FAMILY FINDER SPECIALIST

Family Finder Specialist - 60074751

Family Finder Specialist Department of Children and Families Brevard County Florida Open Competitive

Duties and Responsibilities This position performs advanced family finding program efforts to discover, engage, plan, make decisions, and evaluate strategies to locate relatives and fictive kin.

• Conducts extensive/advanced searches, such as case mining, mobility mapping, internet searches and cold calls, to locate adult relatives and fictive kin.
• Collaborate with the child protective investigator to identify and build positive connections between the child and the child's relatives and fictive kin.
• Identify and build positive connections between child and the child's relatives and fictive kin.
• Attends and participates in family finding group decision making which may include conducting a multidisciplinary meeting with all parties involved and prospective family members or fictive kin.
• Attend Case Transfer Staffing as needed to inform Child Welfare Professionals of current status of family finding efforts.
• Establishes and maintains 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 reviews and identifies 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.

Knowledge, skills and abilities 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.

Location: ROCKLEDGE, FL, US, 32955