Foster Care Supervisor in Lincoln County, Nebraska at Guardian Light Family Services

Guardian Light Family Services is lighting the path towards a healthy and positive family lifestyle through exceptional service to communities in Nebraska.

GLFS is excited to announce we have a Foster Care Supervisor position available.

The Foster Care Supervisor is responsible for managing the Foster Care Specialist/Foster Care Support Worker; assisting with quality control; conducting hiring, training, performance evaluations, corrective and disciplinary actions grievances, and incident reports in collaboration with the Human Resources Director. The Foster Care Supervisor will also be responsible for assisting with Foster Care Case management (tracking referrals, discharges, managing caseloads, overseeing mileage and overtime approvals); growing the team by obtaining new DHHS referrals; assisting with marketing the Foster Care Program; increasing and retaining the number of new employees; and other duties as assigned.

The expected Outcomes of this position are to grow the Foster Care team; motivate and assist the Foster Care Team to achieve the program goals; and collaborate with the GLFS Leadership team to provide development, support, and disciplinary actions as necessary for staff.

Skills required to fulfill this role successfully:

• Ability to supervise and develop others to meet their job performance guidelines, while holding them accountable and coaching them for success
• Strong ability to network in communities, groups, and organizations to develop professional relationships for potential new hires, referrals, and other community resources.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment:

1. Multi-tasking between phone, emails, and texting with exceptional documentation.
2. While actively acquiring new referrals and following up on the execution and fulfillment of staff assignments.

• Professional ability to meet all required reporting deadlines and strong organizational skills
• Leadership and ability to take initiative
• Ability to take feedback and work as a team with Leadership
• Confidentiality

• Supervisory experience required, human services-related field highly preferred
• Bachelor's Degree in Human Services and experience in child welfare programming required
• Ability to travel required; Most of the work is completed from a home office location