Placement Supervisor - Long-Term Foster Care

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains is a nonprofit, human services agency committed to community safety, support, and resiliency. Since 1948, LFSRM has provided support, guidance, and resource coordination to individuals and families, regardless of race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age through family and refugee services. We believe that all people, from the newborn to the most elderly, are valued members of our community.

If you want to impact your community while serving alongside other amazing professionals, Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains welcomes you to apply.

The Long-Term Foster Care (LTFC) program at Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains (LFSRM) provides care and support to youth from other countries, who are here on their own, as they wait for their immigration case to be resolved so they can transition to a more long term program or living arrangement. The youth are placed with licensed foster families and attend public school while they are in the program, allowing them to have more normalized experiences in family based environment.

The Placement Supervisor is responsible for the certification of foster care homes and the placements of youth in foster homes. This position will provide direct supervision to the members of the case management team. Additionally, this position will be expected to provide casework and supportive services directly to a small caseload. This position will be required to maintain communication with stakeholders in an effective and timely manner to ensure case continuity.

The Placement Supervisor is required to maintain a flexible, organized, and efficient work schedule and is subject to work extended hours and weekends.

Occupational Competencies

• Meet standards of practice:
  Familiarity with social work practice, human development, child welfare system and family systems, including appropriate local, state, and federal regulatory rules.
• Apply case management:
  Familiarity with assessment, care planning, facilitation, coordination, and advocating for supports on behalf of and in collaboration with an individual.
• Apply crisis intervention:
  Experience with crisis management, problem solving, and mediation best practices.
• Legal requirements:
  Familiarity with the legal system as it applies to child welfare.
• Deliver services within diverse cultural communities:
  Skills and sensitivity in working with youth and families from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds with a variety of challenges.
• Communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields:
  Ability to communicate professionally and cooperate with members of the other professions involved with the youth.

Foundational Competencies

• Active Listening:
  Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Critical Thinking:
  Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Social Perceptiveness:
  Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Service Orientation:
  Actively looking for ways to help people.

• Oversees the study of potential foster families using the SAFE tool to determine the character and suitability of the applicants, appropriateness of the home and child care practices; assists with home study preparation.
• Reviews and signs home assessments including updates, renewals, and addenda; issue certificates; and post- placement reports.
• Oversees appropriate medical services for the children placed in care.
• Provides and documents monthly supervision of placement workers to review all home studies in process, certifications in renewal status, and current placement activity.
• Assesses potential placements based on information provided by counties and other referral agencies.
• Accompanies placement workers to pre-placement and placement visits between foster families and children, when possible.
• Conducts file reviews of foster parents and…