Foster Care Manager

Company Description

Children's Adoption Services is a nonprofit agency that helps orphans and vulnerable children domestically and internationally. Founded over 30 years ago, we have successfully united more than 5,000 children with their forever families. We offer international adoption services to US citizens from several countries and have domestic adoption and foster care programs in North Carolina and South Carolina. Our Choices program also offers pregnancy and adoption options in NC and SC.

Role Description

This is a part-time or full-time hybrid position with some travel as a Foster Care Manager. The primary responsibility is to provide supervision to the following staff titles: Social Worker/Case Manager, Licensing/Training Worker, and Qualified Professional.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supervising foster care staff.
• Provides case consultation, review, and monitoring of staff responsible for.
• Provides case assignments, 24 hour rotating phone response assignments, coordinates workflow, maintains efficiency, responsible for staff training, and quality control.
• Responsible for making changes in work procedures to meet program demands and present recommendations to management on issues which impact programmatic goals, objectives and policies.
• Reviews program objectives and service delivery needs with staff, formulates specific goals and objectives for the assigned program area, and provides input to higher-level management on short-range planning needs for staff.
• Responsible for ensuring that staff receive initial job training, continued on-the-job training and formal training annually.
• Responsible for ensuring that all policies, guidelines, operational standards, regulations, and licensure requirements are followed and maintained; implements changes when necessary to ensure regulatory compliance. Monitored through case reviews, staff meetings, staff supervision, and informal/formal discussions with staff supervised.
• Addresses problems with staff privately and directly through initial verbal warnings and then proceeds with following agency disciplinary policies for further actions, if needed.
• Required to participate in initial hiring of positions supervised, provides input to higher management regarding staffing, provides annual performance reviews for each staff member supervised, and approves leave requests.
• Responsible for the quality of work provided by staff supervised.
• Must work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Maintains other duties assigned

Specific Knowledge, skills and abilities required:

• Master’s degree in social work from an appropriately accredited institution and one year of directly related experience; or a bachelor’s degree in social work from an appropriately accredited institution and two years of directly related experience; or a master’s degree in a human services field from an appropriately accredited institution and two years of directly related experience; or a bachelor’s degree in a human services field from an appropriately accredited institution and three years of directly related experience; or a bachelor’s degree from an appropriately accredited institution and four years of directly related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of methods and principles of foster care, casework supervision, and training.
• Considerable knowledge of social work principles, techniques and practices and their application to specific casework and community problems. Must have considerable knowledge of medical terminology and disease processes and/or behavioral and mental health diagnoses, developmental programs and behavior management techniques.
• Considerable knowledge of behavioral and socioeconomic problems and their treatment and governmental and private organizations and community resources.
• Considerable knowledge of the laws, regulations, and policies which govern social work programs.
• Ability to supervise, train, or orient social workers, students, interns, or other staff.
• Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely.
• Requires excellent writing and editing skills with attention to detail.
• Proficiency with Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Must maintain a positive and supportive working relationship with staff supervised.
• Hybrid work with designated office days, some travel required.