This position is eligible for a $2,500 Hiring Bonus!
At Denali Family Services we serve children who require intensive behavioral health care services and support for their families. Denali Family Services offers individual, family and group psychotherapy services in combination with intensive care coordination and individualized support across many settings.
Denali Family Services offers an excellent benefits package including health insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision), 403(B) retirement plan with an employer match, employer paid Life/Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance, 11 paid holidays, 2 floating holidays, generous leave accrual, paid volunteer leave, bereavement leave, pet bereavement leave, longevity awards, education assistance, EAP (Employee Assistance Program) and more!
Provide all state licensing requirements and consultative services to treatment foster parents. Provide training for treatment foster home placements, including all financials, placement agency licenses, and statistics. Provide administrative supervision to treatment foster parents.
This position is responsible for observing policies, procedures and safeguards to protect the privacy of health information in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy (Privacy Rule).
Essential Functions:
• Oversee the foster care licensing process, ensuring all foster homes and parents meet state and agency compliance standards.
• Assist with the screening of pre-application inquiries and support the licensing process in accordance with established state regulations and agency procedures.
• Provide training, guidance, and ongoing consultation to foster parents regarding licensing requirements, agency expectations, and established foster care procedures.
• Monitor foster homes for compliance with state licensing standards and agency policies and report findings, concerns, or corrective needs to the Foster Care Director.
• Conduct on-site program assessments, process waiver requests, document findings, and formulate recommendations for license insurance, denial/revocation, or injunctive actions.
• Conduct or assist with complaint/allegation investigations, conduct monthly supervisory home visits, and provide post-licensing issuance consultation.
• Serve as a liaison between the agency, local department of child welfare, and advocacy/support groups.
• Serve as a resource person to licensed providers; and identify and facilitate use of other resources to upgrade performance of foster homes.
• Participate in preparing orientation packets and informational newsletters.
• Assist with the implementation of established foster care policies and procedures under the direction of the Foster Care Director.
• Provide quality assurance and approval of foster parent medical documentation.
• Maintain foster parent files to ensure compliance with licensing standards.
• Authenticate foster parent stipends for payment and oversee the coordination and documentation of foster care placements.
• Provide supervision to foster parents.
• Attend departmental meetings and trainings as assigned and participate in cross-team coordination related to foster care operations.
• Assist with the implementation of established foster care policies and procedures under the direction of the Foster Care Director.
Other Duties & Responsibilities:
• Interview potential foster parents.
• Conduct orientation and training for new foster parents.
• Maintain agency foster care placement license
• Attend and participate in meetings, committees and trainings as assigned.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with two (2) years of experience in human services, business, or management.
Preferred: A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in social work, human services, psychology, business, management or a closely related field with three (3) years of experience in family and children’s services, child protection/welfare or other out of home care environment which involved working with children and adolescents identified with developmental disabilities and/or as severely emotionally disturbed, or in business or management.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Knowledge in foster care and licensing protocols and applicable laws.
• Ability to positively influence others to achieve goals and objectives.
• Leadership capabilities with the ability to align with a team with the organization’s mission and achieve established goals and objectives.
• Ability to train, evaluate and supervise employees.
• Ability to interview and recommend potential candidates.
• Must have excellent written and oral communication skills, sound clinical and therapeutic skills and the ability to accurately document events, provide detailed records for consumers and work with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to maintain positive professional working relationships and to work effectively within a team environment.
• Organized, efficient, and able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and good written communication.
• Ability to ensure consumer and employee confidentiality as prescribed by agency policy and federal law
• Proficient with Microsoft applications and possess the ability to learn other software applications.
• Knowledge and understanding all agency protocol, policy, procedure, plans program requirements.
• Ability to act decisively and with fairness.
• Ability to read, speak and write in English
• Ability to pass a State and FBI background check in accordance with the State of Alaska Background Checking Unit.
Physical Requirements: Ability to perform sedentary work. Visual acuity necessary to utilize a computer monitor throughout the course of a normal workday. Ability to perform repetitive keyboarding activities and operate general office equipment. Ability to communicate verbally, both in person and over the telephone. Must have visual and hearing acuity.
Working Conditions: Work is performed in a community mental health center and in foster parent homes.
Other Requirements: ability to obtain CPR and First Aid certification, continual proof of a valid Alaska Driver’s License, maintain current personal vehicle insurance and registration on personal vehicle(s) used for company business, maintain a violation free driving record for the past year, maintain satisfactory criminal background record and be at least 21 years old due to driving on company business.