Provide culturally competent case management and transition planning for incarcerated individuals, conducting assessments, developing person-centered service plans, coordinating reentry services, maintaining compliant documentation, reporting outcomes, and ensuring continuity of care from jail to community.
Position Summary:
The Transition Specialist is responsible for comprehensive, culturally competent services to individuals detained in the city jails and upon reentry to IMPACT.
What You'll Do:
Case Management:
- Conduct thorough assessments and, through a motivational interviewing process, develop individualized person-centered Comprehensive Service plans for 100% of participants on caseload.
- Provide crisis intervention and engage in safety planning.
- Provide individualized services to 100% of Participants on caseload from the point of orientation to exit.
- Provide evidence-based clinical support as needed.
- Facilitate care from Rikers through successful re-entry in the community. This includes ensuring that connections are made to appropriate internal and external services as required to meet the needs of the participants.
- Work in conjunction with Reentry Mentors and Reentry Coordinator to ensure seamless transition and continuity of caregiver for 100% of participants on caseload.
Transition Planning:
- Conduct quarterly presentations of reentry services offered in the jail.
- Conduct thorough assessments and, through a motivational interviewing process, develop individualized person-centered transition plans for 90% of the assigned houses.
- Expedite communication and/or case conferences with DOC, CHS, jail-based providers, defense teams, community partners, and positive supports.
Performance Management and Reporting:
- Maintain regular contact with participants to meet program standards and achieve program retention for 100% of the participants on caseload.
- Sustain open communication with program participants through face-to-face contacts, phone conversations, emails, and text messages.
- Provide outcomes reporting every month.
- Maintain 100% HIPAA and Informed Consent Compliant Documentation
- Manage participant files, including progress notes and reports on progress toward goals.
- Provide weekly reports to the team and Program Director.
- Participate in regularly scheduled supervision and ongoing training.
- Attend meetings and participate in professional development training offered.
- Enter case notes for every job seeker in FedcapCARES daily.
You're a Great Fit For this Role If:
- You have a Bachelor’s degree in human services, psychology or special education, or a related field from an accredited college or university.
- Bring a minimum of 4 years of working with the population, plus an HS diploma or equivalent instead of a bachelor’s degree.
- Experience working with formerly incarcerated individuals preferred.
- Case Management experience preferred.
- Must be able to receive entrance clearance to Rikers Island.
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.
Compensation:
- $66,300 annually
Equal Opportunity Employer
About Us Mission: We are committed to improving the economic and social well-being of the impoverished and disadvantaged.
For 85 years, The Fedcap Group has developed scalable, innovative and potentially disruptive solutions to some of society’s most pressing needs. The Fedcap Group is the parent company of a growing number of top-tier nonprofit agencies dedicated to serving over 300,000 children and adults each year across the United States and the United Kingdom. The Fedcap Group provides educational services to every age group, vocational training in high-growth labor industries, behavioral health services, work readiness skill-building and jobs—all targeted to helping people achieve long-term self-sufficiency.
The work of The Fedcap Group is structured within four major practice areas: Education, Workforce Development, Occupational Health and Economic Development, which are strategically aligned for maximum impact.
The Fedcap Group also invests its time and resources in broader systems change—working in partnership with federal, state and local government to improve the way services are designed, funded and delivered.
Website: http://fedcapgroup.org/
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