PLACEMENT SPECIALIST - North FL

Placement Specialist

Join our team at FSS and enjoy comprehensive benefits including but not limited to:

• Tuition Reimbursement: Earn up to $5,250 per qualifying year to invest in your education.
• Health Insurance: Choose from four comprehensive Florida Blue health insurance plans to keep you and your family covered.
• Dental Plan: Enjoy an employer-paid dental plan for our valued employees.
• Life Insurance: Your peace of mind matters to us. We provide employer-paid life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): a free, confidential resource, available to assist employees and their families in dealing with lifes challenges, and the demands of work/life balance.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Relax and recharge with our generous PTO plan.
• Paid Holidays: Enjoy the 12 holidays (to include 1 floating holiday) and unwind with family and friends to celebrate and rejuvenate!
• Well-Being Program: Stay healthy and engaged with our highly interactive well-being program. Employees can earn three additional PTO days per plan year by simply participating.
• 401k Plan: Secure your financial future with our 401k plan with employer contribution of 3%.
• Additional Benefits: Explore our range of benefits, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Vision Plan, Short & Long-Term Disability coverage, Employee Discounts, and more.

The mission of Family Support Services of North Florida is to be the leader in providing safety, stability, and quality of life for all children by working with the community to strengthen the family unit.

Job Summary

The status of this position is non-exempt under the Fair Labor Standard Act. Secure appropriate placement for foster children and facilitate placement stability. In addition to finding placement for foster children, the placement specialist assists in preventing children from coming into licensed care by ensuring the Foster Care Redesign model is followed by DCF Child Protection Investigator and CMO FSCs.

Job Duties

• Identify and make appropriate placements for children in foster care, by taking an active role in the arrangement of placements and providing assistance regarding difficult placement challenges.
• Ensure all children that are removed and placed into out-of-home care are placed in appropriate foster/ group home settings that are least restrictive. Responsible for keeping siblings together in placement whenever possible. Will conduct separated-sibling staffing with the FSS provider agencies when sibling placement is not possible.
• Ensure that all placements which result in the over cap of a home obtain verbal approval from FSS Placement Director or designated representative prior to the placement; followed by immediate submission of written request for waiver. Work cooperatively with FSS provider agencies and other service providing entities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university required.
• At least one year experience working with at risk children and families, preferably as a Case Manager, with 1-2 years experience with child welfare data systems.
• Child Welfare Professional certification preferred.

Schedule & Hours

• Mon-Friday 12:30pm-9:00pm
• Some on-call, including one weekday every week and two weekend days each month
• Competitive additional pay for evenings, weekends and holidays
• Hybrid schedule post training as schedule permits

FSS provides equal employment and advancement opportunity for all individuals without discrimination because of race, creed, color, gender, religion, age, national origin, disability, military status, marital status, or the other protected categories as defined by the EEOC and takes affirmative action in the implementation of this policy. If accommodation is needed in order to participate in the application process, please contact the Human Resources department at FSSHRDepartment@fssnf.org for our Duval and Nassau counties.