Permanency Specialist (Palo Pinto County)
On-siteMineral Wells, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Provide permanent planning and placement for abused and neglected children by monitoring care, recruiting foster and adoptive homes, and supporting families dealing with separation and attachment issues. Visit children monthly to assess safety, meet with parents to address risk and behavior changes, and collaborate with the Placement Team for kinship and foster placements. Attend court hearings, prepare reports, and testify on case progress while transitioning children home during reunification or supervising adoptive placements until finalization. Maintain timely documentation, manage caseloads, and travel locally, regionally, and out of state as needed. Requires a Bachelor's degree in human services and two years of experience.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, in a human services field
- Two years experience working within human services
- Knowledge of good child placement practices
- Skills in preparing children for permanency
- Skills in developing and maintaining professional working relationships
- Ability to support families dealing with separation and attachment issues
- Ability to access child's needs and process in the placement progress
- Ability to maintain timely documentation and effectively manage caseload
- Knowledge of agency policies, procedures, and regulations
- Knowledge of laws and regulations to child care, abuse, and neglect
- Ability to assess current life situations of children to determine the presence of child abuse or neglect
- Ability to articulate an understanding of the intersection between race and poverty and the different outcomes and conditions that exist among specific groups as compared to other groups due to unequal treatment of services
- Ability to negotiate available services
- Ability to gather, assemble, correlate, and analyze facts
- Ability to prepare clear and concise reports
- Ability to travel locally, within the region, and out of state, as needed, to best support clients and client needs
- Personal vehicle
- Out of state travel
Desired Qualifications
- Case management experience
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