Floating Case Planner

About This Role

The Floating Case Planner supports day-to-day social services tasks within the Division, ensuring constructive services for children in foster care to improve their functioning. This role connects parents to essential services, aiming for family reunification, and supports colleagues with various field visits and coverage needs.

Responsibilities

• Create service plans in partnership with child, biological family, and foster family, addressing safety, behavioral, educational, psychological, and permanency needs
• Monitor safety, well-being, and progress through regular casework contacts and documentation in progress notes
• Schedule and supervise mandated visits between child and natural family
• Conduct ongoing required in-person interviews with child, natural family, and foster family
• Independently conduct field visits to homes, schools, courts, prisons, hospitals, and other sites as needed
• Attend weekly supervision with supervisor to discuss case situations and provide status updates
• Attend all Family Court hearings on assigned cases and provide testimony regarding case status and Agency position
• Participate actively in Family Team Conferences to advance permanency for children and families
• Work closely with Integrated Services to ensure medical and mental health needs of children and biological families are monitored

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Excellent written, oral, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills
• Collaborative team player
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook and Excel
• Computer proficient
• Knowledge of Connections
• Ability to use public transportation to travel throughout New York City

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of Child Welfare System

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits