Mentor

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.

Under the supervision of the AMP Supervisor, Mentors work with youth to instill core values such as problem solving, communication, responsibilities, and time management to address problematic behavior and encourage change.

• Provide home based services to youths via individual or group sessions to decrease risk and safety factors and meet their goals and needs.
• Engage primary caregivers and other key participants throughout treatment to engage in sessions and overcome barriers to engagement when they arise to ensure successful goal attainment.
• Complete timely and accurate documentation of session progress and collateral notes in all databases that includes Evolv, Connections, Promis and/or Care4 to support treatment fidelity, tracking, and planning.
• Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with colleagues, community providers and model/external stakeholders to connect families to resources and support ongoing treatment communication and collaboration for effective treatment planning.
• Cotinuously assess for families safety, addressing crises, completing safety plans and incident reports in a timely manner as necessary to ensure the safety and well-being of all families served by the program with an emphasis on decreasing system involvement (could include after hour/on call support).
• Conduct intake thorough the completion of initial assessments and gather essential consent forms for new cases, ensuring timely case openings, completeness of information and family understanding of services to achieve a smooth start to treatment.
• Participate in group, individual supervisions, trainings, all staff meetings and community outreach events to stregthen professional development, skill growith, group cohesion and community visibility.

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

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.

Required Educational Level:

• Bachelor’s level required in Social Work or relevant degree, Psychology, Sociology, including Education degree due to the nature of mentoring

Experience:

• Must have 2 years of relevent experience in child welfare, social services, or a related field and a desire to work with children and families.
• Excellent writing, communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, time management and organizational skills.Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Proven self-management abilities including meeting deadlines, prioritizing multiple tasks efficiently, timely completion of documentation and maintaining accurate and up-to-date case records.
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse, multidisciplinary team and connect with a diverse client population to engage them in services throughout treatment.
• Ability to receive and execute feedback to professionally grow and/or improve and be flexible with programmatic needs and changes.
• Ability to manage stress, self-care and maintain a high level of self-awareness.
• An understanding and commitment to complying with the New York State Central Register of Abuse and Neglect protocol (requirement to report any suspected abuse, maltreatment or neglect of any child).
• Must be comfortable and able to travel and visit families in their homes and perform safety assessments.

Preferred Knowledge:

• Family systems theory and application
• Social ecological theory and application
• Behavioral therapies theory and application
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy theory and application
• Pragmatic family therapies theory and application
• Child development research and it’s application in treatment
• Social skills assessment and intervention
• School systems and Mental Health issues
• Demonstrated strong commitment to safety