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Miracle Hill Ministries is South Carolina's largest and most comprehensive provider of homeless services. At our core, we exist to serve people experiencing homelessness-physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We share the Good News of Jesus with them as they move toward independence, stability, and healthy relationships.Summary / Purpose of Position: Coordinate and Supervise care coordination, case planning, individual service activity and required documentation for assigned foster families and children. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Conduct Intake and Discharge Procedures for foster childrenMonitor adjustment, well-being and progress of children in placement on your caseloadMeet with children and foster parents at least once face to face each month and contact regularly as needed to advocate for and assist children with placement issues, behaviors, plan of care goals, and progress.Ensures that Foster parents are meeting all licensing and contract regulations. Conduct staffing with participating agencies, staff, youth, and families as required for service delivery.Ensure Family involvement, visitation with the child/youth's family of origin, unless prohibited by the court. Miracle Hill agency liaison with the referring agencies, local schools, community resources and providers. This includes a working relationship with SCDSS caseworkers, Guardian ad Litems, Therapists, Mentors, Biological families, and relatives. Complete Documentation and update before deadlines including care plans, progress information and maintain child files as required by agency and state standards. (Safety plans, Individual Service Plans, progress notes and other required documentation for the child's file. Documentation will be kept in accordance with licensing standards.Adherence to all regulatory standards and Miracle Hill Ministries policies Prepare critical incident reports and submit them to DSS staff. Will be assigned rotation in on-call rotation and will respond to crises or emergency situations. Assistance with the crisis situation may require a face-to-face home visit. Advocate for children and assist children and foster parents with behavior interventions, placement stability and success for youth. Assist with investigating allegations of abuse/neglect relating to MH foster parents as requested by DirectorAssist in goal achievement for individual service plansHave a willingness to share the good news of Jesus Christ, give a personal testimony and pray with/for those served by the ministry This is a Full-time position that will require a significant amount of telecommuting/ remote working. This position requires individuals to perform their work from locations other than their employer's physical office, as approved by their supervisor. Locations may include, but are not limited to, foster family homes, home office, family court, hospitals, or DSS. Individuals will be obligated to travel to their physical office for meetings, supervision, paperwork or as scheduled/deemed necessary by their supervisor. Other duties as assigned by the supervisor Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has responsibility for supervising foster parents and their licenseQualifications: Education or equivalent experience: a Master's degree in social work or other related areas of study and one year of experience working with the population served; or a Bachelor's degree in social work or other related areas of study and two years of experience working with the population served. Closely related fields acceptable in meeting these qualifications include social work, counseling, psychology, sociology, criminal justice and recreational therapy.Specialized training required: CPR/First Aid, Behavior intervention, medication administration training, trauma informed training, prudent parenting training. Provided by Miracle Hill upon hire if not current.Other: Ability to deal with highly stressful situations and persons who may be stressed. Ability to exercise judgment and discretion in interpreting and applying various procedures and guidelines. Training in providing services to children/youth exhibiting medical, developmental and/or behavior problems and in supervisory role of those caring for children.Licenses or Certifications: Must become Certified Adoptions Specialist within 6 monthsReligious: As an evangelical Christian ministry, Miracle Hill values its rights under federal law to hire individuals who share the Christian faith and the ministry's doctrinal beliefs.To be considered for employment, ALL APPLICANTS MUST read and agree with our Doctrinal Statement and Employment Qualifications (scroll down on page to see qualifications).