CHILD PROTECTIVE FIELD SUPPORT CONSULTAN - 60074884

State of Florida • Fort Lauderdale, FL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This is advanced professional work assessing and developing Child Protective Investigators (CPIs) to ensure possession of the appropriate level of professional competencies. This position will work in cooperation with CPI Supervisors and management in promoting the development of knowledge, skills, and their application for CPIs.

Requirements

• Currently employed by the Florida Department of Children & families in Child Welfare.
• Current Florida Child Welfare Certification.
• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• 2 years of child protective investigative related experience.
• Experience managing, coaching and evaluating the work practices of Child Protective Investigators.
• CPI mentoring experience.

Nice To Haves

• CPI mentoring experience.
• Experience with casework reviews of child welfare practices.
• Experience in classroom setting, training child welfare workers.

Responsibilities

• Observe and document investigator casework activities in providing protective investigations, assessment of service needs, and referrals to service providers.
• Provide qualitative, performance reviews and assessments of child welfare practices.
• Reviews casework, assessments and safety plans with investigators, and provides consultation and direction to ensure appropriateness, clarity, quality, thoroughness and proper documentation.
• Provides real-time support/guidance by scheduling field assessments (random and scheduled) during investigative activities conducted by CPIs to provide on-the-job training.
• Assist, coordinate and conduct preservice specialty track trainings for the Southeast Region.
• Assist in providing guidance to investigators by coaching, motivating, modeling and providing other mentoring initiatives.
• Coach and assist CPIs with documenting aspects of investigations (i.e., chronological entry of case summaries), in which support was provided to investigators, by updating the appropriate information systems.
• Observe, analyze, and evaluate individual CPI performance to determine their effectiveness and level of competency and provide recommendations to regional management regarding actions to improve performance.
• Serves as member of leadership team responsible for developing and delivery of CPI training and development issues or concerns.
• Provide recommendations to the Department’s Program Office on enhancements to both CPI pre-service and in-service training to ensure the development and maintenance of a comprehensive and relevant training curriculum.
• Establishes and maintains cooperative working relationships with organizations and other agencies involved with child protective investigations such as community-based providers, Children’s Legal Services, law enforcement, medical personnel, schools, and other community/agency resources.
• Ensures effective communication with deaf or hard-of hearing customers or companions in accordance with the ADA and/or Section 504 and shall manage service records and report this data and any resources and/or training needs to their designated program point of contact.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on child protective investigations.
• The position will perform all job tasks in accordance with laws, rules, regulations, policies, and requirements applicable to state and federal laws or procedures.

Benefits

• The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior