Foster Care Licensing Specialist
Location: Matanuska Valley, Alaska
Description: Denali Family Services is at present recruited Foster Care Licensing Specialist right now, this vacancy will be hold in Alaska. More complete informations about this vacancy opportunity please give attention to these descriptions.
Denali Family Services is seeking a full-time Foster Care Licensing Specialist. The Foster Care Licensing Specialist provides all state licensing requirements and consultative services to treatment foster paren ts. Provide training for treatment foster home placements, including all financials, placement agency licenses, and statistics. Provide administrative supervision to treatment foster parents.
This position is responsible for observing policies, procedures and safeguards to protect the privacy of health information in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy (Privacy Rule).
Essential Functions of the Position:
- Perform the basic licensing process, to include receiving and responding to pre-application inquiries, conducting background checks, interview meetings in the foster parent's home, and arranging fire, safety and environmental evaluations.
- Conduct on-site program assessments, process waiver requests, document findings, and formulate recommendations for license insurance, denial/revocation, or injunctive actions.
- Enter each new applicant into the computerized Harmony MIS, management system.
- Conduct complai nt/allegation investigations, may need to prepare testimony for administrative or court hearings, conduct supervisory visits to facilities, and provide post-licensing issuance consultation.
- Cooperate with other specialists and regulatory agencies, such as fire marshals, building inspectors, sanitarians, teachers, public health nurses, the Office of the Attorney General and business loan and licensing divisions of the executive branch.
- Develop community awareness of licensing needs and benefits; recruit providers for regular, specialized and respite foster care; and secure provider agreements for services.
- License and maintain foster homes.
- Coordinate and document placements for foster care.
- Maintain foster parent files to ensure compliance with licensing standards.
- Provide supervision to foster parents
- Organize and perform foster parent training.
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with three (3) years of experience in family and children’s services, child protection/welfare or other out of home care environment which involved working with children and adolescents identified with developmental disabilities and/or as severely emotionally disturbed.
Preferred: A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in social work, human services, psychology, or a closely related field with two (2) years of experience in family and children’s services, child protection/welfare or other out of home care environment which involved working with children and adolescents identified with developmental disabilities and/or as severely emotionally disturbed.
Excellent benefits package including 403(B) retirement plan with an employer match, employer paid life insurance, 10 paid holidays, generous leave accrual (including birthday leave), health coverage, an d more!
Please visit company website, www.denalifs.org, to view complete position description and to download an application. Application and resume required. Resumes will not be accepted without an application.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $16.83 to $20.43 /hour
Required experience:
- family/children's services and/or child protection/welfare: 2 years
Required education:
- Bachelor's
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If you were eligible to this vacancy, please deliver us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Denali Family Services.
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This vacancy will be started on: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:51:28 GMT