Community Habilitation Specialist - Per Diem

Overview: p style="margin: 0px;"emspan style="color: #ff0000;"strongFostering Talent, Changing Lives/strong/span/em/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"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/p Responsibilities: p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"The primary purpose of the position is to provide one on one assistance to persons with special needs. We provide specifically tailored life plans/goals to enhance the developmental skills that is needed for those to live independently within their chosen community./span/pul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;"li style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"The Community Habilitation Specialist displays a congenial, warm acceptance for all individuals./span/lili style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"The Community Habilitation Specialist will primarily be responsible for the assessment and/spanbr /span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"observation of the person’s skills development. Is alert to the expressions of attitudes, feelings and relationships of each individual. Develops an awareness of the individual’s needs, not only through the observation and interaction but through a study of the individual’s case history and by appropriate consultation with other members of the staff./span/lili style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"Support the person in navigating the program and identifying incentives in learning new skills and/spanbr /span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"behaviors./span/lili style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"Engage primary caregivers and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by/spanbr /span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement./span/lili style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"Implement problem conceptualization, treatment planning, intervention implementation, and/spanbr /span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"outcome review and strategy revision procedure using the model's Analytic process (Brief Family/spanbr /span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"Systems Therapy and Parental Management Training)./span/lili style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"Develop Valued Outcomes with the steps on how to achieve it based on caregivers/community/spanbr /span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"supports and behaviors observed along with child/adolescent strengths./span/lili style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"Community Habilitation Specialist meet with the assigned children/adolescent for 1-2 times per/spanbr /span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"week depending on the child/adolescent coordinated hours/span/lili style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"Community Habilitation Specialist will travel to borough assigned/span/lili style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"Community Habilitation Specialist attends supervision and training as required. It is essential that Community Habilitation Specialist know and protect individual’s rights./span/lili style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"Community Habilitation Specialist will document each training session in the appropriate databases and report the progress and barriers with each client./span/lili style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"The Community Habilitation Specialist will receive consultation and supervision from the Community Habilitation Supervisor./span/lili style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"Positive and strength focused approach to cases/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" /pp style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" /pp style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"emspan style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"strongThe New York Foundling is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse employee population, /strongstrongthe Foundling will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are /strongstronginclusive, equitable and welcoming./strong/span/em/p Qualifications: pbr /stronguEducation Required?/u/strongbr /br /br /stronguDegree/u/strongbr /br /br /stronguMajor/u/strongbr /br /br /stronguLicense/Certification Required?/u/strongbr /Nobr /br /stronguLicense/Certification/u/strong/pullispan style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Demonstrated strong commitment to safety./span/li/ul Recruitment Tagline: Hiring Impact, Changing Lives Together