Foster Care and Community Based Case Aide

• You will ensure the safety of children and youth within Concern's Social Services program

• You will interact with youth, birth parents, resource families and caseworkers and maintain a mutually respectful, cooperative relationship and environment.
  
• You will preserve the confidentiality of all information regarding clients an prepare required documentation in a timely manner.
  
• You will report all incidents based upon agency policies.
  

• At the supervisor's discretion, the following tasks may be assigned:

Provide transportation to the family and youth, adhere to CONCERN policies and all federal, state, and local laws to include using approved car seats and safety restraints and make certain that riders arrive promptly to and from assigned designations at scheduled times.

Maintain case history records and mileage tracking as applicable.

Aide foster care families in providing planned breaks and arranging for activities in and out of the home.

Assist staff, foster care parents, and birth parents during program activities and assure appropriate documentation of such events.

Supervise foster children and biological youth of foster families as needed and address positive/negative behaviors in an appropriate manner.

In the absence of the foster parents, perform duties normally assumed by them.

Communicate to biological and foster families behavioral and medical difficulties clients may have experienced during assigned work hours.

Disperse routine medications and accurately document dosage to meet a child's basic needs at mealtimes and other times of the day as necessary.

Offer support to biological and foster families in cultivating a protective, nurturing environment; resolving crises and family conflicts; developing a consistent level of parenting skills and connecting to community resources.