You provide assistance and support to clients and foster parents to ensure that each youth's basic and complex needs, such as medical, educational, and mental health, are appropriately met.

You travel via various modes of transportation (automobile, airplane, bus, etc.) to conduct client visits, facilitate client family or fictive kin visits, or any additional program-oriented duties requiring travel.

You are responsible for the accurate and timely completion and filing of all required documents, forms and reports, including, but not limited to: ORR 3, ORR 4, Medicaid application, progress notes, individual service plans, safety plans, medical documentation, legal documentation, and incident reports.

You utilize professional and appropriate written and oral communication to relay information to clients, foster parents, agency staff, community stakeholders, funders, and other entities.

You are responsible for outlining the appropriate permanency-planning pathway based on assessments and discussion with youth. Pathways include transition to adulthood, kinship/non-family member/family reunification or adoption.

You may conduct duties related to foster parent training, foster home, and file parent compliance, and ensuring adherence to HHSC Minimum Standards for Child Placing Agencies.

You may conduct duties related to foster parent training, foster home, and file parent compliance, and ensuring adherence to HHSC Minimum Standards for Child Placing Agencies.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's Degree in Social Work or other human service field of study (psychology, sociology, counseling, etc.)

Two (2) years of experience in a residential child-care operation, conservatorship caseworker, or foster adoptive home development worker for Texas' Department of Family and Protective Services

Bilingual Preferred

Two (2) years working under the direct supervision of child placement management staff