[Hiring] FT Care Coordinator - Foster Care @Miracle Hill Ministries

Role Description This role involves coordinating and supervising care coordination, case planning, individual service activity, and required documentation for assigned foster families and children.

• Conduct Intake and Discharge Procedures for foster children
• Monitor adjustment, well-being, and progress of children in placement on your caseload
• Meet with children and foster parents at least once face to face each month and contact regularly as needed to advocate for and assist children with placement issues, behaviors, plan of care goals, and progress
• Ensure that Foster parents are meeting all licensing and contract regulations
• Conduct staffing with participating agencies, staff, youth, and families as required for service delivery
• Ensure Family involvement, visitation with the child/youth's family of origin, unless prohibited by the court
• Act as Miracle Hill agency liaison with the referring agencies, local schools, community resources, and providers
• Complete Documentation and update before deadlines including care plans, progress information, and maintain child files as required by agency and state standards
• Adhere to all regulatory standards and Miracle Hill Ministries policies
• Prepare critical incident reports and submit them to DSS staff
• Participate in on-call rotation and respond to crises or emergency situations
• Advocate for children and assist children and foster parents with behavior interventions, placement stability, and success for youth
• Assist with investigating allegations of abuse/neglect relating to MH foster parents as requested by Director
• Assist in goal achievement for individual service plans
• Share the good news of Jesus Christ, give a personal testimony, and pray with/for those served by the ministry
• This is a Full-time position that will require a significant amount of telecommuting/remote working
• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications

• Master's degree in social work or other related areas of study and one year of experience working with the population served; or a Bachelor's degree in social work or other related areas of study and two years of experience working with the population served
• Closely related fields acceptable in meeting these qualifications include social work, counseling, psychology, sociology, criminal justice, and recreational therapy
• Specialized training required: CPR/First Aid, Behavior intervention, medication administration training, trauma informed training, prudent parenting training
• Ability to deal with highly stressful situations and persons who may be stressed
• Ability to exercise judgment and discretion in interpreting and applying various procedures and guidelines
• Training in providing services to children/youth exhibiting medical, developmental, and/or behavior problems and in supervisory role of those caring for children

Requirements

• Must become Certified Adoptions Specialist within 6 months

Religious

• As an evangelical Christian ministry, Miracle Hill values its rights under federal law to hire individuals who share the Christian faith and the ministry's doctrinal beliefs
• To be considered for employment, ALL APPLICANTS MUST read and agree with our Doctrinal Statement and Employment Qualifications

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