Family Foster Care Coordinator

About the role

The Family Foster Care Coordinator recruits prospective professional foster parents, licenses family foster parent applicants, relicenses current family foster parents, and monitors family foster homes for safety and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Visits Family Foster Homes monthly, assesses the safety of the children in care, and completes Home Visit Reports.
• Documents contacts with foster parents in FSFN.
• Completes initial and re-licensing home studies.
• Facilitates trainings with Professional Foster Parents in home/office or at meetings.
• Plans and facilitates monthly family outings.
• Facilitates/monitors weekly commissary distribution.
• Conducts Foster Parent evaluations/relicensures.
• Assists in coordinating services/events for children & foster parents.
• Provides supportive services to foster parents and children, as assigned.
• Creates policy and procedure updates as needed.
• Creates and maintains professional foster parent activities schedule.
• Assures that Family Foster Parents are fully trained in the approved pre-service Curriculum.
• Assures that all Professional Foster Parent homes meet standardized safety & licensing requirements.
• Completes monthly safety inspections.
• Assists in coordinating services to children & foster families.
• Assists with transporting children to appointments as needed.
• Completes monthly reports on children in care.
• Completes incident reports as needed.
• Assists in placement decisions, facilitates placement meetings with prospective children.
• Assists placement on-call after hours.
• Attends recruitment orientations and presentations.
• Facilitates recruitment presentations within faith-based communities and churches.
• Submits and manages family foster home maintenance work orders.
• Facilitates family foster care orientations as needed.
• Performs all other job duties and responsibilities, as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work or related field of study and two or more years’ experience in social work or related field preferred; or any combination of training, education, and experience which would provide the required knowledge, abilities, and skills to successfully perform in this role.
• State of Florida Child Welfare certification, required.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Experience in child welfare.
• Valid driver license with a clean driving record.
• Minimum of a high school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Ability to read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

Skills

• Interviewing and assessment skills to adequately assess the qualifications of potential professional foster parents.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to maintain sensitivity to our target population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.

Schedule

• Flexible schedule to include evenings and weekends to meet the needs of the role.
• Required to participate in an after-hours on-call rotation on a monthly basis.
• May spend up to 50% time traveling to various local foster parent homes, work locations, and events.
• Schedule may be subject to change at any time, with or without notice.