Since 1995 The James Barry Robinson Institute's non-profit foster care program has provided positive homes for youth with behavioral and emotional challenges. If you are looking for a rewarding and mission-focused career, apply today!

Our Foster Care program provides treatment, training, and homes for children in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Many of our families live in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Newport News, and Hampton. We are proud to place children into stable and loving foster parents homes and we work to ensure that a good fit between the foster family and the child.

As a Child Placing Specalist for Foster Care you would be administering and monitoring clinical functions to help ensure appropriateness of services being rendered. These services include treatment and service planning, monitoring and oversight to ensure that children receive safe, appropriate and structured care as well as coordination of services for the child.

Qualifications

• A doctorate or master's degree in social work from a college or university accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, plus three years of experience in providing casework services to children and families; or

• A doctorate or master's degree in a field related to social work such as, but not limited to, sociology, psychology, special education, or counseling with at least four years of experience in providing casework services to children and families in a child-placing agency; or

• Bachelors in Human Services or related filed plus five years of experience in providing casework services to children and families

• Ability to maintain and analyze statistical data and/or trends as it relates to census

• Knowledge of growth and development in children, adolescents, and developmentally disabled youth.

• A commitment to quality and excellent customer service

Duties:

• Responsible for coordinating with Program Director for ongoing operations of the program

• Assure that Foster Care program is abiding by CARF standards, internal policy as well as State Regulations

• Assist in fiscal planning by developing and implementing the annual budget as it pertains to census, as well as oversight of reinbursement for care.

• Conduct and/or assign referral development activities and establish an annual referral development plan

• Review procedure of clinical review to properaly assess client needs for appropriateness of family placement

• Organize and/or conduct preplacement interviews with potential clients based on admission criteria

Benefits:

• Full benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance

• 403(b) retirement plan with company contribution

• Company paid life and long-term disability insurance

• Generous paid annual leave (Vacation)

• Mileage reimbursement

• Paid sick leave

• 7 Paid Holidays (Juneteenth added 2022, and MLK being added in 2023)

• Tuition reimbursement, details below:

• $3,000 per calendar year after 6 months of tenure

• $5,000 per calendar year after 2 years of tenure

• Employee events and activities

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Annual performance reviews

• Opportunities for advancement

• And more!

The Barry Robinson Center provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.