Placement Specialist (53599)
Duties
Provide comprehensive foster and adoption services, pre-placement assessment updates, and pre- and post-placement services to CHS clients, or to clients of other agencies for whom CHS has contracted to provide services.
Maintain records on all licensed homes on caseload.
Conduct quarterly mandatory visits.
Maintain consistent communication with foster and adoptive families as mandated by contracts.
Collaborate with Program Supervisor and/or Senior Program Director, be prepared to select homes for children as needed, arrange for respite care, and coordinate information about children before foster or adoptive placements.
Provide adoption services for foster parents adopting children who are receiving CHS foster care services in their homes.
Maintain monthly visitation and case management services for children in foster care and provide them with comprehensive foster care services to include program assessments.
Provide therapeutic foster care placements with weekly clinical supervision, maintain authorizations, participate in treatment teams and other required meetings, and keep current all required Medicaid/MCO case documentation in client database.
Qualifications
- Education, Licenses & Certifications: Bachelor’s degree in social work or related human services degree from an accredited college or university required, master’s degree in social work highly preferred. TIPS-MAPP/Deciding Together training and State Foster Care Licensing training preferred.
- Experience: 2-5 years’ child welfare services experience required.
- Knowledge of: Case Management | Child Welfare System | Adoption & Foster Care.
- Skills and Proficiency in: Must operate in a professional work environment with the ability to work independently while maintaining adherence to deadlines. Excellent oral and written communication skills with proven effective organizational and time management skills. Intermediate computer skills (Microsoft Applications as well as electronic data systems, time sheets, expense reports, use of virtual platforms for meetings).