Coach - Fair Future (Manhattan | 35hr/wk | Full Time)

Under the supervision of the Assistant Vice President (AVP) or covering AVP:

• Responsible for meeting with youth and family to develop individual success plans inclusive of the youth and family’s goals, needs and wishes.
• Build trusting relationships and provide ongoing social and emotional support to the Youth on their caseload.
• Works with youth directly for 5 to 8 hours per week to discuss the youth’s goals, provide support in using the extra learning, offer academic guidance (including on topics such as managing study time, sequential learning, staying focused, and getting to know their learning style), help coach them in developing important life skills (social skills, decision-making skills, health and safety, computer skills, etc.), and encourage community/civic involvement.
• Identifies various resources and supports that will help meet the individual needs of each of the youth.
• Provides mentoring success among foster care population, and includes one-on-one and group mentoring, tutoring, life skills training, college preparation, and youth leadership training.
• Responsible for the assigned caseload of up to 15 youth at a time to build proficiency to the model and/or reach model fidelity, and meeting the documentation requirement
• Work 1:1 with up to 15 youth to develop academic and career development goals based on their interests and academic situation.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders, including parents, foster parents, peers, case planners, and so on.
• Engages the youth by working with them to develop a plan, and providing them with rewards and encouragement as they work toward their goal(s).
• Connect the youth to the quality schools, programs, resources, peer groups and opportunities in line with their goals.
• Ensuring youth who are aging out can access and maintain housing and build independent living skills
• Retains strong ties to the community; organizes effectively to meet agency deadline and weekly contact requirements
• Attends coaching and mentoring and group supervision with the supervisor at the main office, alternate office, or in the community as needed. Come ready in supervision having planned and prep for supervision
• Works closely with the social worker and supervisor to effectively support the youth and their families.
• Ensures adherence to all agency, City and State regulations and policies.
• Responsible for timeliness of documentation and data entry while maintaining confidential client records, and meeting program deadlines (as indicated by program).
• Maintains clear, concise and accurate clinical approved documentation of treatment efforts that promote peer and supervisory review and feedback, and that demonstrates compliance with evidenced based clinical model, OMH, and meeting our agency’s expectation (i.e. Benefit Assignments, diagnosis, treatment plan, progress notes, and on)
• Adopts a strength focused approach with families, stakeholder, and within the program/treatment team.
• Communicate advances and barriers experienced with the clients, team, and stakeholders, including escalating any feedback received regarding own areas of improvement, to the supervisor
• Maintains communication with supervisor and escalate any incidents related to clients and/or staff and complies with agency incident reporting policy.
• Participates in all model program training, supervision and consultation activities.
• Builds a relationship with the schools, Foster Care agency, and other stakeholder to ensure collaboration and proactive communication.
• Available 24/7 for the team and participates in weekend on-call rotation.
• Provides coverage support as needed to peers/team members at the main office, community, or other site.
• Able to respond to the needs of the team and program by shifting schedule to support
• Splits time between the main office and other offices, community based on meeting needs and youth service needs
• Attends staff meeting and agency activities.
• Attends required training set by program, funding source, agency, and continued commitment to professional development,
• Other duties as assigned.

Organizational expectations include:

• Regular and punctual time and attendance, and adherence to The Foundling's and your department’s specific time and attendance policies and protocol.
• Consistent demonstrated commitment to The Foundling's BHAG, mission, vision and values (Compassion, Dignity, Family and Community, Diversity, Excellence).
• Adherence to The Foundling's employee policies, Code of Conduct and applicable rules, laws, regulations or bargaining agreements.
• Appropriate engagement with support departments to ensure appropriate and timely hiring, performance management, investigation, discipline, suspension, and restructuring decisions concerning direct reports. Regular supervision and performance evaluation of direct reports.
• Any other duties and/or tasks that may be assigned.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor's in Social Work, Psychology and Sociology