Foster Care Supervisor

One More Child

About The Position

The Foster Care Supervisor oversees the day-to-day operations of their assigned area, ensuring compliance with licensing, local contracts, governing agencies, and One More Child policies, procedures, and processes. The role manages the area foster care team and program, supervising and coordinating efforts to make it the most effective. The supervisor provides an additional layer of support for the local foster parents and homes and licensing requirements, spending time doing day travel in the field as necessary. Additionally, the supervisor understands team goals, coaching and motivating the team to meet or exceed them.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in social work or a comparable human service field
CWLC (Child Welfare Licensing Counselor), CWCM, or CWCPI full certification through the Florida Certification Board is required within one (1) year of completion of pre-service training with passed post-test within two attempts.
Two years social work experience, preferably in family foster care or kinship care.
Florida Driver’s License within 30 days of hire.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in social work or comparable field.
Experience in hiring, supervising, and budgeting.
Existing CWLC, CWCM, or CWCPI certification through the Florida Certification Board.

Responsibilities

Achieve, maintain and aim to exceed local Foster Care Program capacity goals.
Train and enforce compliance with all OMC, related agency, and/or licensing requirements, as well as local contract specific provisions and applicable statutes or codes.
Conduct periodic foster home inspections and client record audits to confirm compliance.
Implement foster family recruitment and retention strategies, with initial licensing and re-licensing processes, and supervise local foster home placements.
Manage team to provide broad assistance for all current foster families, including 24-hour on-call support, as well as 24-hour availability to receive/process placement calls or inquiries.
Confirm that every child placed in an OMC foster home for 30 days or more has a documented exposure to the Gospel.
Maintain a cooperative relationship with community agencies, local referral and funding sources.
Adhere to monthly program budget, ensuring that program expenditures remain within the budgeted allocations and that budgeted income is billed/received, including the collection of all available third-party payments and client fees.
Work with the Regional Director to explore/pursue contracts or funding for local foster care services.
Participate in continuing education opportunities to meet all annual training requirements for certification, OMC standards, governing statutes, codes, and/or local agencies.
Represent OMC at booths/speaking events, as well as internal meetings, as assigned.
Perform all other duties as assigned
Recruit, hire, train, evaluate and supervise foster care staff for the local foster care program.
Supervise ongoing training for staff, providing education opportunities, in conjunction with the Regional Director and other programs, and ensuring fulfillment of annual certification and recertification requirements.