QI Specialist

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The selected candidate will be offered a salary between $84,863.00 - $97,593.00
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It is important that you file for, take and pass the next examination for the Civil Service Title of Child and Family Specialist when it is made available 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. For more information, visit https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

ACS protects and promotes the safety and well‑being of children and families through child welfare and juvenile justice services and community supports. ACS manages community‑based supports and foster care services, and provides subsidized child care vouchers. ACS child protection staff respond to allegations of child maltreatment. In juvenile justice, ACS oversees detention, placement and programs for youth in the community.

DYFJ provides a wide range of services and programs for youth at every stage of the juvenile justice process. Our goals are to build stronger and safer communities and advance public safety by preventing juveniles from entering the New York City’s juvenile justice system, provide therapeutic treatment and services to youth in our custodial care, and help juveniles access the tools they need to leave the justice system for good.

The Division of Youth and Family Justice seeks an outstanding Child and Family Specialist to serve as a Qualified Individual Specialist. The federal Family First Prevention Services Act requires jurisdictions to use the least restrictive form of foster care placement that is appropriate to meet the child’s needs. For Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) placements, the state‑specified assessment must be completed by a Qualified Individual.

• Convene a permanency team consisting of all appropriate biological family members, relatives, fictive kin of the child, and professionals who are a resource to the family. For children 14 years or older, the team must include members of the permanency planning team that the child selects in accordance with Title IV‑E requirements.
• Make the level of care assessment, consult the family and permanency team, and determine the appropriateness of the assessed level of care using an OCFS‑approved, age‑appropriate, evidence‑based, validated, functional assessment instrument.
• Prepare a court report and written summary detailing assessment findings, and provide such documentation to the court, the parent or guardian, and attorneys within federally determined time frames.
• Attend court hearings to present and provide evidence of the assessment, determination, and documentation of the child’s level of care. For children in QRTP, assist the permanency planning team with obtaining documentation for the permanency hearings and re‑assessments.
• Facilitate re‑assessment for replacements if the court disapproves of the previously assessed QRTP level of care, and collaborate with the placement office to plan for an alternate setting in alignment with the court schedule.
• Maintain complete and accurate records, including extensive case record documentation in Connections or the designated system of record, in a timely manner.

• A Master’s Degree in Social Work from an accredited school of social work.
• 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: facilitation of family team conferences or family group decision‑making meetings using a conferencing model that emphasizes family engagement and consensus‑based decision‑making; clinical group work with children, youth, parents or individual families;
  
  or professional training on topics related to child and family services.
• Alternatively, a valid New York…