Foster Care Home Study Assessor - FT

About the role

All Agency staff are expected to focus on Quality improvement as a part of their job responsibilities, in an effort to make the Agency a safe and healing environment for clients and staff. This expectation includes, but is not limited to: teamwork, improving service delivery, fulfilling department goals, and other job-specific tasks that encourage excellence.

It is the responsibility of each employee to be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ and to adhere to the Standard of Moral Conduct and Statement of Faith. Further, each employee is responsible for dealing with others with a Christ-like attitude while helping them experience their worth in Christ, and for demonstrating behaviors reflecting CCHO's core values of Relentless Commitment, Selflessness, and Kindness.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates licensing requirements for Encourage families, including home studies, halfway houses, and recertifications.
• Facilitates approval of alternative caregivers for foster care homes.
• Assists with adoptions in the department.
• Makes every effort to maintain a 'team first' spirit and atmosphere within the workplace environment, fostering and maintaining appropriate working relationships within the Encourage team and with other Agency departments.
• Completes initial home studies for foster care and adoption applicants.
• Completes additional licensing needs on assigned caseload and completion of documentation in SACWIS (recertifications, approving alternative caregivers, rules investigations, tracking training needs for part-time staff).
• Attends and participates in Encourage Team meetings.
• Participates in Quality Improvement activities.

Requirements

• Minimum, Tier 1 Assessor in State of Ohio with at least two years of experience conducting initial foster care and adoption home studies for a public or private children service agency.
• Proficient at documenting the home study in SACWIS.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write professional quality reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from agencies, families, clients, donors, and the general public.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Internet, SACWIS and e-mail. Knowledge of database and design software is helpful.
• Must be 21 or older to apply.
• Must have valid Ohio Driver's License and maintain a driving record that allows that individual to be insurable.

Physical demands

• The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to walk.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Employee must be able to drive long distances.

Work environment

• The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.