Fostering Futures Supervisor

Position Summary:

To supervise and provide delivery of services to foster parents to stabilize placements and avoid placement disruption by improving their abilities to care for behaviorally challenged youth. To ensure that staff provide information to foster parents on social and emotional adolescent development to help the caregiver understand the difference between age appropriate behaviors and those that may be problematic. To ensure that the Fostering Futures staff provide strategies to foster parents for defusing volatile situations and improving positive negotiation skills, and emphasize the importance of structure, accountability, and consistency. The Performance Target for Fostering Futures is to achieve greater stability for children through a decrease in placement disruption for at least one year. This position is supervised by the Community Services Director.

 

Responsibilities:

• Provide supervision and support to all staff assigned to Fostering Futures Program
• Maintain a therapy caseload as prescribed by the grant funder (1:12 or 1:15)
• Develop and maintain resource materials on parenting challenging children, child and adolescent development, anger management, discipline, natural consequences, negotiation skills, compromise, and other topics to serve as basis for Behavior Specialists' teaching
• Ensure that staff complete weekly 60 minute home visits with all assigned foster parents and foster children
• Ensure that staff respond to all crisis calls from foster families including having face-to-face contact with the foster parents and foster children
• Provide back-up for staff as needed to accommodate illness, vacation, and other crisis situations
• Ensure that staff provide services to foster parents to stabilize placements and avoid placement disruption by improving the foster parents' abilities to care for behaviorally challenged youth
• Ensure that staff provide information on social and emotional adolescent development and help the caregiver understand the difference between age appropriate behaviors and those that may be problematic
• Ensure that staff provide strategies for defusing volatile situations and improving positive negotiation skills
• Ensure that staff provide information emphasizing the importance of structure, accountability, and consistency
• Ensure that staff provide assessments to monitor progress of foster children participating in Fostering Futures Program
• Accompany staff on home visits when clinically indicated and for supervision to ensure high quality services
• Document all service delivery utilizing Great Circle approved software
• Complete monthly reporting to the grant funder and direct supervisor
• Become proficient with customer tracking system prescribed by the grant funder
• Be available on-call to provide consultation to staff and back-up when needed
• Complete evaluations on direct reports as required by agency policy
• Attend meetings related to Fostering Futures as requested by direct supervisor
• Other duties as assigned to assist Great Circle/Fostering Futures Program implementation and quality of care to families and children served

Education and Experience:

• All candidates for this position must possess a master's degree in social work (MSW), or other closely related master's degree (LPC, Ph.D.), and is licensed to provide therapy services in Missouri.
• Candidates must have experience with the foster care system and an extensive knowledge of child and adolescent development and parenting interventions.
• Candidates must have supervision experience.
• Strong written, verbal, organizational, and interpersonal skills are a must.
• Must possess a current, valid driver's license and meet the Great Circle requirements for insurance.