Foster Care & Adoption Placement Specialist

Children's Home Society of North Carolina; Greensboro (NC); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina is seeking a Placement Specialist to ensure the needs of children in foster/adoptive placements are met. You will deliver Permanency Services, foster care and adoption, including therapeutic foster care, with responsibilities spanning placement facilitation, visits, case management, documentation, and program support.

You will engage in outreach, recruit and collaborate with families, maintain required Medicaid/MCO documentation, and participate in

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in social work or related human services required; MSW preferred.
• TIPS-MAPP/Deciding Together training and State Foster Care Licensing training preferred.
• 2-5 years’ child welfare services experience required

Responsibilities

• 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, 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.
• Enter data and required case documentation into client database (Echo/Binti) by the last day of the month and submit by the 5th of the following month to Program Supervisor
• Prepare for annual and follow-up audit visits from the State Department of Social Services representatives for agency re-licensing, Managed Care Organizations (MCO’s) for therapeutic foster care services, and other licensing or regulatory entities.

Skills

Oral communication

Written communication

Time management

Microsoft Office

Data entry

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in social work or related human services

Master’s degree in social work preferred

Tools

Echo/Binti

Job description

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina is seeking a Placement Specialist to ensure the needs of children in foster/adoptive placements are met. You will deliver Permanency Services, foster care and adoption, including therapeutic foster care, with responsibilities spanning placement facilitation, visits, case management, documentation, and program support.

You will engage in outreach, recruit and collaborate with families, maintain required Medicaid/MCO documentation, and participate in