Child Protective Family Services Specialist

1 day ago


Bradenton, Florida, United States My Florida Corp Defunct Full time
Job Title: Child Protective Family Services Specialist

This is an advanced professional role that involves assessing and developing Child Protective Investigators (CPIs) to ensure they possess the appropriate level of professional competencies. The position works in cooperation with CPI Supervisors and management to promote the development of knowledge, skills, and their application for CPIs.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Organize and facilitate real-time and virtual-based CPI pre-service classroom trainings.
  • Assist in facilitating in-service classroom training opportunities and disseminating these training sessions.
  • Observe and document investigator casework activities in providing protective investigations, assessment of service needs, and referrals to service providers.
  • Review casework, assessments, and safety plans with investigators, and provide consultation and direction to ensure appropriateness, clarity, quality, thoroughness, and proper documentation.
  • Provide real-time support and guidance by scheduling field assessments (random and scheduled) during investigative activities conducted by CPIs to provide on-the-job training.
  • Assist in providing guidance to investigators by coaching, motivating, modeling, and providing other mentoring initiatives.
  • Coach and assist CPIs with documenting aspects of investigations (i.e., chronological entry of case summaries), in which support was provided to investigators, by updating the appropriate information systems.
  • Observe, analyze, and evaluate individual CPI performance to determine their effectiveness and level of competency and provide recommendations to regional management regarding actions to improve performance.
  • Serve as a member of the leadership team responsible for developing system-based solutions to CPI training and development issues or concerns.
  • Based on field experience and observations, provide recommendations to the Department's Program Office on enhancements to both CPI pre-service and in-service training to ensure the development and maintenance of a comprehensive and relevant training curriculum.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in child protective investigations.
  • Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with organizations and other agencies involved with child protective investigations such as community-based providers, Children's Legal Services, law enforcement, medical personnel, schools, and other community/agency resources.
  • Travel to observe field work or provide in-service or pre-service instruction is required.
  • Required to assist with training pre-service when needed as well as facilitate in-service trainings regularly, and as such need to earn at Child Welfare Trainer certification.

Requirements:

  • A bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university.
  • At least 2 years of experience as a Child Protective Investigator.
  • Must be trained and practicing Florida's Safety Practice method.
  • Current/Active Child Welfare Certification credentials from the Florida Certification Board.
  • Must possess a valid driver's license.
  • Must possess operational private vehicle for use in the performance of daily work activities.


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