IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU HAVE TAKEN AND PASSED THE OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAM#2023/3004 FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE TITLE LISTED ABOVE TO AVOID BEING "BUMPED" OUT OF YOUR POSITION WHEN THE ELIGIBLE LIST FOR THIS TITLE IS ESTABLISHED. PERMANENT CHILD AND FAMILY SPECIALISTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of New York City’s children and families by providing child welfare, juvenile justice, and early care services. In juvenile justice, ACS manages and funds services including detention and placement, intensive community-based alternatives for youth, and support services for families.

Under general direction, the Case Manager Specialist at the Horizon Juvenile Center is responsible for the intake and overall coordination of care for youth admitted to an ACS secure and specialized secure detention facility, including individual and group counseling, the facilitation of youth-family interactions and youth-attorney contact, related crisis support, completion of adjustment reports for the Courts, discharge planning, and re-entry support to effectively ensure the adjustment of juvenile delinquents, juvenile offenders, and adolescent offenders and continuity of service, upon release.

Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
- Provide daily case management services (e.g., including youth and family intakes, counseling, monitor and facilitate youth-family and youth-attorney contacts, youths’ access to telephone calls and correspondence, coordination of family and attorney visits, related crisis support, referrals to services, discharge planning, re-entry support), within a juvenile detention facility, to youth pending court proceedings and/or sentencing for either felony or misdemeanor offenses.
- Review preliminary intake information, including interview reports, assessments, observation reports, incident reports, and behavior management reports, and confers with other professionals involved in the case, where appropriate.
- Maintain communication with parents and guardians of youth to provide regular updates concerning their status during remand to an ACS secure or specialized secure detention facility, making social service referrals, connecting them to provider agencies and community-based organizations that assist them in navigating entitlement benefits, housing, and other resources.
- Perform the required completion and maintenance of case records, including intakes, adjustment reports and other documentation requested by the Courts, progress notes, contemporaneous data entry in the detention case management system of record, and internal monthly, quarterly and annual reports (on request).
- Collaborate with other units and departments within the detention milieu as a member of an interdisciplinary team to ensure the proper coordination of activities and events, including classification, visitation, education and vocational programming, medical and mental health services, enrichment programming and recreation, religious services, and wellness programming, as well as the consistent implementation of the facility’s behavior management program.
- Maintain collaborative relationships with entities, persons, and agencies mutually responsible for the permanency and well-being of youth in ACS’ care and custody, schedule and facilitate their access to remanded youth and actively participate in the development of safety plans, care plans, placement, permanency and transition plans.
- Together with Unit and DYFJ leadership, maintain data collection, tracking and reporting that informs the identification of admission trends, review of incidents, facility needs and capacity, policy development, and special projects.

Note: Candidate must be willing to work weekends and holidays, and travel to/attend meetings in the community.

A Masters Degree in Social Work from an accredited school of social work and
1. A valid New York State Registration as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and at least one year of full-time, satisfactory, post-graduate experience that includes substantial experience in one or more of the following modalities of practice: facilitation of family team conferences or family group decision-making meetings utilizing a conferencing model which emphasizes family engagement and consensus based decision-making; clinical group work with children, youth, parents or individual families; or the conduct of professional training on topics related to child and family services; or

2. A valid New York State Registration as a Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW) and at least three years of the experience required in "1" above. Up to two years of this experience may have been in the supervision of social work practice areas described in "1" above; or

3. At least three years of the experience required in "1" above. A valid New York State Registration as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Master of Social Work license (LMSW) must be obtained within one year of appointment.

Note: Employees who fail to obtain their LCSW or LMSW within one year after appointment may have their probationary periods extended for no more than six months. Failure to obtain the LCSW or LMSW by the end of the probationary period will result in dismissal.

Note: At least one year of the required experience described in "1", "2" and "3" above must have been obtained in the last five years.

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This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.