Salary: $63,888.00 – $86,246.00 Annually
Location : Scottsdale, AZ
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Number: 100914-230630
Department: Social Services
Opening Date: 06/30/2023
Closing Date: 7/14/2023 11:59 PM Arizona
Definition
Under general supervision from a Social Services Manager, manages all foster care licensing activities for the Social Services Department for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Responsible for identifying, recruiting, training, and licensing prospective foster parents. Provides ongoing support, assessment to assist with retention of licensed foster parents. Serves as a member of the licensing team and manages licensing compliance. Coordinates and facilitates foster care recruitment, licensing of foster care homes, and licensing investigations. Monitors and ensures all recruitments, home licensing, and investigations comply with all licensing standards and regulatory requirements. This job class is treated as FLSA Exempt.
Essential Functions:Essential functions may vary among positions and may include the following tasks, knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics. This list of tasks is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of tasks performed by all positions in this classification.
Examples of Tasks
1. Foster Parent Recruitment: Assists with recruiting and educating parents willing to become foster parents for Community children.
- Conducts outreach and recruitment campaigns to identify families interested in becoming foster parents.
- Provides training to potential foster parents to educate them on requirements for becoming a foster parent and to gauge their interest in participating in the program.
- Participates in speaking engagements to actively recruit for foster homes for children to be placed.
- Assesses the suitability of families to meet qualification standards to be foster parents.
- Works to increase available foster home capacity through ongoing public awareness and recruitment efforts.
- Monitors and ensures appropriate background check requirements are conducted on applicants prior to being accepted into the foster care program.
2. Foster Care Licensing: Conducts licensing and relicensing of foster care parents and homes.
- Completes home studies to determine families’ suitability to meet the needs of children being considered for placement in foster care homes.
- Monitors and ensures all licensing and relicensing requirements are completed within established timeframes and according to all licensing regulations/guidelines.
- Conducts thorough and accurate assessments of applicants and/or licensed foster families to ensure all licensing/relicensing requirements are met prior to placement of renewal of foster care license.
- Conducts all annual relicensing activities in accordance with SRPMIC standard operating procedures.
3. Foster Care Home Visits: Conducts regular home visits to assess prospective foster parents and licensed relative replacements.
- Conducts regular training for foster families to ensure they understand and comply with the regulatory requirements associated with caring for foster children.
- Provides ongoing support and retention for licensed foster homes including but not limited to home visits, advocacy, training and special events honoring foster families and providing 24 hours support.
- Provides family and individual counseling in coordination with foster children servicing plans.
- Provides crisis intervention and case management services to the children, the family and foster parents.
- Supervises and monitors licensed foster homes on a regular basis depending on the experience of the foster parent, length of time the child been in the home, and the needs of the family. .
4. Foster Care Compliance: Monitors and ensures all necessary reports, documentation and paperwork is properly maintained and all compliance requirements for foster children and parents are met.
- Submits monthly reports on licensing activities, including foster home capacity, foster home capabilities to meet children’s needs, children’s length of stay, and number of training hours.
- Participates in quality improvement activities, including participation and preparation of quality assurance staffing and investigations of foster care referrals alleging violations of licensing standards.
- Developments corrective action plans to assist with resolving foster care child of parent issues uncovered in investigations of foster care homes.
- Coordinates and works with child welfare staff on appropriate placement for children in out of home care.
- Conducts regular file reviews and prepare all necessary reports in accordance established Community and Social Services Department regulations and standards.
5. Performs other job related duties as assigned by the supervisor, Assistant Social Services Director and Social Services Director.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other Characteristics:
- Knowledge of the culture, customs, traditions, history, government, and the needs of the families of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
- Knowledge of data management software including spreadsheet development and use.
- Knowledge of federal, state, and Tribal laws regarding privacy and confidentiality in regards to client records and information.
- Knowledge of standard operating procedures.
- Knowledge of child welfare practices including intake, investigations, on-going and foster care.
- Knowledge of services that are provided to children and families in the Community, local and state resources.
- Knowledge of social work principles and legal issues that affect child welfare practice.
- Knowledge of court procedures and legal documentation.
- Knowledge of case planning activities.
- Knowledge of federal funding requirements including Title IV-E.
- Skill using the personal computer and related software, including MS Office, in order to fulfill job requirements.
- Ability to work with families in their community and home environment which may include animals, smoke, etc.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to work independently and utilize initiative.
- Ability to be organized and meet established deadlines.
- Ability
- Ability to establish and maintain accurate record keeping systems and procedures including computerized record keeping.
- Ability to work with a variety of staff members in a team approach to service delivery.
- Ability to operate a variety of standard office equipment including, but not limited to, photocopiers, FAX machines and personal computers.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education & Experience: AMaster’s degree from an accredited college or university in Social Work or a related human services field, AND three (3) years’ experience with child welfare or related work is required.
- Equivalency: Any equivalent combination of education and/or experience that would allow the candidate to satisfactorily perform the duties of this position, will be considered.
- Underfill Eligibility: An enrolled Community Member whom closely qualifies for the minimum qualifications for a position may be considered for employment under SRPMIC Policy 2-19, Underfill.
Special Requirements
- Due to the confidential and sensitive nature of this position, successful completion of an extensive background investigation is required. May be subject to working evenings, weekends and occasional travel (in state and out of state).
- Employees in, and applicants applying for, jobs providing direct services to children are subject to the “Community code of Ordinances”, Chapter 11, “Minors”, Article X. “Investigation of Persons Working with Children”.
Prior to hire as an employee, applicants will be subject to drug and alcohol testing. Will be required to pass a pre-employment background/fingerprint check. Employees are subject to random drug and alcohol testing.
“SRPMIC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer” Preference will be given to a qualified: Community Member Veteran, Community Member, Spouse of Community Member, qualified Native American, and then other qualified candidate.
In order to obtain preference, the following is required: 1) Qualified Community Member Veteran (DD-214) will be required at the time of application submission 2) Qualified Community Member (must provide Tribal I.D at time of application submission),3) Spouse of a Community Member (Marriage License/certificate and spouse Tribal ID or CIB is required at time of application submission), and 4) Native American (Tribal ID or CIB required at time of application submission).
Documents may be submitted by one of the following methods:
1) attach to application
2) fax (480) 362-5860
3) mail or hand deliver to Human Resources.
Documentation must be received by position closing date.
The IHS/BIA Form-4432 is not accepted.
Your Tribal ID/CIB must be submitted to HR-Recruitment-Two Waters.
The SRPMIC offers a comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and a 401(k) retirement plan. In addition employees enjoy vacation and sick leave and 13 paid holidays.