Social Worker

Job Title : Social Worker

Employment Type : Contract

Work Hours : 40 hrs. / week

Work site : 100% Onsite

Location : 300 South Rd, Brooktondale, NY 14817

Job Duration : 7 Months

Closing : 11 / 14 / 2025.

Position Overview :

The Social Worker will work directly with court-placed youth (ages 12-20) residing in New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) secure, limited-secure, and / or non-secure residential facilities. This position plays an essential role in ensuring both the physical security and emotional safety of youth and staff while fostering a professional, therapeutic, and supportive environment.

Social Workers (Youth Support Specialists) are part of a multidisciplinary team responsible for maintaining a healthy, structured facility, supporting youth development, and assisting in their rehabilitation and transition toward positive community reintegration.

Job Duties :

• Establish a relationship of professionalism, confidence, safety, and trust with youth and other staff from different racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, physical ability, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression (SOGIE) and / or socio-economic backgrounds.
• Supervise and monitor youth, which, depending on a youth's clinical needs, may include 1-to-1 supervision.
• ctively participate as a member of a youth's support team. A support team is a treatment-focused group of professional and para-professional staff who work together to address the emotional and behavioral needs and goal of youth.
• Be confident in engaging with people who may be under physical and / or emotional stress.
• Employ graduated harm reduction strategies while supervising youth. This includes correcting, and in some cases, verbally or physically intervening when a youth displays unsafe behaviors toward themselves or other youth and staff. Harm reduction requires that a YSS learn to recognize personal or situational flags that could lead to conflict or harm, provide positive mentorship to youth, and help youth work on their own interpersonal skills and use of self-regulation strategies.
• Take opportunities to improve the well-being of the facility community by being collaborative and informed.
• Supervise and / or assist youth during recreation and education activities, as well as take on various, as-needed assignments
• Establish and maintain positive, professional, and appropriate relationships with youths' families and loved ones.
• ssist youth in achieving education, work readiness, and community transition goals.

Minimum Education and Work Experience :

Candidates must meet one of the following qualifications :

institution, camp, school, community center, youth rehabilitation program, mental health or correctional institution, or residential center.

ppropriate verifiable part-time experience will be accepted on a prorated basis.

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