What are the responsibilities and job description for the Family Finding Supervisor position at Pathways?
Family Finding Case Manager
Camelot Care Centers is part of Pathways, one of the largest national providers of mental and behavioral health services. We offer many benefits to aid in your work/life balance and career growth. This position leads and supports our case managers working in the Child Welfare field, with a goal of ensuring safety of the children/youth, promoting their wellbeing, and working toward permanence through foster care, family reunification, guardianship, or independence.
Perks of this role:
Team environment
Hybrid: Work from home with travel to clients 2-3 days/week and in-office for meetings and supervision
Weekday 9:00am -5:00pm with ability to flex your schedule
Stability and growth opportunities working for a local agency with national backing
About your role:
This position works to support children who are under DCFS guardianship, by researching, identifying, and locating potential placements and social connections. You will utilize various research outlets, including social connections, online searches, database records, social media sites, and other outlets to search for prospective supports and placement resources for the youth and family.Ensures that intensive family finding initiatives are pursued for children under DCFS guardianship to facilitate and encourage kinship connections, possible placement and long-term support. Uses strong communication and engagement skills to collaborate with staff, other providers, and community members to perform the following job duties:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
* Consistently exemplifies Camelot Customer Service Standards and Mission, Vision, and Values.
* Assures the quality of the foster care family finding program as required by all applicable standards and policies; seeks out and analyzes problem areas in order to improve quality of care.
* Manages the family finding team across the state.
* Oversees the family finding efforts ensuring extensive research, investigation and outreach in locating absentee parents/guardians and identifying and locating potential extended family/fictive kinship relationships.
* This includes using non-traditional search methods to identify and locate family members and supportive connections, using data analysis to conduct diligent search activities across multiple databases, systems, social media, and other websites, and using ecomaps, genograms, and other tools to map and locate prospective supports and placement resources for the youth and family.
* Provide professional technical assistance and resource development support to case managers who serve children with specialized and problematic behavior service needs.
* Assist the family caseworker with facilitating the expansion of resources needed to better serve children and their families involved in foster care.
* Travel to various locations to attend meetings, conferences, or to locate and assess family homes as needed.
* Utilize a family-centered, trauma-informed, strength-based, and equity, diversity and inclusion lens through which youth and family needs are assessed.
* Serve as a team member within the multidisciplinary team or Child and Family Team Meeting consisting of case manager, supervisor, foster parent, birth parents and youth to facilitate connections between newly found family/fictive kin members, supports, and other collateral resources to resolve complex and stalled cases to improve permanency outcomes.
* Participates in the Continuous Quality Improvement processes at the local level.
* Participates as a member of the State Management Team.
* Provides training and consultation to staff on family finding for youth in care.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Directly supervises family finding specialists across the state. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the agency's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include recommendations for hiring, firing, employee discipline and incentives; training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; addressing complaints and resolving problems at the first level of the Complaint/Grievance procedure for family finding staff and for clients and/or foster parents.
What we are looking for:
- Bachelor's degree with experience in investigation, research, and working with families. Experience in child welfare preferred. The number of years of experience and exact type of experience shall be in accordance with applicable state requirements.
*The above degrees will need to have course curriculums/transcripts reviewed and approved before being accepted under this employment classification. Coursework must exceed 50% concentration in the above areas of human services to qualify for exemption. - Valid Driver's license in good standing, and automobile insurance. Must obtain a valid IL license within 30 days of hire if moving from out of state.
- Ability to complete a physical and TB (PPD) test within 30 days of hire.
- Preferred:
- CERAP, DCFS licensure (CWEL)
- Child Welfare experience
- Success in client engagement, organization, and documentation timeliness. Experience with Word and Excel.
What we offer to you:
- Competitive Salary
- 12 Paid Vacation Days that increase with tenure to 15 days after 2 years!
- 7 Paid Sick Days
- 10 Paid Holidays
- 401 K Plan
- Medical, Dental, Vision benefit plans
- Pet Insurance
- Mileage & Cell Phone Reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- SoFi at Work student loan refinancing
- Next Steps Financial Wellness program webinars and tools
- Verizon discount
- Dell discount
- Health, Dependent and Transportation Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee, Spouse and Dependent Basic and Optional Life Insurance
- Perks at Pathways national discounts on travel, shopping, and entertainment
- DailyPay- daily access to your earnings without waiting for payday!
- Training, Development and Continuing Education Credits for licensure requirements
- Opportunities for advancement! As we grow, you grow with us!
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Camelot Care Centers ("Camelot") is a Child Welfare Agency licensed by the State of Illinois, a member of the Child Care Association of Illinois, and is accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA). Camelot Care Centers, Inc. is a subsidiary of Pathways. Pathways is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status or any other protected characteristic.
Compensation: $50,000.00 - $55,000.00 per year
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Salary : $50,000 - $55,000
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