Community Care Worker

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Opening Date: June 12, 2024

Closing Date: June 26, 2024

Job Class Code: 5088

Grade: 21 (Pro & Tech. Svcs.)

Salary: $20.91 - $28.14/hr.

Position Number: 02023-0361

This position may be eligible for (1) $1,000 Recruitment & Retention Incentive Payment.

Core Responsibilities:

As a Community Care Worker you will ensure resource family home applicants meet required standards to be approved as a licensed resource family capable of providing foster, adoptive and/or permanency guardianship services to children in care of the Department. With the Department's focus on prioritizing placement of children with kinship families, you will be expected to explain the resource approval process to placement families and actively support these families through the steps to become an approved resource. Your duties will include:

1.Conducting home studies, foster home investigations to determine possible violations, or kinship assessments for relatives and fictive kin placements

2.Assisting in securing placements for youth entering care through OCFS utilizing available resources and best placement practices.

3.Playing a key role in providing information to teams about strengths which an approved resource family can contribute toward meeting the needs of a specific child.

4.Providing ongoing support to resource family applicants and approved resource families

6.Recruiting and providing training and support to resource families.

Minimum Qualifications:

In order to qualify, you must have a Bachelor's Degree in a Social Services or a Behavioral Science area -OR- a four-year combination of education, training, and/or professional experience providing services to and working directly with children and/or families. Experience must demonstrate proficiency in public contact work, information gathering, analysis, documentation, and collaboration. The background of well-qualified candidates will demonstrate the following competencies: