Treatment Foster Care Worker

At Children’s Wisconsin, we believe kids deserve the best. Every child deserves a safe and loving home. When parents are unable to provide this on their own, intervention is needed to ensure these children are free of abuse and neglect. We provide child well-being services to help children live in a safe and nurturing environment. We provide services to parents needing education and guidance to improve their parenting skills so their children can remain with them.

We also provide services to children who are placed with foster families until they can return home or become part of an adoptive family.

Our experienced professionals provide the following services to families in Milwaukee County and at locations throughout Wisconsin.

• Foster Care Treatment
• Foster Care Adoption
• Respite Care
• Child Advocacy Centers
• Family Case Management
• Family Finding

We offer a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities and are seeking individuals dedicated to helping us achieve our vision of the healthiest kids in the country.

Essential Functions Provides service in a manner that demonstrates awareness and sensitivity the client’s cultural values and beliefs. Facilitates and works as part of a team and coordinates team membership and involvement. Maintains positive working relationships with referral source and community organizations to best serve the needs of the clients. Provides face‑to‑face contact with children minimally every other week. Intervenes in a therapeutic manner with TFC children and families.

Develops treatment plans with appropriate goal setting, and measures outlined goals on a quarterly basis. Encourages and supports client participation to develop competence and confidence. Provides necessary support and services to the foster families, while maintaining open communication with the birth parents as the process progresses. Must be able to handle multiple responsibilities with varying deadlines, and be flexible to accept other responsibilities as assigned and as the position caseload demands.

Completes required paperwork/documentation.

OTHER FUNCTIONS AS REQUIRED BY REGION:
Dependent on region, the role of this position could be multi‑facetted to include all or some of the following: foster home licensing responsibilities, retention of foster homes, foster parent education, coordination of placement of children into foster homes, and community involvement with the ability to secure new foster homes.

The placement coordinator role matches the needs of children awaiting placement with families who are best suited to meet each child’s unique needs. Placement coordination ensures timely and well‑coordinated foster placements and the best use of placement resources. Serves as an outreach liaison to surrounding counties/referral sources to develop relationships, share information about placement resources, and facilitate placement referrals. Efficient, consistent communication and partnership with referral sources is an important element to the placement coordination role.

Recruits, trains and licenses foster homes in a timely manner. Engages potential foster parents in the foster home licensing and education process. Completes assessment of potential foster families as part of licensing home study process. Completes background checks on foster home applicants. Coordinates marketing efforts with Foster Home Recruiter. Schedules and coordinates foster parent education sessions, either by presenting on topics or coordinating outside trainers/speakers to teach on topic areas related to Treatment Foster Care.

Obtains supervisor’s approval for speaker fee prior to formalizing the training date. As needed, provides one to one education to foster parents at the foster parent’s home or at the agency.…