Foster Care Licensing Supervisor at Guiding Harbor – Belleville, Michigan

Location: Belleville, MI

Department: Foster Care

Reports to: Program Manager

FLSA Status: Full Time Exempt

Job purpose

The Foster Care Licensing Supervisor is responsible for the recruitment, training and assessment and certification of prospective foster homes and to supervise Licensing staff.

Duties and responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Responsible for foster parent support groups and an annual recruitment/retention meeting with foster parents.
• Initiate public speaking engagements for recruitment of homes and recruitment through cable, news, radio, advertisements, flyers, etc. 12 times a calendar year.
• Responsible for community contacts and community networking
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with administrators, referral agencies, and other agencies and professionally represent Guiding Harbor.
• Ensure that foster parents are oriented, trained and licensed and coordinate all training events.
• Implement foster parent requirements for corrective action, foster parent agency agreement and foster care compliance record.
• Assure foster parent requirements with corrective actions & foster parent agency agreement.
• Provide direct service to cases as needed to ensure continuous service provision to foster parents, as required by licensing and funding bodies.
• Complete Initial Evaluation and Re-evaluations in a timely manner.
• Responsible for annual foster home visits (minimum) & phone contact as often as needed
• Investigate all licensing complaints per DHHS requirements in a timely manner.
• Audit foster parent & client files quarterly to ensure completeness, timeliness, and compliance with adherence to licensing standards, accreditation, and policies; make recommendations and assure corrective action as needed.
• Assist with placement preparation, intake and replacement of clients into foster homes.
• Attend and participate in meetings and trainings as assigned.
• Responsible for all DHHS spreadsheets pertaining to case assignment, case management and as assigned by COO or CEO.
• Provide effective supervision, consultation, training, guidance and leadership to program staff.
• Assists staff in identifying and meeting quarterly performance goals, objectives and program evaluation.
• Coordinates and supervises CQI and all data collection for assigned program.
• Reviews and creates program policies and procedures to maintain licensing standards, accreditation, and policy
• Read, Review and signoff on reports in accordance with licensing standards, accreditation, and policy
• Provide monthly supervision to staff; document supervisory meeting minutes and maintain for audits and/ or CARF review.
• Ensure that staff participate in appropriate trainings as assigned.
• Review and authorize staff time sheets every two weeks.

Skills and Qualifications

• Master’s degree preferred with a major in human behavioral science or a related field
• 3-4 years of experience as a social service worker in an agency, child caring institution, or in an agency in a child welfare function.
• Knowledge of the child welfare system, licensing and juvenile court procedures.
• Must be highly motivated and flexible
• Must display sophisticated writing and interpersonal communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work independently or with a team.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook, Project

Working conditions

• This job operates in a clerical office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
• Responsible to work with On-Call when there is an emergency and perform On-Call duties as needed.
• May be required to work nights and Weekends and have a flexible schedule.
• This position requires travel; Must have reliable transportation and maintain a good driving record.

Physical requirements

• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and extensive reading.
• Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
• Positions in this class typically require fingering, grasping, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.
• May be exposed to hazardous materials found in a home or general office environment.
• Use of household cleaning products and disinfectants may be required.

Direct reports

This position is responsible for the supervision of up to five staff.