Kinship Specialist - North FL
Kinship Specialist - North FL
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Kinship Specialist
Join our team at FSS and enjoy comprehensive benefits including but not limited to:
- Tuition Reimbursement: Earn up to $5250 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 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 major function of this position includes the initial licensing for level I kinship family foster homes and ensuring statutory licensing requirements and guidelines are met within a restricted timeframe. This position is responsible for working directly with caregivers to educate them of the benefits of Level I Licensure. This position will be working in partnership with child welfare professionals from the Department of Children and Families Family Support Services and our subcontracted case management organizations. This position will work closely with the FSS licensing and placement teams.
Essential Job Duties
- Responsible for contacting kinship caregivers within 48 business hours of assignment to schedule initial home visit to begin licensing process.
- Conduct initial home visit within 10 business days of assignment to kinship home to complete information gathering assessment of home complete required documents to begin writing of unified home study. Distributes team presentations and designs internal flyers posters invitations.
- Assist caregivers with completing licensing documentation as needed.
- Assist caregiver with accessing training modules and ensuring completion of required training.
- Conduct a final home visit if necessary to kinship home to collect paperwork take photos of home verify training completion and obtain signature on unified home study for packet finalization and submission to Kinship Supervisor within required timeframe.
- Responsible for timely submission of licensing packets to DCF with 100% of all completed licensing packets meeting FSS and DCF timeframe standards.
- Obtain and coordinate financial documentation required for childcare subsidy submission and distribution.
- Complete follow-up on deficient packets timely as directed usually within 24 hours.
- Responsible for ensuring effective communication and collaboration between professionals internal and external to organization.
- Ensures that records are maintained on all licensed homes and that all licensing information is accurate. Responsible for ensuring that all foster homes are in compliance with Florida state standards.
- All other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university.
- Prior experience with licensing and working with at risk children preferred.
- Valid drivers license. Current certification in First Aid and CPR is recommended. Florida child welfare case management certification is required for this position- active certification or ability to meet criteria for certification. Licensing certification preferred.
Schedule & Hours
Flexible Schedule Monday-Friday typically 8:30am-5pm. After-hours work may be required based on the caregivers availability. Hybrid schedule post training -2 days in office required for minimum of 5 hours per office day. Occasional Saturday for special foster parent events.
Qualifications
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 for our Duval and Nassau counties.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
