Job Description
Job Description
This is an in-office position. Employees are required to work from the Victorville office and travel to foster homes throughout Hemet, Menifee, Moreno Valley, Riverside, San Bernardino, Victorville, Apple Valley, Hesperia, and surrounding areas as part of their regular job duties.
Relationships:
Reports: Administrator
Supervises: Foster Homes
Works with: Foster Care staff
External: foster parents, birth parents, county social workers, lawyers, and foster children contacts.
Qualifications:
Education/Training:
Required:
- Master's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, Human Services, Marriage and Family Therapy, or a related human services field.
Applicants must also meet the following California Community Care Licensing qualifications:
- Three (3) semester units or six (6) months of experience in a social services agency at the master's degree level.
- Nine (9) semester units of coursework related to children and families or 18 months of experience in child and family services.
- Three (3) semester units of coursework related to working with minority populations, or six (6) months of related experience, or completion of the required in-service training within the first year of employment.
Experience: 18 months experience in field of children and family services.
Licensure: Must possess a valid California Driver’s License. Bi-lingual Spanish proven proficiency.
Other Characteristics: Read, write, and effectively communicate with governmental agencies. Flexibility in various situations.
RESPONSIBILITIES & PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
· Accountable for maintaining complete casework, medical and home file on individual caseload and preparing required reports for these files.
· Develop and maintain a working relationship with persons associated with assigned foster children.
· Monitor all foster homes for compliance with Title 22 regulations.
· Evaluate, assess, and orient potential certified foster home applicants.
· Evaluate, assess, and orient children in certified foster homes.
· Evaluate, assess, and orient children in certified foster homes, including monitoring adherence to licensing regulations.
· Develop and updated the needs and service plan for assigned foster children.
· Supervise up to 15 foster children in placement, including direct contract with the children and foster family.
· Provide support services to foster families, including crisis intervention counseling and referrals to outpatient services when Mental Health services are warranted.
· Meet health, educational, religious, recreational, social, emotional, and psychological needs of each child on caseload in conjunction with community resources.
· Submit all required reports to state licensing and the placing agency.
· Obtain and provide the foster parents with required admission information upon initial placement.
· Develop and maintain a network of medical and psychological resources for the foster children in the area of placement.
· Monitor current status of educational planning and academic function of each foster children and represent the child in the educational setting whenever necessary.
· Participate in the assessment team meeting in order to discuss individual cases, develop treatment goals or plan for eventually family reunification.
· Assist in transportation for foster children when necessary.
· Participate in the assessment team meeting in order to discuss individual cases, develop treatment goals or plan for eventually family reunification.
· Assist in presenting and promoting program goals to community support groups and others.
· Maintain a professional environment that is consistent with existing contracts, licensing regulations and established policies.
· Be culturally competent and sensitive to all staff, clients, and their families.
· Actively participate in continuous quality improvements and outcome measures. Maintain a positive attitude and open communications with all contracts.
· Other responsibilities that arise based on agency needs.
*Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted and/or changed at the discretion of management.
PHYSICAL REQUIRMENTS:
Possesses that physical requirement needed to perform job duties. In an eight (8) hour workday this includes the following:
· Sitting 4 to 6 hours per day.
· Standing 2 to 4 hours per day.
· No frequent bending, stooping, twisting, reaching, turning, and squatting.
· No frequent pushing.
· No frequent pulling.
· No frequent lifting from the floor to overhead, or floor to waist.
· No frequent carrying.
· No frequent overhead reaching.
· Small motor and hand skills necessary to perform writing tasks.
· Normal or corrected near and far vision, in addition to non-inhibiting color vision. May read up to 3 hours of the day.
· Normal or corrected hearing.
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Mileage reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Education:
- Master's (Required)
Language:
- Spanish (Required)
Work Location: In person