Job Description
Position: Treatment Foster Care Specialist
Salary: $41,000.00 - $47,000.00 annually
(Starting salary depends on education and experience)
Job Type: Full Time (Hybrid)
RESPONSIBILITIES: Do you have a passion for keeping youth in the community in family settings? Do you excel at building strong supportive relationships? Cornerstones of Care is seeking a passionate, innovative change maker as a Treatment Foster Care Specialist to work with youth, primarily teens, in our specialized treatment family homes. Treatment Foster Care Specialists are collaborators, coaches, and mentors for both the youth and the adults in their lives. Small caseloads let the TFC Specialist focus on increasing placement stability, teaching new coping skills and supporting youth as they achieve permanence. Our Specialist have a high degree of autonomy with their schedule and the work may be completed from home, through visits to the foster home and other community settings and some scheduled time in the office. Specialists have flexibility and autonomy with their schedule as long as the needs of their assigned families are met. Office space is available; however, Specialists typically work out of their own homes when not conducting visits with their families. Come join our amazing team!
QUALIFICATIONS: This position requires a Bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, or related field and one (1) to three (3) years of experience. Preferred candidates will have a Masters degree. Must be at least 21 years of age and pass background check, physical and drug screening. This position also requires a valid driver's license and proof of current vehicle insurance.
Must pass background check, physical and drug screening.
BENEFITS: Cornerstones of Care offers a competitive benefits package, which includes: Paid Holiday, Paid Time Away (unlimited PTO for all benefit eligible team members), medical/dental/vision; prescriptions; accident and critical illness insurance; pet insurance; short-term disability; long-term disability; term life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D); health savings account (HSA); flexible spending account (FSA); retirement (401K); employee assistance program (EAP); YMCA membership discounts; Tuition Reimbursement Program and Public Service Loan Forgiveness. To view a detailed Summary of Benefits please visit our website at and under the heading "About Us" click on "Join Our Team."
CORNERSTONES OF CARE'S ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS: - Nonviolence -helping to build safety skills and a commitment to higher purpose
- Emotional Intelligence -helping to teach emotional management skills
- Social Learning -helping to build cognitive skills
- Open Communication -helping to overcome barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management
- Democracy -helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority
- Social Responsibility -helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships
- Growth and Change -helping to work through loss and prepare for the future
Questions? Please contact: Human Resources at HR.Services@Cornerstonesofcare.org
8150 Wornall Rd Kansas City, MO 64114
Phone: (913) 225-0621 Fax: (816) 508-1757
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Cornerstones of Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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