Case Planner

Job Details

Job Location

66 Boerum Place, 66 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 - Brooklyn, NY

Position Type

Full-Time

Education Level

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent

Salary Range

$25.85 - $29.21 Hourly

Travel Percentage

Up to 75%

Job Shift

Day

Description

We are seeking a Case Planner to assist each child with obtaining permanency, maintain safety and a healthy well-being, while in care. The Case Planner is responsible for coordinating and monitoring services for clients and is the liaison to ACS and all community resources as they relate to discharge and reunification. As a core member of the team, the Case Planner engages with other disciplines such as outpatient mental health providers, medical providers, school personnel and clinicians.

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions of Position :

• Creates, in partnership with child, biological family and foster family, service plans which address safety, behavioral, educational, psychological and permanency needs.
• Monitors safety, well-being, and progress against other critical outcomes by facilitating regular casework contacts and by documenting the same in progress notes and other case documentation.
• Schedules and supervises mandated visits between child and natural family; conducts ongoing required interviews in person with child, natural family and foster family; independently makes all related field visits, to homes, schools, courts, prisons, hospitals and other sites as case may require.
• Attends weekly, at minimum, supervision with the supervisor to present and discuss case situations and provide update on status of current work; carries out supervisor directions regarding planning and service follow up.
• Attends all Family Court hearings on assigned cases; provides testimony regarding case status and Agency position; follows up on court directives.
• Participates actively in Family Team Conferences and other meetings to advance permanency for children and families.
• Works closely with Integrated Services (Medical, Mental Health and Case Management) to ensure that the medical and mental health needs of children and the biological family, are being monitored appropriately, necessary medical training is being received and provided to foster parents and birth parents, services are being provided according to treatment needs and external collaborations are occurring as needed in order to ensure safety, permanency and wellbeing.
• Utilizes individual and unit data collected by the city, state, federal and agency data and accountability departments, in order to measure / monitor performance and ensure that all outcomes are being met.

One Time Sign-On Bonus of $2000

Qualifications

Benefits

At HeartShare we offer a comprehensive benefit package based on full-time / part-time status. You can expect :

HeartShare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). If you need to request accommodation during the recruiting process, please reach out toLeaves@heartshare.org.

About HeartShare

Who WE ARE :

For over 150 years, Heartshare has been dedicated to championing and empowering New Yorkers society has too often overlooked and underestimated.

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HeartShare Human Services of New York nurtures and empowers children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.