANDIDATES UNDER CONSIDERATION WILL BE CONTACTED

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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.

Minimum Qualifications

55a Program

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

Residency Requirement

Additional Information