FAMILY FINDER SPECIALIST - 60074738 1 1

State of Florida • Starke, FL

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position performs advanced family finding program efforts to discover, engage, plan, make decisions, and evaluate strategies to locate relatives and fictive kin. Additionally, this position is responsible for providing assistance with the completion of home study assessments on identified potential placements and engaging with the Judicial system, as appropriate, to support placement changes. The position is out of the Lake City Service center to cover Columbia and surrounding counties, but office location can be discussed and considered depending on space availability.

Requirements

• Knowledge in Florida's Practice model and Florida's official electronic systems of record, Florida Safe Family Network (FSFN)
• Familiar with the child welfare system
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills relative to diverse populations in academic, public health, and community settings.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple competing deadlines.
• Analytical, decision making, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Conducts extensive/advanced searches, such as case mining, mobility mapping, internet searches and cold calls, to locate adult relatives and fictive kin.
• Conducts home study assessments on identified potential placements and provides a recommendation the primary worker on placement consideration
• Collaborate with the child protective investigator to identify and build positive connections between the child and the child's relatives and fictive kin.
• Identify and build positive connections between the child and the child's relatives and fictive kin.
• Attends and participates in family finding group decision making which may include conducting a multidisciplinary meeting with all parties involved and prospective family members or fictive kin.
• Attend Case Transfer Staffing as needed to inform Child Welfare Professionals of current status of family finding efforts.
• Establishes and maintains cooperative working relationships with organizations and other agencies involved with child welfare such as community- Services, Children's Legal Services, Guardian ad Litem, schools, clinical professionals, and other community agency resources.
• Regularly reviews and identifies any changes to Florida Statutes, DCF Operational Procedures, Administrative Rule, and policies. Ensures participants are aware of changes, confidentiality, and HIPAA, and identifies potential problems related to case specifics.
• Engages with the Judiciary and Children's Legal Services/State Attorney's Office, as appropriate, the support placement changes

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed