Treatment Foster Care Worker - Full-time

Children's Wisconsin•Milwaukee, WI

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Children’s Wisconsin provides child well-being services to help children live in safe, nurturing environments, support parents in improving their parenting skills, and serve children placed with foster families while they work toward reunification or adoption. The Treatment Foster Care Worker supports children and families through therapeutic intervention, treatment planning, coordination with teams and community partners, and services for foster families. Depending on the region, the position may also include foster home recruitment, licensing, education, and coordination of child placements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Social Work or a related field required.
At least 2 years of post-degree experience required.
Wisconsin driver’s license required.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Social Work or a related field preferred.
Child welfare experience preferred.
Experience working with families from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide culturally sensitive services that demonstrate awareness of clients’ cultural values and beliefs.
Facilitate and participate in teams, coordinating team membership and involvement.
Maintain positive working relationships with referral sources and community organizations.
Have face-to-face contact with children at least every other week.
Intervene therapeutically with Treatment Foster Care children and families.
Develop treatment plans with appropriate goals and measure progress quarterly.
Encourage and support client participation to build competence and confidence.
Support foster families and maintain communication with birth parents as the process progresses.
Manage multiple responsibilities and deadlines, remain flexible as caseload needs change, and complete required documentation.
As required by region, handle foster home licensing, retention, parent education, placement coordination, and community outreach to secure foster homes.
Recruit, train, and license foster homes in a timely manner; engage prospective foster parents in licensing and education; assess potential foster families through home studies and complete applicant background checks.
Coordinate marketing efforts and prepare internal, community, and client-relations communications with the Foster Home Recruiter.
Schedule and coordinate foster parent education sessions, present topics or arrange outside trainers, and obtain supervisor approval for speaker fees before confirming training dates.
Provide one-to-one foster parent education when needed and develop education plans for families who are out of compliance or based on the treatment issues they are interested in supporting.
Participate in treatment teams as needed to educate and support foster parents on child-specific issues before and after placement.
Accept and assess Treatment Foster Care placement referrals, match children with available treatment foster homes, and complete intake and placement requirements.
Coordinate pre-placement activities and placement plans with foster parents and team members to support timely, smooth placements.
Communicate effectively, consistently, and promptly with multiple referral sources and serve as an outreach liaison to surrounding counties and referral sources.