Family and Resource Engagement Supervisor - Kankakee, United States - Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois

Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois
Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois
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Kankakee, United States

2 weeks ago

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Description

Supervisor, Family and Resource Engagement (FRES)




REPORTS TO:
Program Manager

STATUS:
Full Time, Exempt


WHAT WE DO


Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois improves the well-being of people across the state by protecting children, strengthening families and building futures for those who have experienced trauma.

We do this as a leading provider of a variety of child welfare services.

LCFS is a welcoming organization serving children, individuals, families and communities of all faiths, races, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender expressions and gender-identifications.


WHO WE ARE

  • Champions in supporting children, youth and families throughout Illinois so they are able to reach their full potential
  • Dynamic and innovative leaders who believe in collaboration with their team of professionals and are revolutionizing the
impact on services to families

  • A community which embraces and is committed to being WIDE (welcoming, inclusive, diverse and equitable)
  • Impactors of the child welfare community by addressing institutional racism and implicit bias to increase positive outcomes for
children and families of color

  • Creators of a culture focused on supporting families and ensuring all children find safe, loving permanent homes, particularly by
reuniting them with their families


OBJECTIVES OF THE POSITION


Under the direction of IL child welfare licensed leadership, the Family and Resource Engagement Supervisor is part of the child welfare team that achieves the LCFS vision for all children and families having the opportunity for safe, healthy and meaningful lives.

Supervisors non-case carrying FRES workers who are aimed at building relationships, supports, partnerships and strengths amongst youth, their identified caregivers and families for the expansion of familial/natural, informal and formal life-long supports, connections and resources.

Serves as a team member within the multidisciplinary team or Child and Family Team.


ESSENTIAL ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:


  • Primarily responsible for the recruitment, hiring, training and development, and performance evaluation of assigned staff. May work evenings, weekends and travel to various communities.
  • Exercises discretion and sound judgment in performance of duties in conformance with applicable policies, procedures, statutes, rules and regulations.
  • Provides regular and effective supervision to assigned staff. Continuously addressing the goals and outcomes of the program in order to meet key performance indicators. Provides guidance, problem resolution, and crisis response as required to staff in order to further their development of skills.
  • Ensures that resource development is identified to meet capacity of program. Supports all child Welfare team in stabilizing youth involved in the IL child welfare system. Ensures team meets organizational performance outcomes on Key Performance Indicators metrics/dashboard towards safety, permanency, wellbeing, and overall Agency performance outcomes.
  • Ensures staff collaborate with the licensing and foster care team to identify/recruit potential placement options of licensed providers, relatives and fictive kin to support engaged, affirming, stable and lifelong connections, placement, stabilization and permanency.
  • Develop effective add timely methods for expediting and supporting the licensure process for relative caregivers.
  • Collaborates with Child Welfare leaders and multidisciplinary teams and partners for continuous quality improvement, interventions, service delivery and the achievement of program outcomes
  • Ensures that staff have the ability to analyze data and have skills needed to conduct diligent search activities across multiple databases, systems, social media, and other websites.
  • Ensures staff complete required forms and SACWIS documentation, send written correspondence, and log / track data for use by the foster care team.
  • Ensures staff utilize a familycentered, traumainformed, and strengthbased lens through which youth and family needs are assessed.
  • Maintains excellent knowledge base of changing regulations, policies and rules from agency, DCFS, legal and accrediting bodies. Attends and participates in all required agency and DCFS training in time frame required.
  • Develops understanding and continuously develops selfawareness related to diversity, inclusion and equity issues.
  • Performs other duties as required or assigned.

KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES

  • Understanding of family centered practice, genograms, ecomaps and social histories
  • Basic understanding of the child welfare system
  • Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions
  • Physical, visual and auditory ability to carry out assigned duties
  • Ability to write, prepare and give clear, actionable, accurate, and comprehensive data and feedback for reports and documentation
  • Knowledge of readiness of change, grief, human development and the impact of trauma
  • Knowl
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