FAMILY FINDER SPECIALIST

Family Finder Specialist - 60074731

This position performs advanced family finding program efforts to discover, engage, plan, make decisions, and evaluate strategies to locate relatives and fictive kin. Additionally, this position is responsible for providing assistance with the completion of home study assessments on identified potential placements and engaging with the Judicial system, as appropriate, to support placement changes. Incumbent will:

• Conduct extensive/advanced searches, such as case mining, mobility mapping, internet searches and cold calls, to locate adult relatives and fictive kin.
• Conduct home study assessments on identified potential placements and provide a recommendation the primary worker on placement consideration.
• Collaborate with the child protective investigator to identify and build positive connections between the child and the child's relatives and fictive kin.
• Attend and participate in family finding group decision making which may include conducting a multidisciplinary meeting with all parties involved and prospective family members or fictive kin.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with organizations and other agencies involved with child welfare such as community-based care providers, Children's Legal Services, Guardian ad Litem, schools, clinical professionals, and other community agency resources.
• Regularly review and identify any changes to Florida Statutes, DCF Operational Procedures, Administrative Rule, and policies. Ensures participants are aware of changes, confidentiality and HIPAA, and identifies potential problems related to case specifics.
• Engage with the Judiciary and Children's Legal Services/State Attorney's Office, as appropriate, to support placement changes.

Other duties as assigned.

What you are expected to know: Knowledge in Florida's Practice Model and Florida's official electronic system of record, Florida Safe Family Network (FSFN). Experience in Microsoft Office, familiar with the child welfare system, excellent written and oral communication skills; strong interpersonal skills relative to diverse populations in academic, public health, and community settings. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple competing deadlines. Analytical, decision making, and organizational skills.

Licensure/Certification: Bachelor's Degree Valid Florida Driver's License, Certified Child Welfare Professional through the Florida Certification Board.

Other job-related requirements: Travel to other areas across the Northeast Region service centers. Successful completion of the Department's approved training in Family Finders methodology.

Location: Daytona Beach, FL, US, 32114 Jacksonville, FL, US, 32211