Foster Care & Adoption Supervisor

Buckner Children and Family Services Community: Foster Care & Adoption Program Location: Beaumont, TX - Onsite  Address: 6358 Phelan Blvd. Job Schedule: Full-Time 

We are seeking a Foster Care & Adoption Supervisor to join our Foster Care & Adoption Program. As a Foster Care & Adoption Supervisor, you will Shine Hope as you are responsible for the day-to-day recruitment, coordination and provision of services to foster children, foster families, and foster adoptive families. You will provide foster parent training and monitor homes for compliance to state minimum standards, promote foster care and adoptive services in the community, and supervise home development and recruitment activities to ensure compliance with state regulatory and contract guidelines. You will also supervise caseworkers and ensure compliance with all contracts and regulatory standards. Join our team and shine hope in the lives of others! 

What you'll do:

• Assist with the preparation of the budget for the assigned foster care programs and provide continuous monitoring of the budget and other program resources to ensure they are used efficiently and appropriately.
• Oversight of administration, operations, and management of services, including those inherent in the T3C service packages.
• Prepare developmental plans or corrective action involving caseworkers that are out of compliance with minimum standards, T3C expectations as well as Buckner policies and procedures.
• Responsible for the ongoing supervision of foster homes.  Ensure compliance with state minimum standards through evaluation during quarterly home visits.
• Prepare developmental plans or corrective action involving foster families that are out of compliance with state standards. Document corrective action and progress toward goals in the family’s file.
• Maintain all documentation of client’s files in accordance with established minimum standards and Buckner policies and procedures. Audit client files on a regular basis to ensure that all requirements are met.
• Complete thorough documentation in a timely manner for home files in order to meet minimum standards. Maintain all documentation of foster home files in accordance with established guidelines. Audit home files on a regular basis to ensure that all requirements are met.
• Review and approve all child placement activities, investigation findings, and corrective and adverse action plans involving clients.
• Review all service plans of children and care and complete documentation as required by T3C standards and requirements.
• Review and approve admission forms, initial and subsequent placement documents, investigation reports, initial plans of service, updated plans of service, discharge or transfer plans and summaries, any restrictions imposed on a child and documentation regarding contacts with the client.
• Participate in child placing decisions for children being placed in foster homes.

 What you’ll bring:

• Requires basic understanding of a comprehensive field of knowledge normally associated with the attainment of a Master’s Degree in a related field. Bachelor’s degree required in a human service field. Involves ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions dealing with abstract variables. Knowledge and experience must meet at least one of the following options for qualifying as child placement management staff based on Texas Minimum Standards for Child Placing Agencies:
  • • Master’s Degree specializing in human services field, nine credit hours in graduate level courses that focus on family and individual function, with at least 2 years documented child placement experience working in a Child Placing Agency; or
    • Master’s Degree from an accredited college or university, nine credit hours in graduate level courses that focus on family and individual function and interaction with 3 years documented experience in a child placing agency; or
    • Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in social work or other human ser