In-Home Administrator

State of Maryland • Harford, MD

8d • Onsite

About The Position

This position provides managerial administrative and clinical supervision for all In-Home Service including Screening, Child Protective Services, and Consolidated In-Home Services. This position provides direct Administrative and Clinical Supervision to six In-home Service Supervisors to ensure the safety, permanency and well-being of children and families. The Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS) is a team of more than 5,000 employees across the state dedicated to positively changing the lives of more than 1 million Marylanders each year by providing economic support, preventive services, and caring for children and adults. DHS aims to deliver services so that we more quickly meet the needs of the people we serve and foster a culture of bold innovation to ensure that no one is left behind in Maryland. This is a Management Service position, and serves at the pleasure of the Appointing Authority.

Requirements

• A Master’s degree in social work from an accredited college or university approved by the Council on Social Work Education.
• Seven years of professional experience in a social work capacity in a public or private agency or institution, five years must have been in an administrative supervisory or consultative capacity.
• Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience at a rank of Corporal/Petty Officer or higher as a commissioned officer in Social Work classifications or Social Work specialty codes in the Social Science, Psychology, and Welfare field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience and education.
• One year of experience ensuring compliance with court orders and permanency timelines.

Nice To Haves

• Three years of experience working in Child Welfare environment
• One year of Supervisory experience
• One year experience in the Child, Juvenile and Adult Management System.
• Possession of an LCSW-C License
• Candidates for positions in this classification must be licensed by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners.
• Employees assigned duties which require the operation of a motor vehicle are required to possess a motor vehicle operator’s license valid in the State of Maryland.

Responsibilities

• Ensures policy, regulations, State and Federal law to develop local continuum of In-home services that assures the safety permanency and well-being of children in out of home placements.
• Implement programming for new initiatives to enhance outcomes for children and families as directed and allowed by DHR/SSA/HCDSS.
• Creates budgets and spending plans for in-home services funding allocations according to guidelines.
• Coordinated services between In-Home Services, Adult Services and Out of Home Services to assure continuity of service provision to children and families served by the agency.
• Provides clinical and programmatic supervision of six In-Home services supervisors.
• Manage staff resources to ensure caseloads are balanced and mandated in-home services are provided to children and families according to policy and regulations.
• Participates in statewide, Agency and community committees to enhance partnership, resources and supports to the In-Home Services continuum.
• Identifies areas of professional growth for supervisors and develops a plan that provides opportunities for enhancing the supervisory skill set.
• Coordinates services between CPS, In-Home Services, Adult Services and Out-of-Home Services to ensure continuity of service provision to children, families, and vulnerable adults/disabled persons served by the agency.
• Provides customer service to both internal and external customers that meets or exceeds standards set by the Department.
• Performs personnel functions including determining Out-of-Home staff needs and offering recommendations to address those needs, providing coaching and training to staff, interviewing prospective employees as part of a panel of interviewers, making hiring recommendations, monitoring leave usage as well as compensatory time/overtime accruals, and evaluating/correcting employee performance following Human Resources policies and State Personnel regulations.

Benefits

• health insurance
• dental
• vision plans
• Personal Leave - six (6) personnel days annually (prorated based on start date)
• Annual Leave - ten (10) days of accumulated annual leave per year.
• Sick Leave - fifteen (15) days of accumulated sick leave per year.
• Parental Leave - up to sixty (60) days of paid parental leave upon the birth or adoption of a child.
• Holidays - at least thirteen (13) holidays per year.
• Pension - State employees earn credit towards a retirement pension.

What This Job Offers

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