Foster Care Navigator
Foster Care Navigator
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29-08-2025
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29-08-2025
Job Description
POSITION DESCRIPTION
Foster Care Navigator AFPRR Program
Program: Adoptive and Foster Parent Recruitment and Retention Services (AFPRR also known as the RRT)
Reports To: Regional Resource Team Supervisor
Status: Full-Time
Location: Hillsdale/Branch
FLSA: Non-Exempt/Hourly
Our Mission: To provide expert comprehensive services that strengthen children adults and families impacted by abuse and neglect autism developmental behavioral and physical health challenges so they can achieve whole health well-being and maximum potential.
General Acknowledgement:
To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skills and /or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Job Summary:
The Foster Care Navigator/ Recruiter is responsible for providing direct support and guidance to current and prospective foster parents through in-person contact telephone contact and/or email depending on the needs of the foster parents.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Must be available to prospective foster families and assist them in navigating through the licensing process.
- Serve as liaison between the licensing worker or child placing agency and the current or prospective foster family when need for clarification.
- Responsible for Foster Care Recruitment and Retention Services
- Ability to work independently and meet job requirements
- Ability to Provide Foster Care Licensing Support Services to the county agencies
- Provide quality customer service primarily via phone and email
- Sensitive to the concerns of potential foster parents
- Ability to establish rapport quickly and effectively with families
- Ability to identify resources available to adoptive families statewide
- Ability to share personal experiences with foster care in a professional manner with the public
- Ability to maintain contract compliance
- Participates in required trainings.
- Attend all scheduled team meetings.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Job Qualifications:
- Personal experience with the child welfare system as a licensed foster adoptive relative or kinship caregiver
- Knowledge of child welfare policies and procedures
- Involvement in the local foster family community and foster family groups
- Ability to related to current and prospective adoptive foster and kinship families
- Ability to relate to local DHS and private agency personnel
- Ability to work a flexible schedule to accommodate families with whom the Foster Care Navigator works
- Ability to travel/work statewide as necessary
- Proficient in Microsoft Word Outlook and Excel.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to provide culturally competent services that shows sensitivity to the service populations cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
Core Competencies:
- Customer Service regularly respond to customers in a courteous and timely manner with focus on providing quality services.
- Job Knowledge demonstrate mastery of basic principles techniques and skills related to job consistently applying technical and procedural competence.
- Professionalism consistently present a positive image of self and the agency operating with integrity and credibility.
- Planning & Organization of Work reliably demonstrate time management skills through advance planning in order to deliver high quality work product within deadlines.
- Relationship / Leadership exhibit ability to develop cooperative relationships based on mutual respect and trust treating others fairly consistently listening openly and actively encouraging others to express candid and differing views.
- Judgement & Problem Solving show ability to review facts and information using sound judgment to arrive at the most effective solution and when appropriate seek supervisory assistance.
- Quality & Accuracy consistently present work product that is thorough accurate and effective in accomplishing intended purpose of assignments.
- Initiative & Independence demonstrate ability to effectively complete work tasks with minimal direction from supervisor and take initiative to increase effectiveness of work and that of the department.
- Reliability / Dependability exhibit consistency in performance and reliably follows through on tasks and assigned responsibilities.
- Temperament maintain emotional control a positive perspective and effectively respond to stress on the job.
Education Certificates Licenses Registrations:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Valid Michigan Drivers License appropriate insurance and use of own vehicle.
Working Conditions:
- Works in an office environment and in the community as needed.
- Position may require evening and weekend hours.
- Possible stressful environment working with families and court system.
- Fast paced enthusiastic and team oriented workplace.
Physical requirements:
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand sit communicate verbally and in writing hear and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard. Close vision requirements due to computer work. Regular predictable attendance is required.
Direct reports:
None
This description is intended to describe the type and level of work being performed by a person assigned to this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of a person so classified. The employee is expected to adhere to all company policies and perform other duties as assigned for the good of the consumers the program the department and the agency.
Employment Type
Full Time
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