Treatment Foster Care (TFC) Manager (4737)

About Us

Since 2007, Embrace Treatment Foster Care has been working with families and local Departments of Social Services throughout Virginia to provide safe families for children in foster care.​ Embrace TFC staff are here to support children in foster care, as well as foster families to ensure they have the resources they need to thrive. Embrace TFC strives to ensure all members involved in the child’s life are supported and are receiving the resources they need to be successful.

About The Role

We are seeking a Treatment Foster Care (TFC) Manager to assist with the overall supervision of foster care employees and related assignments and duties for the assigned location/region. In addition, the Foster Care Program Manager is responsible for ensuring Key Performance Indicators and associated metric targets are successfully achieved.

Supervisory and Managerial Functions

• Direct supervisor for up to eight caseworkers within assigned region meeting at least once weekly and recording the supervision.
• Planning - Work involves reviewing program objectives and service delivery needs with staff and formulating specific goals and objectives for the assigned program area. Foster Care Managers provide input to higher-level management on short-range planning needs for staff or units.
• Organizing and Directing - Foster Care Managers manage referrals, assign cases to staff and maintain workload balance. Foster Care Managers make changes in work procedures to meet program demands and present recommendations to management on issues that impact programmatic goals, objectives, and policies.

Scope and Nature of Work Supervised

• Dynamics of Work Supervised - Programs are periodically affected by changes in methodology, guidelines, and shifting program emphasis. These changes may require employees to develop new approaches or procedures to meet program objectives.
• Variety of Work Supervised - Foster Care Managers supervise staff responsible for the delivery of professional social work services to clients and their families who have a range of social, economic, emotional, or mental problems.
• Number of Employees Responsible For - Foster Care Managers are responsible for supervising approximately five to twelve professional employees.

Extent of Supervision Received

• Foster Care Managers are responsible for the quality of service provided by staff. Employees receive reviews through periodic conferences, meetings, informal interactions, reports, and performance appraisals. Review for quality is also received through periodic random case reviews.
• Communicates all incidents to the Executive Director within 4 hours of the occurrence and ensures all serious incident reports are disseminated appropriately within 24 hours.

Recruitment

• Assists the Executive Director in all ongoing specific foster care recruitment, marketing, training and approval of foster parents as requested.
• Identify, maintain, and develop relationships with individuals, families, and community groups or entities to ensure the visibility of our foster care program.
• Create and plan educational presentations and information sessions with individuals, families, community groups, and businesses to promote our foster care program.

This description outlines the general scope and level of work for this role. It is not intended to include every duty or responsibility that may be required of employees in this position.

Compensation

This role is compensated on a salaried basis, providing consistent earnings aligned with the responsibilities and expectations of the position.

• Compensation: $63,568 - $81,628

Placement within the range is based on licensure level, education, and experience (QP through Licensed Clinician).

What You Can Expect

• Team Leadership: Supervise, support, and guide foster care caseworkers.
• Program Management: Assign cases, balance workloads, and ensure program goals are met.
• Quality and Compliance: Monitor casework, maintain service quality, and ensure timely incident reporting.
• Recruitment and Community Outreach: Help recruit foster parents and build relationships within the community.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and guide foster care caseworkers.
• Assign cases and manage staff workloads.
• Monitor case progress and ensure timely reporting of incidents.
• Support foster parent recruitment, training, and community outreach.