PLACEMENT SPECIALIST

CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC•Greenville, NC

21h

About The Position

The Children’s Home Society Placement Specialist ensures that the needs of children in foster and adoptive placements are met by delivering comprehensive permanency services to children and licensed or adoptive families, including therapeutic foster care. The role includes facilitating placements and associated visitation, case management, documentation, data entry, program support, public relations, outreach, and recruitment. The specialist provides foster care and adoption services, maintains licensed-home records, conducts required visits, and communicates with foster and adoptive families. The position also coordinates placements, respite care, and information about children; provides monthly visitation and case management to children in foster care; and supports therapeutic foster care placements through weekly clinical supervision, authorizations, treatment-team participation, and required Medicaid/MCO documentation. The role includes timely database documentation, preparation for audits and licensing reviews, participation in quality-improvement activities, supervision, training, and departmental meetings, and collaboration with staff on family support and events. The position requires frequent travel, occasional evening and weekend work, and flexibility to meet business needs. If working remotely, the employee must be available by telephone and email during specified hours.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in social work or a related human services field from an accredited college or university.
Two to five years of child welfare services experience.
Ability to work independently in a professional work environment while meeting deadlines.
Excellent oral and written communication skills and effective organizational and time-management skills.
Intermediate computer skills, including Microsoft applications, electronic data systems, timesheets, expense reports, and virtual meeting platforms.
Physical ability to use standard office equipment, transport clients in a personal vehicle, conduct on-site visits, and lift or move up to 25 pounds.
Valid North Carolina driver’s license, adequate auto insurance, and access to an operating vehicle for CHS business.
Availability for occasional evening and weekend hours and ability to work flexible hours to meet business needs.
Ability to meet specified telephone and email availability requirements when working remotely.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in social work.
TIPS-MAPP/Deciding Together training.
State Foster Care Licensing training.

Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive foster care and adoption services, including pre-placement assessment updates and pre- and post-placement services for CHS clients or clients of other agencies under contract.
Maintain records for all licensed homes on the caseload, conduct mandatory quarterly visits, and communicate consistently with foster and adoptive families as required by contracts.
Collaborate with the Program Supervisor and/or Senior Program Director to select homes for children, arrange respite care, and coordinate information before foster or adoptive placements.
Provide adoption services for foster parents adopting children receiving CHS foster care services in their homes.
Provide monthly visitation and case management for children in foster care, including program assessments and comprehensive foster care services.
Support therapeutic foster care placements with weekly clinical supervision, maintain authorizations, participate in treatment teams and required meetings, and complete required Medicaid/MCO documentation in the client database.
Enter data and required case documentation into the Echo/Binti client database by the last day of the month and submit it to the Program Supervisor by the fifth day of the following month.
Prepare for annual and follow-up audits by State Department of Social Services representatives, Managed Care Organizations, and other licensing or regulatory entities.
Participate in the Continuous Quality Improvement process and required supervision.
Collaborate with staff to provide support services and plan annual social events for foster and adoptive families.
Provide social work assistance to other Permanency programs when requested by supervising staff or the agency.
Follow the applicable professional code of ethics and Child Welfare League professional standards.
Participate in outreach, including media contacts, speakers’ bureaus, volunteer activities, fundraising, advocacy, public awareness events, and networking with agencies on adoption issues.
Contribute to a positive work environment; demonstrate sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics; and reflect CHS’s mission, vision, and values in job duties.
Stay current on job-related issues and trends and participate in departmental meetings, training, education, and quality activities.
Comply with CHS’s code of conduct, policies, procedures, and other obligations; perform other duties related to agency and departmental goals as needed.
Travel frequently for business-related activities, conduct on-site visits, and transport clients in the employee’s own vehicle.
Work flexible hours, including some evenings and weekends, and be available by telephone and email during specified hours if working remotely.