Foster Family Support & Placement Specialist

Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office; Lawrence (KS); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Kansas Works is seeking a Child Placing Agency Specialist to support foster families and children in care. The role involves intake, placement recommendations, and service planning under supervision, with emphasis on recruiting and training foster families and providing crisis support.

Key duties include managing a caseload of families, conducting monthly home visits, ensuring regulatory compliance, and maintaining records.

Responsibilities

• Carries an average caseload of 22 active families.
• Accepts referral information regarding potential placements for children in care and matches with foster families.
• Conducts home visits and reviews documentation on foster children on a monthly basis.
• Conducts home visits on assigned active respite families on a monthly basis.
• Ensures each home is compliant with DCF regulations and completes home reports after visits.
• Assists foster parents in accessing resources to meet foster child needs.
• Ensures foster parents attend trainings for relicensing requirements.
• Completes renewal processes and exceptions as necessary.
• Conducts family assessments at renewal licensing time.
• Updates Electronic Record System and openings list weekly or on request.
• Facilitates support meetings and other activities for foster families regularly.
• Tracks NOSF findings to ensure compliance actions are completed and investigations closed.
• Tracks MVR reports to ensure corrective actions are completed.
• Develops and tracks CAPs and safety plans with foster families as required.
• Assists in recruiting new foster families and attending recruitment events.
• Completes monthly reports documenting current behaviors on each child in assigned foster home.
• Provides crisis/on-call services and 24/7 support to assigned foster families.
• Submits incident reports when appropriate.
• Maintains communications with foster family, foster child, and collateral agencies.

Job description

Kansas Works is seeking a Child Placing Agency Specialist to support foster families and children in care. The role involves intake, placement recommendations, and service planning under supervision, with emphasis on recruiting and training foster families and providing crisis support.

Key duties include managing a caseload of families, conducting monthly home visits, ensuring regulatory compliance, and maintaining records.