Foster Care Family Caseworker
Job Summary: As a Foster Care Case Manager, you will play a critical role in transforming the lives of vulnerable children and families. Your expertise and compassion will help create a nurturing environment, supporting the spiritual, social, educational, and emotional development of children by supervising, evaluating, and licensing foster parents, and providing case management services to clients in foster care. Some evening/weekend work may be required.
Location: Hendersonville, NC
Work Site/Hours: Typical hours are 1st shift, Monday-Friday, though the schedule is flexible based on client needs. Must be willing to work some evenings and weekends as dictated by the demands of the position, including family appointments and on-call support. Work locations range from human services agencies, offices, and often involve visits to client’s homes. May involve contact with clients and/or family members who may be hostile, resistant, and violent.
Salary: $42,000 to $46,500 annually, $3000 SIGN ON BONUS
Benefits:
• Defined Contribution Benefits Plan including options for:
• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Life, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability plans
• Critical Illness and Accident coverage options
• Flexible Spending Plan
• 401k with employer match (up to 6%)
• 20 Days PTO, 11 Paid Holidays
Education/Experience
• Meets requirements for a Qualified Professional which are:
• Master’s degree in a human services or related field from an accredited college or university and a minimum of one year supervised clinical experience working with children and families;
• Bachelor’s degree in a human services field and two years’ experience with the current population; or a
• Bachelor’s degree in a non-human services field and four years’ experience with the current population.
• Minimum of two years experience in working with children and families required.
• Prior case management experience preferred.
Key Competencies:
• Cultural Competence: Ability to work with diverse populations, including children and families of all ages, races, nationalities, sexual orientations, gender identities, disabilities, and backgrounds.
• Communication Skills: Effective written and verbal communication skills, including ability to take supervision direction and work independently.
• Interpersonal Skills: Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients, families, coworkers, and community collaborators.
• Crisis Management: Demonstrated ability to operate well in crisis situations and knowledge of cultural issues that can affect care.
• Flexibility and Adaptability: Willingness to work with children of all ages and backgrounds, and flexibility to balance and prioritize multiple tasks and projects.
• Technical/ Clinical Skills: Knowledge of state child welfare and mental health systems, ability to assess and evaluate foster families, and provide quality case management and clinical coordination.
• Documentation and Record-Keeping: Ability to maintain accurate and clear documentation of case management services, interventions, and client progress.
• Decision-Making: Ability to use sound judgment in developing and implementing decisions.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Ability to work closely and cooperatively with other community partners, and serve as a member of the Foster Care team.
• Continuous Learning: Commitment to using Sanctuary principles, and willingness to learn and improve professional skills through supervision, training, and continuing education.
• Technology Proficiency: Ability to use a variety of computer software programs, including Microsoft and Google products, and willingness to learn new technologies.
• Initiative: Ability to take initiative, work independently, and demonstrate enthusiasm and confidence in taking on tasks and challenges
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
• Cultivate a nurturing environment through the use of the Sanctuary Model that supports client and staff development on every level spiritually, socially, educationally, and emotionally.
• Assist as needed in the recruitment and training of prospective foster families.
• Assess and evaluate assigned licensed foster families on the 12 Skills required by the NC DHHS Licensing Regulations during licensing quarterly visits, monthly supervision meetings, and annual evaluations.
• Continue to assess and evaluate assigned foster families during in-service trainings for competencies in multiple areas.
• Provide foster parents with educational resources and support to assist them in attending to the educational needs of clients to the best of their abilities.
• Provide quality case management for clients in foster care making sure their needs are met in a timely manner as well as keeping updated, well organized documentation for each client’s file. 7. Conduct regularly scheduled visits in the foster home as mandated by the State Licensing and Regulatory Standards.
• Ensure foster parents are engaging in shared parenting with biological families as well as with other connections that are in the best interest of the client whenever possible.
• Develop a comprehensive person centered plan (PCP) or service plan with a safety and/or crisis plan in coordination with appropriate staff, community partners, legal guardian/ family members and the client.
• Regularly attend client staffings (e.g., agency and community treatment team meetings, admission assessments, psychiatric evaluations, etc.) and provide clinical coordination that ensures quality provision of services.
• Coordinate and facilitate monthly Child and Family Team meetings to assess client progress, continually evaluating the need for services and making revisions as needed to client’s goals, interventions, safety and crisis plans.
• Act as an advocate for assigned clients by coordinating all agency and community-based services to support appropriate treatment planning.
• Participate in a rotation schedule providing 24-hour on-call consultation services to foster parents, providing necessary clinical and crisis intervention.
• Provide individual supervision to assigned foster parents through regularly scheduled meetings to ensure that each client receives appropriate care consistent with accepted standards of practice and the needs of the client.
• Supervise the provision of individualized therapeutic interventions designed to assist the client in accomplishing his/her goals.
• Monitor and assist foster parents in designing a Professional Development Plan.
• Ensure Foster Parents who are working with clients in therapeutic foster care are using the program’s therapeutic model of care weekly.
• Provide monthly contact with clients in accordance with State Licensing and Regulatory standards.
• Ensure the collection and analysis of outcome data as expected by the agency.
• Other duties as assigned.
DOCUMENTATION
• Ensure the provision and completion of accurate and clear documentation of case management services provided, interventions used, and client progress in adherence to licensing and accrediting standards.
• For children in Therapeutic Foster Care, review client’s grids to ensure that the content is congruent with treatment needs of the client.
• Appropriately document all supervisory meetings, including minutes, corrective action, disciplinary action, performance appraisals, family visits, licensing actions, trainings, and any correspondence relating to the family
• Ensure timely compliance of all foster home licensing records in adherence to licensing and accrediting standards.
• Ensure personnel file compliance by submitting all personnel file documentation to your supervisor in a timely manner.
• Ensure authorization paperwork is submitted in a timely manner.
• Maintain timely scanning and submission to EHR (Evident) and Binti systems related to client and foster parent files.
DECISION MAKING
• Use sound judgment in developing and implementing decisions.
• COMMUNICATION/ INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
• Work closely and cooperatively with other community partners maintaining positive, problem-solving relationships.
• Demonstrate ability to take supervision direction as well as work independently using sound judgment.
• Attend necessary team meetings, medication appointments, and admission assessments to ensure the planning and delivery of quality services.
• Serve as a member of the Foster Care team.
• Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Participate in committees or workgroups.
• Participate as needed in community-wide projects and program development which address the needs of children, youth, and families, including public relations engagements which explain the program to the community.
Pre-Hire Requirements:
• Must successfully complete extensive background checks, interviews, and pre-hire drug screen.
• Crossnore Communities for Children is requiring new hires (excluding those with an approved medical or religious exemption) to be vaccinated for COVID 19 as a condition of employment to help ensure the safety of all employees, youth and families served.
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