Child Welfare Specialized Services Supervisor - Joliet, United States - Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois

Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois

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Joliet, United States

3 weeks ago

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Description

Child Welfare Specialized Services Supervisor

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 leadership 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).
Impacting the child welfare community by addressing institutional racism and implicit bias to increase positive outcomes for children and families of color.
Creating a culture focused on supporting families and ensuring all children find safe, loving permanent homes, particularly by reuniting them with their families.

Under the direction of organizational leadership, the Specialized Services Supervisor is part of the child welfare team that leads the achievement of the LCFS vision for all children and families having the opportunity for safe, healthy and meaningful lives.

This program manager specifically leads a team of direct service Child Welfare Specialists in building relationships, supports, partnerships and strengths amongst youth, their identified caregivers and families to ensure youth who are involved in the Illinois foster care system and whom have a history of medical, mental health issues and/or multiple placements, delinquency or other level needs shall receive:

Successful and sustainable transitions and maintenance in the least restrictive living arrangements;
Intensive wraparound and case coordination services for social, emotional and physical wellbeing;
Natural and formal lifelong supports, connections, safety, stability and permanency;
Supportive youth led strength building, positive development, prosocial life skill opportunities, behavior and medical adaptability, skills & empowerment.

Job Responsibilities (non-exhaustive list)

Leads a team direct service child welfare professionals in partnership with children, parents and community providers to assess, plan, evaluate and make linkages for safety, permanency and wellbeing outcomes.
Implementation of individualized and targeted services for youth, families through management and direction of staff responsible for providing services for this population.
Collaborate with multi disciplinary teams and partners for continuous quality improvement, interventions, service delivery and the achievement of program outcomes
Represents, markets and promotes the program vision, goals and works toward growth, development and alignment across the site, region and other areas of jurisdiction. (This includes seeking referrals, providing updated listservs of resource availability, responding/representing for agency broadcast, program/ process development and solutionfocused barrier elimination.)
Provides effective supervision, mediation, problem resolution, oversight and crisis response to staff by effectively responding to workforce, parent, child, provider and other stakeholder concerns and demonstrating the ability to effectively manage crisis and difficult case situations. (This includes oncall support.)
Assesses and maintains knowledge of child welfare and population specific laws, policies and trends for recommending program adjustments and implementation that aides program effectiveness, children, families and communities.
Provide supervisory action and consultation to staff regarding safety, permanency, wellbeing, and overall Agency performance outcomes. (This includes measuring and achieving performance on Key Performance Indicators metrics/dashboards, etc.)
Perform case management activities such as assignment, transfer, closings and assessment of workloads, issue analysis, service authorizations, critical decisions and practice recommendations.
Exercise discretion and judgment (under supervision) in performance of duties in conformance with applicable policies, procedures, statutes, rules and regulations
Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the within the values, philosophy, policies procedures and scope of the duties enumerated above.

KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES

Knowledge of risk and safety assessment, and developing effective safety plans that reduce/mitigate future risk of child abuse, neglect and improve child safety.
Ability to write, prepare and give clear, actionable. accurate, and comprehensive feedback for reports or doc