Description

Placement Specialist

Join our team at FSS and enjoy comprehensive benefits including but not limited to:

• Tuition Reimbursement: Earn up to $5,250 per qualifying year to invest in your education.
• Health Insurance: Choose from three comprehensive Florida Blue health insurance plans to keep you and your family covered.
• Dental Plan: Enjoy an employer-paid dental plan for our valued employees.
• Life Insurance: Your peace of mind matters to us. We provide employer-paid life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): a free, confidential resource, available to assist employees and their families in dealing with life’s challenges, and the demands of work/life balance.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Relax and recharge with our generous PTO plan.
• Paid Holidays: Enjoy the 12 holidays (to include 1 floating holiday) and unwind with family and friends to celebrate and rejuvenate!
• Well-Being Program: Stay healthy and engaged with our highly interactive well-being program. Employees can earn three additional PTO days per plan year by simply participating.
• 401k Plan: Secure your financial future with our 401k plan with employer contribution of 3%.
• Additional Benefits: Explore our range of benefits, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Vision Plan, Short & Long-Term Disability coverage, Employee Discounts, and more.

The mission of Family Support Services of North Florida is to be the leader in providing safety, stability, and quality of life for all children by working with the community to strengthen the family unit.

Job Summary

The status of this position is non-exempt under the Fair Labor Standard Act. Secure appropriate placement for foster children and facilitate placement stability. In addition to finding placement for foster children, the placement specialist assists in preventing children from coming into licensed care by ensuring the Foster Care Redesign model is followed by DCF Child Protection Investigator and CMO FSC’s.

Job Duties

• Identify and make appropriate placements for children in foster care, by taking an active role in the arrangement of placements and providing assistance regarding difficult placement challenges.
• Ensure all children that are removed and placed into out-of-home care are placed in appropriate foster/ group home settings that are least restrictive. Responsible for keeping siblings together in placement whenever possible. Will conduct separated-sibling staffing with the FSS provider agencies when sibling placement is not possible.
• Ensure that all placements which result in the over cap of a home obtain verbal approval from FSS Placement Director or designated representative prior to the placement; followed by immediate submission of written request for waiver. Work cooperatively with FSS provider agencies and other service providing entities.
• Submission of all Kids Central forms/documents within the expected time frame to include age-out plans for children turning 18 and leaving foster care. Title IVE Redeterminations regarding placement changes and yearly redeterminations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required.
• At least one year experience working with at risk children and families, preferably as a Case Manager, with 1-2 years’ experience with child welfare data systems.
• Child Welfare Professional certification preferred.

Schedule & Hours

• Mon-Friday 12:30pm-9:00pm
• Some on-call, including one weekday every week and two weekend days each month
• Competitive additional pay for evenings, weekends and holidays
• Hybrid schedule post training as schedule permits

Qualifications

Family Support Services team members follow 5 core values:

Partnership:At FSS, a belief that we are better together is core to who we are. Partnership is an essential component of a healthy system of care. Our team is committed to a respectful, open-minded, collaborative approach to co-creating solutions with the community. This extends to the children and families we serve as well.

Excellence:FSS challenges ourselves to always strive for better on behalf of those we serve. We foster innovative practices, encourage continuous quality improvement, and engage in strategic planning with our partners to achieve the highest possible outcomes for children, families, and the community.

Accountability: FSS recognizes our leadership role within the system of care and strives to be accountable to the community by being trustworthy partners. FSS is committed to ethical and transparent practices, and to operate with integrity as we pursue positive outcomes.

Compassion:We recognize that we often meet families at their most challenging moment and people are more than the sum of their circumstances. We provide trauma-sensitive care for the children and families in our system to reach their full potential. We embrace a service leadership approach and commit to finding the strengths in everyone we encounter while we foster resiliency.

Equity:Equity goes beyond the fair treatment of all people. For FSS, equity is the commitment to recognize the social justice issues intrinsic to our work with marginalized communities. We strive to amplify the voices of individuals and families impacted by poverty, racism, and discrimination in any form. We obligate ourselves to a belief that none of these factors should be a predictor of child welfare involvement or outcomes.

FSS provides equal employment and advancement opportunity for all individuals without discrimination because of race, creed, color, gender, religion, age, national origin, disability, military status, marital status, or the other protected categories as defined by the EEOC and takes affirmative action in the implementation of this policy. If accommodation is needed in order to participate in the application process, please contact the Human Resources department at FSSHRDepartment@fssnf.org for our Duval and Nassau counties.