Recruitment (Foster Homes)

Recruitment (Foster Homes)

Recruitment (Foster Homes) - 110001QQ Job Clinical Primary Location United States-MA-MANew Bedford Organization Cambridge
Massachusetts MENTOR
Founded in 1980, Massachusetts MENTOR provides home and community-based services to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and youth with emotional and behavioral challenges, as well as their families. Through a range of individualize services, including Therapeutic Foster Care and Host Home programs, Massachusetts MENTOR helps individuals of all abilities live life to the fullest in the communities they call home.
Massachusetts MENTOR is a partner of The MENTOR Network, a national network of local human service providers offering quality, community-based services to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families. With opportunities from coast to coast, when you join Massachusetts MENTOR and The MENTOR Network, you'll make a difference every day and help to provide quality of life enhancing services to individuals across the country.

Description
Build and enhances an active network of Mentors (Foster Parents) through the strategic recruitment and selection of qualified Mentors. Develops and implements recruiting and retention tracking tools and strategies. Measures success of campaign effectiveness creating and designing new campaigns as needed to continuously attract new Mentors. Conducts home study evaluations, including psychosocial assessments. Primary focus of job, however, is recruitment.

Key Responsibilities:
- Developing and Posting of marketing and advertising materials
- Outreach in communities to develop appropraite rescources
- Screen applicants
- Conduct clinical assesment
- Process background checks and reference checks
- Assisting in coordinating and leading pre-service orientation
- Processing initial and ongoing required HR protocols and paperwork
- Meeting productivity and quality standards as outlined by Recruiter Manager
- Maintaining records per regulatory and company policies
-Conducting quarterly health and safety reviews and other recruitment tasks
- Assisting with any other duties assigned Recruiter Manager
Qualifications
Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Human Services or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Three years of related Human Services experience required
• Knowledge of the foster care system preferred

Founded in 1980, The MENTOR Network is a national network of local human services providers offering an array of quality, community-based services in more than 30 states to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families.

SUMMARY

Recruits Mentors and coordinates the licensing process of opening new homes. Conducts home study evaluations, makes clinical assessments, and ensures documentation is complete and accurate in accordance to state compliance with licensing regulations.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below.
Conducts initial home study evaluations.
Coordinates all steps in the certification process including clinical and written assessment.
In conjunction with extensive written and verbal communication with the State Office of Licensing, compiles and submits information and advises management on whether or not to proceed on certification of a home.

Completes reports making recommendations to management for certification. Assists the Program Manager, Intake and mangement staff in ""client match"" meetings. Maintains appropriate records in compliance with funding source requirements. Develops and implements mentor recruiting and retention programs. Records and maintains the statistics necessary to measure the effectiveness of various mentor recruitment and retention efforts.
Responsible for the coordination of training for all applicants including CPR and First Aid training, training on the client population, health, normalization, history of mentor, fire and safety. Performs other related duties and activities as required.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None required.

Minimum Knowledge and Skills required by the Job

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job.

Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in human services and three years of related human services experience.

An equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed above may be substituted for the above education and experience requirements.

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations:
Current driver's license, car registration and auto insurance if providing transportation for individual receiving services.

AMERICAN WITH DISABILITY STATEMENT
External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with assistance of a reasonable accommodations to be determined on a case by case basis.

EOE/AAE
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