Family Find Resource Specialist

Basic Function . Work closely with the Social Service Workers/Supervisors to locate placement options for youth Reporting Relationship: Reports To: Vice President of Child Welfare Services Complete extensive research, investigation, and outreach in locating absentee parents/guardians. Identify and locate potential extended family/fictive kinship relationships. Provides professional technical assistance and resource development support to social work staff who serve children with specialized and problematic behavior service needs. Assist the family social service worker with facilitating the expansion of resources needed to better serve children and their families involved in foster care. Travel to various locations to attend meetings, conferences, or to locate and assess family homes as needed. Utilize a family-centered, trauma-informed, strength-based, and EDI lens through which youth and family needs are assessed. Engage the youth (as age-appropriate), birth parents, family and social connections, foster parents, and staff to facilitate and support stability and permanency for the youth. Possesses strong, creative problem-solving skills, and can use non-traditional search methods to identify and locate family members and supportive connections. Utilize strong data analysis skills needed to conduct diligent search activities across multiple databases, systems, social media, and other websites. Complete required forms and documentation Coordinates with Licensing Staff on Foster Family Home Licensing Participate in Child and Family Team Meetings as needed Requirements: Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university in social work, psychology or counseling CWEL license required Rule 402 Foster Family Home Licensing Examination Required Two or more years of related experience. Successfully complete appropriate background check clearance and post-offer medical requirements. Must have and maintain a reliable automobile with liability insurance and a good driving record. Ability to partnership with persons served and their families to help them gain the skills/confidence to address their problems Mental/Physical Demands: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. Work requires concentration using a computer in analyzing and manipulating data. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Environmental Conditions: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Duties are performed in a typical office environment. No unusual or adverse working conditions exist. This description documents the general contents and requirements of the job. It is not to be construed as an exhausted statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. The principal duties and responsibilities shown are all essential job functions except for those indicated with an asterisk (*). The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Education Required: Bachelors or better in Psychology or related field. Experience Required: Two or more years of related experience. Equal Opportunity Employer This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor. #J-18808-Ljbffr Ada S McKinley Community Services Inc