Job Description

Twin Cedars Youth and Family Services/Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) program seeks an experienced social services professional to join our growing Macon team! The ideal candidate has prior experience working in a case management role at a CPA or DFCS. The position in office-based, traditional Mon-Friday business hours, plus share on-call rotation after hours/weekends. Staff must live within a 40 minute drive to the office.

Position requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Criminal Justice, Sociology or other social services field plus two years of social services experience working with children and families; or master’s degree in social services field and one year of related experience. Foster care system and/or mental health experience required.

Summary of Primary Responsibilities:

1. Provides comprehensive care coordination for children diagnosed with a range of behavioral health, developmental and medical diagnoses who are placed in therapeutic foster homes. Care coordination includes making home visits and community based visits, collaborating with service providers, working with the school system, creating and ensuring child's service planning goals are developed and implemented effectively, ensuring the health, educational, social, physical and emotional needs are met consistently and ensuring the services provided by foster parents are within compliance and support the child's well-being. Effective, timely and thorough documentation of child services required.

2. Takes primary responsibility for overseeing that child’s emotional and mental health needs are being met in the therapeutic program. Overseeing children's needs includes the child's assessment, development and monitoring of service planning goals and objectives; providing guidance for and documentation of interventions and objectives; coordination of mental health, educational, developmental and medical services and needs; ensuring all educational needs are met; and facilitating relevant independent living activity engagement for teenaged youth.

3. Provides regular technical assistance and support to the Therapeutic Foster Parents in the implementation of the Master Service Plan. Technical assistance and support includes providing guidance, emotional support and relationship building, sharing information and training to enhance professional development and observation/assessment of family interactions and stress; assisting in group/individual foster parent training; arranging respite breaks and transportation of children as needed.

4. Provides support to the birth families for children served, when appropriate by ensuring child’s relationship with birth family members through a coordinated effort with the referring agency and in accordance with the child’s case plan.

5. Acts as a liaison to community and advocate for provision of services for children. Ensuring provision of services by: completing an assessment of child’s needs and available resources; attending court hearings and meetings about the child; and assisting foster parents with connections to resources.

6. Provides crisis intervention services and emergency on-call support on a rotating basis with other TFC staff, as assigned. Providing crisis intervention includes direct response to help resolve crisis situations, providing support to the foster parents and child; coordinating emergency response; responding immediately; making immediate supervisory report; and following supervisory guidance and directives for crisis management.

7. Responsible for documentation, filing and maintenance of child records in accordance with TCYFS policy, licensing and funding source requirements. Documentation required: contact notes documented within 24 hours, collection of service provider, medical and dental reports monthly, monthly summary reports, incident reporting, data entry and any other documentation related to program operating practices.

8. Processes client and foster parent related data for financial purposes.

9. Completes new admission intakes and placement move processes as assigned.

10. Participates in problem solving and incident management for TFC program. Works with program leadership to provide information and assists in problem solving for a variety of programmatic issues, including but not limited to: placement disruptions, foster parent non-compliance and incidents.

11. Performs other duties that support program operations as assigned.

Note: A candidate may be considered for entry level position with similar responsibilities titled Care Coordinator, which starts at a lesser salary and has reduced job responsibilities.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $39,000.00 - $44,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• On call

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Macon, GA 31210: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Are you able to provide on-call crisis response (includes phone and in-person response) after hours and weekends on a weekly scheduled rotation with peers?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• social services: 1 year (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Required)

Work Location: In person

Similar Jobs