Placement Specialist
US-FL-Port Saint Lucie
FL CCK Careers
Req #: 45319
Type: Full-Time
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Overview: As a Placement Specialist, you will work with other dedicated professionals who share your passion for helping individuals in need. We offer: * Opportunities to work with a mission focused organization and servant leader culture * Unique rewards that come from seeing children improve and flourish in stable environments. * Salary for the Placement Specialist position starts as high as $51,000 annually * Excellent benefits including low-cost, high-coverage health insurance, generous time-off, and competitive retirement, to name a few Communities Connected for Kids (CCKids) provides community-based services for children and families in the child welfare system, to ensure a community without abuse, neglect or abandonment. Based out of Port St. Lucie, FL, this position is responsible for the intake of foster care children and placement of those individuals within the CCKids System of Licensed Care. Additional duties and responsibilities include: * Coordinate with the protective investigators (DCF), case management agencies (CCKids), and child placing agencies placement staff, to ensure children removed from their caregivers are placed in a setting best suited to meet their needs and in a timely fashion * Ensure children are placed in settings that best suits their needs and receive services that are appropriate. * Monitor assigned Case Management Agencies, and contracted facilities for quality and accuracy. * Accept, counsel and deescalate crisis calls, regarding placement issues * Assist the Protective Investigator or the Case Manager in developing the initial plan of placement action and make appropriate referrals to ancillary professionals, e.g. Certified Behavioral Analysts, Foster Care Support, SAMH, etc., when indicated. * Assist the Protective Investigator and Case Manager with the placement of children into foster homes, and acute care behavioral settings, as well as provide back-up calls to assist with placement in residential group settings. * Collaborate with the Family Service Teams and/or case management agencies to provide appropriate services to children and families. * Assist the Case Managers, when possible and work cooperatively with CCKids subcontractors, regarding the provision of wrap-around services to children and families. * Assume On-call responsibilities, as assigned by the supervisor on a rotating schedule, to effectively meet Placement needs after normal program hours, weekends and holidays. * Complete funding requests and forward to the appropriate people for approvals/signatures. * Participate in the quality improvement process * Maintain compliance with Minimum Training Requirements (MTR) * Perform daily FSFN entries, keeping information about child movement in licensed care current, to keep the system of placement and payment to foster homes on track. Responsibilities: About Communities Connected for Kids Communities Connected for Kids provides oversight and coordination of the child-welfare system in Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie counties. At any given time, there are about 1,300 abused, abandoned or neglected children in our care. We are responsible for the safety and well-being of each one of them. We meet this responsibility through a mix of direct and contracted services. If you think about it in terms of building a house, we are the general contractor of the child-welfare system. The system is the house, we are the contractor, and our network of service providers are the subcontractors we pull together to make the house strong and ready to live in. Who We Serve Communities Connected for Kids offers a full range of care for children, adolescents, young adults and family members in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast. We offer our services through a wide variety of approaches including in-home parenting and prevention services, family preservation, case management, residential programs and extended foster care services for teenagers and young adults. In the tradition of true partnership, Communities Connected for Kids works closely with several agencies that are funded through Medicaid, substance abuse/mental health or private funds to offer a continuum of treatment services otherwise unfunded by Community Based Care dollars. These partnerships help families strengthen their capacity to care for their children or help children heal from trauma they've experienced. Mission Our mission is to enhance the safety, permanency and well-being of all children in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast through a community network of family support services. Values Communities Connected for Kids values are: We are accountable to the children and families we serve and to the communities in which we live. We ensure services provided are: * Individualized, based on the strengths and needs of the families we serve * Respectful and culturally sensitive * Effective and accountable * Evidence based and data driven * Permanency focused * Ensure financial and human resources are managed and maximized Our Vision We envision a community without abuse, neglect and abandonment so all children grow to their full potential. Qualifications: Education: * Required: Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Human Services or related from an accredited school or university. Experience: * Required: Three (3) or more years experience in Child Welfare, Community-Based Services, Foster Care, Placements, Behavioral Health, or a related field. * Preferred: Dependency Case Management experience. Professional Certification in Child Welfare (CWCM, CPI, etc.) from the FL Certification Board.
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