Provides leadership and direction for the agency’s adoption services. Ensures prompt and appropriate adoptive services for families interested in adoption and children available for adoption. Provides leadership to the quality processes and assists in assuring compliance with all regulatory standards and rules as they relate to adoption services.
V. Job Specifications
- Experience: shall possess one of the following:
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- A Master’s Degree in social work is preferred, or a Bachelor’s Degree in a human behavioral science and 4 years of experience as a social service worker, 2 years of which are in an agency or in a child caring institution, or in an agency in a child welfare function.
Physical Demands: The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Emotionally able to work with information that may be traumatic in nature, as well as, work with individuals or families in crisis or experiencing trauma.
- Ability to stand and/or walk up to 8 hours per shift.
- Work involves talking, stooping, squatting, twisting, climbing, kneeling, hearing, using hands to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms.
- Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.
- May be required to push, pull, lift, and/or carry up to 25 pounds.
- Ability to sit and use computer workstation, including keyboard and visual display terminal for extended periods of time.
- Noise in the work environment is usually moderately quiet but can be very loud at times.
- Work in an environment with various degrees of discomfort.
- Driving as needed throughout the day.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Additional Notes
This description is intended to describe the essential job functions, the general supplemental functions and the essential requirements for the performance of this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and requirements of a person so classified. Other functions may be assigned and management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.
