Community Care Worker

Department ofHealth and Human Services (DHHS)

Resource Family/Foster Care Licensing

Opening Date: April 1 2025

Closing Date: April 14 2025

Job Class Code: 5088

Grade: 21 (Pro & Tech. Svcs.

Salary: $21.54 $30.14 per hour

Position Number: 0

Location: Bangor

Core Responsibilities:

As a Community Care Worker you will ensure resource family home applicants meet required standards to be approved as a licensed resource family capable of providing foster adoptive and/or permanency guardianship services to children in care of the Department. With the Departments focus on prioritizing placement of children with kinship families you will be expected to explain the resource approval process to placement families and actively support these families through the steps to become an approved resource. Your duties will include:

1. Conducting home studies foster home investigations to determine possible violations or kinship assessments for relatives and fictive kin placements
2. Assisting in securing placements for youth entering care through OCFS utilizing available resources and best placement practices.
3. Playing a key role in providing information to teams about strengths which an approved resource family can contribute toward meeting the needs of a specific child.
4. Providing ongoing support to resource family applicants and approved resource families
5. Recruiting and providing training and support to resource families.

This work requires frequent overtime emergency kinship coverage and other overtime according to operational need. Additionally this position regularly travels within the geographic area served by the District Office.

Minimum Qualifications:

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Agency information:

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is dedicated to promoting health safety resilience and opportunity for Maine people. The Department provides health and social services to approximately a third of the States population including children families older Mainers and individuals with disabilities mental illness and substance use disorders. The Department also promotes public health operates two state psychiatric hospitals and provides oversight to health care providers.

The Office of Child & Family Services (OCFS) within DHHS is responsible for ensuring the safety permanency and wellbeing of children and families through community networks local resources and lifelong family connections throughout Maine.

Application Information:

Please submit all documents or files in PDF format.

For additional information about this position please contact Katie Noyes CPS Caseworker Supervisor at.

To apply please upload a recent resume (if available) and cover letter addressing each of the preferred skills/experience areas above.

To request a paper application please contact

Benefits of working for the State of Maine:

No matter where you work across Maine state government you find employees who embody our state mottoDirigo or I leadas they provide essential services to Mainers every day. We believe in supporting our workforces health and wellbeing with a valuable total compensation package including:

• WorkLife Fit Rest is essential. Take time for yourself using 13 paid holidays 12 days of sick leave and 3 weeks of vacation leave annually. Vacation leave accrual increases with years of service and overtimeexempt employees receive personal leave.
• Health Insurance Coverage The State of Maine pays 8595 of employeeonly premiums $11196.96 $12514.32 annual value) depending on salary. Use this chart to find the premium costs for you and your family including the percentage of dependent coverage paid by the State.
• Dental Insurance The State of Maine pays 100 of employeeonly dental premiums $387.92 annual value).
• Retirement Plan The State contributes the equivalent of 13.29 of the employees pay towards the Maine Public Employees Retirement System (MainePERS).

• Parental leave is one of the most important benefits for any working parent. All employees who are welcoming a childincluding fathers and adoptive parentsreceive six weeks of fully paid parental leave. Additional unpaid leave may also be available under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

State employees are eligible for anextensive and highly competitive benefits package covering many aspects of wellness. Learn about additional wellness benefits for State employees from the Office of Employee Health and Wellness.

Note: Benefits may vary somewhat according to specific collective bargaining agreements and are prorated foranything less than fulltime.

Theres a job and then theres purposeful transformative work. Our aim is to create a workplace where you can learn grow and continuously refine your skills. Applicants demonstrate job requirements in differing ways and we appreciate that many skills and backgrounds can make people successful in this role.

As an Equal Opportunity employer Maine State Government embraces a culture of respect and awareness. We are committed to creating a strong sense of belonging for all team members and our process ensures an inclusive environment to applicants of all backgrounds including diverse race color sex sexual orientation or gender identity physical or mental disability religion age ancestry national origin familial status or genetics.

If youre looking for a great next step and want to feel good about what you do wed love to hear from you. Please note reasonable accommodations are provided to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request.