Case Planner (EFFC)

About the role

We are looking for a dynamic and compassionate Case Planner to join our team. In this role you will work towards timely permanency planning for children and youth in foster care. Reports to: Foster Care Supervisor. Location: 7 West Burnside Avenue, Bronx, New York 10453.

Responsibilities

• Assess and monitor for safety and risk.
• Establish immediate contact with families of the children who are placed into our care, and with their foster families.
• Conduct required casework contacts with the child, parent, foster parent and collateral contacts (schools, service providers, medical personnel, mental health practitioners, and substance abuse counselors).
• Make assessment-based referrals as necessary to meet the needs of the child and/or parent.
• Visit family and child, as often as mandated and/or necessary to gather social history, to assess family strengths and concerns, and to assess existing problems in relation to the reason for placement.
• Coordinate and supervise all visits between the family and child along with separate sibling visits.
• Share responsibilities with agency team for the permanency planning of each child.
• Locate resources and make referrals to any resource that would provide aid to the family and child.
• Evaluate child’s adjustment in foster home and monitor educational and behavioral performance at home and in school.
• Monitor foster parents in terms of their ability to meet the needs of the child in their home, and make recommendations regarding future use of the home, in conjunction with the Home finding Department.
• Adherence to the KEEP (Keeping Foster and Kinship Parents Supported and Trained), PTC (Parenting Through Change) and YDSC (Youth Development Skills Coaching) manuals.
• Make efficient and creative use of training manuals.
• Capacity to work within the fidelity guidelines of the KEEP/PTC interventions while delivering the material in the manner that appeals to the needs of individual parents and youth.
• Support and counsel foster parents in their efforts to care for the child and include them in the development of the goals and tasks.
• Make all court appearances and testimony including permanency hearings.
• Participate in Family Team Conferences, including but not limited to the placement preservation, reunification/discharge, goal changes and permanency planning conferences.
• Attend all necessary meetings, functions, workshop, etc. as required by the agency.
• Progress notes are to be completed and submitted preferably within one day of the event but no later than the end of the given week of the event.
• FASP and Permanency Hearing Report will be submitted on the internal date for review provided by the agency's compliance department.
• Collaborate closely