THIS POSITION IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL ACS APPLICANTS.
THIS POSITION IS OPEN ONLY TO EMPLOYEES CURRENTLY SERVING IN THE PERMANENT CIVIL
SERVICE TITLE OF CHILD WELFARE SPECIALIST SUPERVISOR.
The Administration for Childrens 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 juvenile justice ACS oversees detention placement and programs for youth in the community.
The Division of Child Protection (DCP) is charged with investigating all allegations of child abuse and maltreatment that the city receives from the New York Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment. The Division of Child Protection encompasses Child Protective and Placement Services. Child Protective Services include the Child Protective Borough Offices Family Preservation and Family Services Unit Emergency Childrens Services (ECS) and the Office of Special Investigations (OSI).
In each DCP borough and program office an Administration or Admin team provides a catalog of critical support functions enabling child protective staff to focus on supporting our children and families. Each Application Unit is overseen by an Application Supervisor who is responsible for quality assurance and resolving issues within their Applications Unit. Each Application Supervisor monitors the work of subordinates; coach subordinates to correct errors and minimize potential for future errors; prioritizes cases and identifies and flags special concerns based upon subject-matter expertise in social work and clinical practice; and ensures that pending case assignment rates are appropriately equalized among the zone and Borough or Program child protective units.
Under the general supervision of the Child Protective Manager the Application Supervisor will be responsible for the following :
Preferred Skills
The preferred candidate should possess the following :
automated child welfare systems
position
CHILD WELFARE SPECIALIST SUPER - 52370
Qualifications :
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university 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 at least 12 of which must have been in one of these disciplines and 30 semester credits toward a Masters of Social Work or a graduate degree in a related field and at least eighteen months of child welfare casework experience.
Note : 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.
Additional Information :
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 individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
Remote Work : No
Employment Type : Full-time
Key Skills
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Experience : years
Vacancy : 1
Application • Bronx, New York, USA