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Offer: Foster Care Recruiter:Job description:
Foster Care RecruiterJOB DESCRIPTIONPOSITION SUMMARYThe Foster Family Program provides foster and pre-adoptive foster homes to children from birth through age 21 who have been removed from their homes and placed in foster care. Each foster parent receives training and continuing professional support to promote a positive, prosperous practice. The position is responsible for recruiting and assessing prospective foster homes, which includes training and case management of the certification process. The position also requires the maintenance of each certified foster home, including recertifying each home, ensuring agency and state standards are met with their licensure. ESSENTIAL tasks AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other tasks may be assigned. Employees are expected to be awake and alert while working. » Participate actively in community activities and events to recruit foster parents » Participate in developing an active recruitment plan for recruiting foster parents » Handle inquiries and applications from potential foster parents » Facilitate all orientation meetings with potential foster parents » Complete all paperwork for the certification process » Prepare and present GPS/MAPP training for potential foster parents » Assess families capability to foster children as it relates to 12 expertise of prosperous fostering » Complete home studies for all recommended foster homes » Conduct safety assessments to assure the health and safety of foster homes » Facilitate CPR/First Aid process and other agency pre-certification trainings » Maintain certified foster family records » Handle the recertification process, including development of yearly skill development plan with each family, assessing strengths and needs of the foster home » Provide continuing training and support for certified parents in conjunction with the foster care team » Check with certified families on quarterly basis to monitor strengths and needs of the foster home » Coordinate annual holiday party and a foster parent appreciation event as retention efforts managerY RESPONSIBILITIES this job offer has no managery responsibilities. leadership abilities Functions as an independent contributor without specific responsibility to give direction or supervision to other staff. SUPERVISION RECEIVED Direction: receives guidance with respect to general objectives; in the majority of tasks and projects assigned, determine methods, work sequence, scheduling, and how to achieve objectives of assignments; operate within specific policy guidelines. May require approval before proceeding with next steps. QUALIFICATIONS to execute this job prosperously, an individual must be able to execute each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the expertise, skill, and/or capability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to execute the essential functions. EDUCATION and/or practice Requires a Bachelors degree in human services, social work, sociology, psychology, education or related field, and at least two years of related practice. CERTIFICATION / LICENSURE Requires a valid drivers license. expertise Broad expertise of a discipline such as social work, teaching, behavioral science, finance, information technology, or business administration; involving the use of a broad theoretical expertise. COMMUNICATION and CONTACT with OTHERS Requires effective communication expertise. Communication involves frequent contacts with clients/families, other departments, and individuals in administrative or managerial positions, communicating on information and non-controversial problems within and outside the organization and presenting information and recommendations for solutions. Represents the organization in routine public activities such as making client-related simple presentations or providing information. Interpersonal communication at this level requires effective communication expertise to obtain cooperation or share/receive information which will contribute to decision making. DECISION MAKING Work is primarily performed independently and initiative is expected on specific aspects of the work except under unusual circumstances or conditions. Procedural guidance is available. Decisions on routine matters are appropriate at this level. CONSEQUENCES of ERRORS Image/Reputation: Errors could cause adverse effect to clients, could cause client- or agency-related image/reputation concerns, inaccurate reports/records, and/or could result in dissemination of inaccurate or incomplete information. Such errors may be detected inside or outside the organization and could result in obligating the organization to take a risk or some financial obligation or loss. LANGUAGE expertise capability to read, understand and implement documents such as care instructions, procedure manuals, operating instructions, and safety rules. capability to write routine reports and correspondence. capability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization. REASONING capability capability to deal with practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. capability to interpret a variety of information/instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. ORGANIZATIONAL SCOPE and IMPACT this job offer is not a functional head of a program or department. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY No financial management responsibility. MATHEMATICAL expertise capability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. capability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. TECHNOLOGY expertise Proficient computer expertise including Windows operating environment using MS Office applications. Demonstrated use of intermediate computer operations (basic programming, relational databases, and operating systems) and intermediate software packages, (word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.). WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Work requires 25 50% community travel/visits. Community travel/visits require visits to client homes. PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to prosperously perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to execute the essential functions. Some physical exertion is required such as long periods of standing, recurring bending and lifting, and/or lifting of items up to 35 pounds and/or may be required to execute physical interventions. EMPLOYER'S DISCLAIMER All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only tasks to be performed by the employee occupying this job offer. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to execute any other job-related tasks requested by their manager. Furthermore, the agency reserves the right to add to or revise an employee's job tasks at any time at its sole discretion. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" employment relationship. QualificationsSkills:
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