Overview
Position Summary: The Home Finding Department is responsible for the recruitment, training and certification of all foster homes within Children’s Aid. With approximately 500 homes either in the process of certification or certified, Home Finding is the initial contact for prospective foster parents with the agency’s foster care division within Children’s Aid. The Home Finding Department seeks to ensure a highly quality of care for children in the agency’s care as well as highly quality of customer service for our foster parents. Children’s Aid has four foster care programs within the agency including Family Foster Care, Therapeutic Foster Care, Medical Foster Care and Medical Foster Care for Developmental Disabilities. The Home Finder is responsible for assessing assessment, certification and reauthorization of foster parents.
Responsibilities:
- Complete foster parent home studies and reauthorizations of kinship and recruited homes.
- Maintain up-to-date records ensuring that all documents needed for home certification and reauthorization are completed and filed.
- As part of the home study and reauthorization process: conduct home visits, gather documents, interview, assess the physical space as well as the motivation and overall functioning of the foster family.
- Understand and adhere to foster care regulations.
- Provide foster parent training as needed.
- Participate in supervision, staff meetings and in-service trainings.
- Participate in case conferences.
- Provide foster parent training as needed.
- Aid in foster parent recruitment.
- Other duties as necessary.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work or a related field required
- Knowledge of child welfare
- Valid driver’s license required
- Excellent interviewing and assessment skills
- Excellent oral and writing skills
- Strong organization skills
- Able to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Computer literacy in Excel, Word, Outlook and Connections
- Bilingual: English/Spanish
- MAPP certification preferred