Training Specialist

About the role

As a Training Specialist, you will ensure dependency case management staff are trained to understand the dynamics involved in providing effective and efficient child welfare services. You will facilitate pre-service and in-service trainings for all CCKids employees, providing support and training to child welfare staff to ensure they have the knowledge and skills needed to serve children and families in Circuit 19. The Training Specialist plays a key role in the certification process for dependency case managers and is involved in the quality improvement process.

Based in Port Saint Lucie, FL, this position supports Communities Connected for Kids, a program dedicated to serving children and families in the child welfare system, ensuring a community without abuse, neglect, and abandonment.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate orientation for new staff.
• Facilitate pre-service training for case managers and other trainees.
• Facilitate in-service training.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to assist in the transfer of learning from the classroom to the field.
• Provide support with case plan development, judicial reviews, court-related functions, staffing preparation, and field activities.
• Facilitate learning circles/case work practice to assist staff in developing knowledge and skills with the Florida Practice Model.
• Assist in the development of structured field days during training.
• Support child welfare staff in obtaining Child Welfare Certification through participation in individual, group, and field observations as required by the Florida Certification Board.
• Maintain awareness of new laws, rules, policies, and procedures.
• Participate in training workgroup committees and planning meetings.
• Ensure all training is documented in the DCF My FL Learn database.
• Participate in the accreditation process.
• Participate in the quality improvement process.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with CCKids staff and customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in social work, human services, or a similarly related field (Master’s degree preferred).
• Five or more years of previous experience working in the child welfare field.
• Two or more years of experience developing or facilitating training.
• Certification as a Child Welfare Professional with the Florida Certification Board (FCB).
• Ability to obtain Certification as a Child Welfare Trainer within twelve (12) months from hire date.
• Strong passion for training new staff and helping improve overall job performance.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, both written and oral.
• Excellent public speaking skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Proficient computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Email, and the Internet.

This position requires a background screening in accordance with FS 435.12.

Benefits

• Opportunities to make a positive impact in the lives of children in need.
• Unique rewards from seeing families improve and flourish with the services you refer them to.
• Quality low-cost benefits with a 30-day benefit eligibility waiting period for new hires.

Pay

Salary for the Training Specialist position starts as high as $52,000 annually.

About Communities Connected for Kids

Communities Connected for Kids provides oversight and coordination of the child-welfare system in Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, and St. Lucie counties. At any given time, there are about 1,300 abused, abandoned, or neglected children in our care. We meet this responsibility through a mix of direct and contracted services.

We offer a full range of care for children, adolescents, young adults, and family members in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast, including in-home parenting and prevention services, family preservation, case management, residential programs, and extended foster care services for teenagers and young adults.

Our mission is to enhance the safety, permanency, and well-being of all children in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast through a community network of family support services.

Our values include accountability, individualized services, respect, cultural sensitivity, effectiveness, evidence-based practices, and permanency focus. We envision a community without abuse, neglect, and abandonment so all children grow to their full potential.