Home Study Specialist- FAP
CK Family ServicesAbout the role
Job Details
Job Location Wichita Falls - Wichita Falls, TXDescription
About CK Family Services
CK Family Services is the premiere foster care, adoption, and behavioral health organization in North Texas. For over two decades our team of mission-focused professionals has moved the needle in achieving the mission, People united through God to enhance the physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing of at-risk children and families. For more information regarding our work and focus visit www.ckfamilyservices.org.
Job Summary
As a Home Study Specialist at CK Family Services, you will be responsible for conducting home screenings, reports, and assessments.
General Responsibilities
- Maintain non-Child Placing Management Staff requirements in order to conduct home screenings, reports, and assessments, and additional requirements indicated by contract, as noted.
- Conduct thorough screenings, reports, and assessments, ensuring they meet DFPS Minimum Standards and are of high quality.
- Work from home independently with minimal direct supervision.
- Deliver timely, accurate, and complete home screenings, adoption readiness reports, and kinship caregiver home assessments according to contract guidelines and as outlined within Family Assessment Program Policies and Procedures.
- Participate in Quality Assurance Process, as requested.
- Provide Court Related services related to screenings, reports, and assessments, as requested.
- Complete trainings as requirements.
- Maintain professional contact with CK Family Services staff, TDFPS staff, and program subcontractors.
- Maintain knowledge of DFPS Contract Scope of Work and Minimum Standards for Child Placing Agencies related to verification and screening.
- Participate in Family Staffing meetings to review concerns, as requested.
- Participate in team meetings.
- Complete and report documentation in timely and accurate manner.
- Open and process mail / e-mail, daily, in a timely manner.
- Answer phone, collect messages and respond to requests in an accurate and timely manner.
- Input data into computer in an accurate and timely manner.
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