Sr. Coach - EFFC

Overview

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

Position Summary

The Fair Futures Senior Coach is a full-time position that would provide support to the team as well as support and resources to youth in Foster Care at the New York Foundling. The Fair Futures Senior Coach will report directly to Fair Futures Coach Supervisor.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

Build trusting relationships and provide ongoing social and emotional support to the youth on their caseload. Works with youth directly 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 one-on-one and group facilitation regarding life skills training, college preparation, and youth leadership training. Responsible for the assigned caseload of up to 18 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 18 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 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). Promote peer and supervisory feedback, and demonstrates compliance with evidenced based model, and meeting our agency’s expectation (i.e. progress notes, etc.) Adopts a strength focused approach with families, stakeholder, and within the program. 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. Builds a relationship with the schools, foster care agency, and other stakeholder to ensure collaboration and proactive communication. Ability to provide needed coverage, support to peers/team members, at the main office, community, or other . Able to respond to the needs of the team and program by shifting schedule to support. Attends staff meeting and agency activities. Attends required training set by agency, and continued commitment to professional development. Provide shadowing opportunities for other FF Coaches and support in absent of a Supervisor.

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.

Other Requirements

Preferred Experience

Possess at least one year of experience working in areas directly related to supporting youth, families or communities. Coaches should come from, or be intimately familiar with the communities in which participating youth/families reside. Coaches should have similar life experiences as the youth, and should have a passion for working with adolescents. Have experience in working with teens; undertake advocacy and outreach with parents, teachers, the criminal justice system and other institutions; collaborate as team players; empower youth to do the same; retain strong ties to the community; organize effectively; be computer literate; show patience with youth; possess a sense of humor; and be able to think “out of the box.” Experience in providing direct services to youth and their families in their homes and communities. Experience working with youth and have knowledge of the juvenile justice system in New York City. Be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet, Email, and Data entry systems (e.g. Connections, Electronic Health Record Care4 Platform). Excellent communication skills required. Experience in managing direct service providers who engage with the identified populations or similar population in high-risk court-involved youth either in Family Court or Adult Court, Child-Welfare programs. Experience in working with or providing services to children and families, demonstrated ability to establish trusting relationships. Experience with and willingness to work with culturally diverse population, computer literacy, able to research current information on medical, social and legal issues. Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of youth (i.e. family, peer, school, and neighborhood). Be comfortable and adaptable to changes. Take initiative and a team-player Be strength-focused and be able to engage youth. Be accountable and open to ongoing evaluation, feedback and supervision of his or her work. Have experience with cross-agency collaboration. Have experience with clinical management / supervision of staff. Have skills to manage own and team self-care to prevent burnout.

Salary Range: $53,550-$60, 850/year

The New York Foundling is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse employee population, the Foundling will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

Qualifications

Required Educational Level

Bachelor’s level required in social work or relevant degree. Masters Preferred.

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Education Required

Bachelors