Heartshare St. Vincent’s Services (HSVS) Nuevo Camino program is dedicated to providing 38 unaccompanied minors, ages 5-12, with a supportive, nurturing environment through transitional foster homes, daily education Monday - Friday, and supportive wrap-around services in the Brooklyn section of New York City. Our program is rooted in ensuring that service delivery is trauma-informed, culturally appropriate, and tailored to the needs of each child while maintaining all program requirements of ORR.
Home Finders ensure that every youth in transitional care has a safe, healthy, and nurturing foster home. Home Finders ensure that all agency, city, state, and federal regulations and requirements are strictly followed, and accurately documented. Home Finders ensure that foster families feel supported and valued while providing loving care for every child in their home. Home Finders provide training and guidance to foster families, to help them to raise happy, healthy, and secure children.
Responsibilities:
- Completing detailed, accurate, and timely written reports on all homes assigned to them, including annual reauthorization narratives, home studies for newly trained and kinship homes, and addenda for all homes, as needed.
- Ensuring that all foster homes on their workload have foster home case record files that are complete, accurate, tidy, and audit-ready at all times.
- Being the point of contact for all of the foster families on their individual workloads,
- Assist and support foster parents in meeting challenges and achieving success, through participation in administrative meetings, referral for additional services, or other interventions, as necessary.
- Receive training and certification allowing home finder to deliver required foster parent training and subsequently deliver said training as requested.
- Participate in required ORR – Nuevo Camino training per the federal and state mandates.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from four-year college or equivalent
- 2 years of similar experience
- BiLingual Spanish required
- License Needed: Driver’s License.
- Experience in child welfare/case management strongly preferred.
- Prior experience working with refugee and/or immigrant populations preferred.
- Stable judgment as well as sensitivity to various cultures and the unique history of refugees.
- Exceptionally organized and detail-oriented
- Successful in a fast-paced work environment
- Commitment to Nuevo Camino's core mission and values and an ability to model those values in relationships with colleagues and partners, and commitment to empowering refugees and migrants.
Benefits
At HeartShare we offer a comprehensive benefit package based on full-time/part-time status. You can expect:
- Rewarding Work in a team environment.
- Paid vacation, sick, personal days, and holidays.
- 403(B) retirement plans with employer contribution.
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Flexible spending account (Dependent Care, Medical, Parking, and Transit).
- Employee Appreciation Programs and Events.
- Tuition Assistance Program.
- Professional Development opportunities.
- Wellhub Discount
- Verizon Wireless Discount.
- BJs Membership discount.
- Discounts on Broadway tickets, movie tickets, theme parks, sporting events, gift certificates & more
HeartShare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). If you need to request accommodation during the recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected].
About Heartshare
Who WE ARE:
For over 150 years, Heartshare has been dedicated to championing and empowering New Yorkers society has too often overlooked and underestimated.
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HeartShare Human Services of New York nurtures and empowers children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree from four-year college or equivalent
- 2 years of similar experience
- BiLingual Spanish
- Driver's License
- Experience in child welfare/case management
- Prior experience working with refugee and/or immigrant populations
What We Do
HeartShare Human Services of New York is a nonprofit human-services organization supporting New Yorkers with developmental disabilities and family services, providing housing, education, healthcare, and pathways to independence.
