[Hiring] Foster Care Case Manager @BrightSpring Health Services

Role Description

StepStone Family & Youth Services provides trauma informed, youth centered services to children and families involved in foster care. The Foster Care Case Manager plays a vital role in supporting youth and foster families through therapeutic case management, service coordination, and individualized support that promotes safety, stability, permanency, and positive outcomes.

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Foster Care Case Manager who is passionate about supporting children and families through trauma informed, strengths based, and family centered practices. This role is ideal for a professional who understands the impact of trauma, loss, and disrupted family systems and is committed to helping youth and families build resilience and long term success.

The Foster Care Case Manager works closely with:

• Foster families
• Biological families
• Treatment teams
• Schools
• Community providers

Through ongoing communication, advocacy, and service planning, this position helps ensure youth and families receive responsive and supportive services tailored to their unique needs.

The ideal candidate is organized, adaptable, empathetic, and committed to delivering high quality services while maintaining professionalism, compliance, and a trauma informed approach throughout all aspects of service delivery.

Responsibilities

The Foster Care Case Manager works under the supervision of the Program Manager. They are responsible for:

• Delivery of case management services
• Individual and family counseling
• Training and supervision of foster families
• Assisting the Program Manager in developing individual treatment plans for troubled children and their families
• Maintaining weekly contact with foster families, children, and bio-families
• Monitoring the progress of the child and family throughout the placement
• Assisting with training, home studies, and evaluation of foster parents
• Using standardized tools to measure social and emotional progress and outcomes
• Preparing written treatment plans and progress reports

PERSONAL WORK RELATIONSHIP: The Foster Care Case Manager makes decisions regarding the placement and treatment of neglected, abused, disturbed, and medically complex children. They will have good verbal and writing skills and will be capable of working with:

• Children
• Parents
• Foster parents
• Client agencies
• The courts

The Foster Care Case Manager will be creative, pragmatic, assertive, and know when to act independently and when to seek the advice of others.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES include, but are not limited to:

• Reviews referrals and matches children with appropriate foster families
• Places children in state licensed or state certified foster homes
• Obtains all state and agency required documentation for child in care
• Provides weekly documented contact and bi-weekly visits to child and foster home
• Visits each assigned child at least once each month away from the foster home
• Prepares a treatment plan for the child within 21 days of placement and quarterly thereafter
• Prepares monthly progress reports for assigned children
• Provides Independent Living training and monthly ILP progress reports for assigned clients
• Provides reunification services to the biological families when required by treatment plan
• Coordinates visitation of children with biological parents, siblings, and relatives
• Provides supervised visits with parents, siblings, and relatives when required by court
• Acts as liaison person with placing agencies, schools, and other community agencies
• Attends court hearings and review hearings
• Attends staff meetings and treatment planning meetings as required
• Completes interviews, training, and home studies on prospective foster parents as needed
• Attends conferences and seminars as required for annual training requirement
• Conducts/participates in two or more foster parent support group meetings each year
• Maintains flexible working hours and works weekends or holidays as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, sociology, psychology, counseling, or related human services field
• Two years’ experience working with children and families
• Alternatively, a bachelor’s degree in social work, sociology, psychology, counseling, or related human services field and five years’ experience with a placing agency working with troubled children and families may be considered in lieu of a graduate degree

Company Description

StepStone Family and Youth Services, an affiliate of BrightSpring Health Services, provides the full spectrum of support to children in need of alternative, safer, and more positive living environments with residential and family services. StepStone connects children and youth who need homes with foster families, as well as foster care training, respite care, and support services. For young adults transitioning from foster care to independent living, StepStone provides personalized guidance and training on basic life skills, including money management and education.

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