The Child Center of New York, Clinical Consultation Program,

Mental Health/Domestic Violence Consultants with experience working in Early Childhood and with Adolescents.

The staff person is a full time employee of the Child Center of New York, working under the ACS Clinical Consultation Program. The mental health/domestic violence staff person will function as consultant to ACS, under the supervision of the CCNY Team Coordinator/Project Director and will be located full time within one of the ACS Field Office Sites located in Queens or the Bronx along with other members of the program staff.

Responsibilities include:

• Conducting formal and informal consultations with ACS Child Protective Specialists on their cases which include mental health and/or domestic violence concerns. The CCP consultant will assist in assessing the presence of these concerns, and help determine the specific level of interventions required to strengthen the family and reduce risk to the children, providing concrete tools and casework guidance.
• Consultant will meet productivity requirements including number of formal consultations per week and writing reports for every consultation, within an acceptable time frame.
• Attending Family Team Meetings, case conferences and child safety conferences as required and approved by the team coordinator. Direct client contact is to model or demonstrate effective interventions and engagement strategies for the benefit of caseworkers or other ACS staff.
• Developing and implementing at least one mental health training or domestic violence for Child Protective Specialists, supervisors and managers per month. Topic to be determined by the needs of the field office in collaboration with the consultant. Curriculum will be written and specific, and creative in approach to engage CPS in learning and transfer of knowledge.
• Attend case reviews as an important training tool, as per request of ACS deputy directors and approval of the Team Coordinator . Case reviews
• Attending bi-monthly CCP city wide mental health and alternately domestic violence consultants meetings.
• Developing/maintaining knowledge of community based resources for referral for mental health and/or domestic violence services.

Qualifications include:

LCSW or LMSW, with at least three years clinical experience

Excellent writing skills mandatory; Excellent engagement skills; Ability to work as part of a team

Ability to understand, respect and work in a host environment; Word, excel, power point skills required.

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