Foster Care Director

Foster Care Director

As part of the Pathways family, one of the largest national providers of accessible mental health services, we offer exceptional benefits, support, and training! We realize that your growth is paramount to our continued reputation of quality and service excellence, and are ready to invest in YOU from day one! For your passion and dedication, we offer paid training, career advancement opportunities, medical/dental/vision, PTO, paid holidays, flexible part time or full time flexible schedule and much, much more (read below)!

Our team lives out their passion for helping the community and are looking for a passionate, hardworking, and supportive leader to guide us forward!

About your Role:Our Foster Care Directorwill

• Provide supportive and growth minded leadership and supervision to staff. Provide clinical supervision to assigned therapists and other direct service workers to ensure high quality trauma-informed, family-engaged, strengths-based standards are met.
• Oversee operational efficiency and effectiveness of services and management of the day-to-day operations using a trauma-informed, strengths-based, family engaged approach
• Maintain compliance with all applicable rules and standards of the organization as well as external regulating agencies to ensure excellence in program compliance, performance and outcomes
• Develop and implement continuous quality improvement plans and processes to ensure compliance with foster care standards, state laws and/ or other applicable certification or accreditation standards. This may include quality assurance reviews, data collection, and analysis of reports.
• Develop and manage the program budget
• Support the philosophy and mission of the organization. Attend and actively participate in Leadership Team meetings, as well as clinical, interdisciplinary and administrative team meetings, in-services, advisory committees and other meetings to further the mission of the foster care team and AFS as a whole.
• Market and promote AFS within the professional community and assigned service area to develop and nurture potential referral sources.
  
  Does the Following Apply to You?
• Master's Degree
• A minimum of 5 years of job-related experience in (North Carolina, preferably) foster care or related community-based case work, working with youth and families.
• Travel is required between community, and program locations up to 25%

Perks We Offer:

• Competitive Salary
• 10 Paid Vacation Days ( increases with tenure)
• Paid Sick Days (Accrual per pay period)
• 7 Paid Holidays (including one floating holiday of your choice!)
• Pet Insurance
• Medical, Dental, Vision including a Health Savings Account or FSA
• Health, Dependent and Transportation Flexible Spending Accounts
• Basic and Optional Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse and/or Dependents
• 401K
• Mileage Reimbursement
• Perks @Pathways - national discounts on shopping, travel and entertainment

Pathways is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status or any other protected characteristic.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.