Foster Care Home Specialist KS

Working with us takes a certain kind of person; we want someone who identifies with our values and is willing to challenge themselves both personally and professionally. We seek employees who are passionate about serving and making a difference in the lives of others. 

Make more than a Living, Make a Difference

Our Benefits: 

• Low-Cost Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 19 days of Paid Time Off the first year
• 11 paid holidays
• Retirement savings plan with employer match up to 5%
• Flexible spending accounts
• Paid short-term and voluntary long-term disability
• Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary term life insurance

Duties & Responsibilities

• The Foster Home Specialist manages a caseload of foster homes by providing support for the foster families in which the children are placed.
• Provides supportive services as necessary for children referred for foster home through the child placing agency.
• Provides direct services, orientation, and support for foster care homes as necessary.
• Serves as a contact person for outside agencies in regard to service delivery for foster care.
• Documents service delivery, monthly reporting, criterial incident reports, initial licensing paperwork, re-licensing paperwork and all other assigned documentation and reporting requirements.
• Complies with HIPAA regulations for the Foster Home Program.
• Assists in maintaining foster home files and submits new information to funder as required by foster home regulations:
• Assists in providing and tracking training for foster parents and assuring that all required training hours are met and documented.
• Develops and maintains relationships with all referral sources for foster care placements and ensures all necessary paperwork is complete.
• Consults with funder in the agency’s service planning process for children as needed.
• Maintains assigned paperwork in compliance with standards and client confidentiality according to established policies, federal and state statutes. 
• Recruiting of foster homes, completes home studies/assessments, and conducts foster parent support meeting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, from an accredited college or University, in social work or a related Human Services field and licensed by the State (required for Kansas). Or, A Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Sciences from an accredited college or university and 2 years of experience in child placement under direct supervision of a person meeting the supervisory requirements.
• Two years’ experience working with children and/or families within a need identified social welfare system required.  
• Ability to work under stressful situations; Knowledgeable of community resources.  Must be computer literate.  Must have current certification in CPR, First-Aid, Team and Basic Health Needs.  Must have reliable vehicle; Ability to work irregular hours, including overtime to perform job successfully.
• Ability to use personal car to transport clients.  Potential exposure to clients that may exhibit physically and/or verbally aggressive behaviors; potential exposure to communicable diseases;   Must be free of communicable disease as defined by the appropriate state and to the extent that knowledge is attainable under the law.

*This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a person assigned to this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties that may be performed by a person so classified.

About our Program:

Eckerd Connects' Foster Care is an approach that caters to the physical, emotional, and social needs of children and youth in a supportive family setting until the natural family can be reunited or a permanent placement through adoption can be arranged.  All children we serve in foster care receive an individualized package of wrap around services that includes home based individual and family therapy, educational support and advocacy, linkage to psychiatric care when needed, and daily instruction in identified need areas of basic living and social skills to help the child gain the skills they were never taught before.  Eckerd Connects provides a continuum of wrap-around services for the family from the first inquiry call until the child graduate’s high school.

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Please follow the link for more information about this program: https://eckerd.org/family-children-services/foster-and-adoption/

Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. ("Eckerd Connects") considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran.  

Eckerd Connects is a drug-free workplace and utilizes E-verify to confirm employment eligibility.

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