
Website State Of Texas
Job Description:
This position performs regulatory work by monitoring and investigating child care facilities in accordance with the Human Resources Code, Texas Administrative Code, Minimum Standards, and Licensing Policy and Procedures Handbook. Work involves making facility inspections, conducting investigations, providing training to Residential Child Care providers, and convening pre-application meetings for applicants. The position interacts routinely with Texas Department of Family and Protective Services staff, representatives from various organizations, and general public.
Job Responsibilities:
- Investigates complaints, serious incidents and reports of minimum standards violations in licensed residential child care facilities.
- Provides training and technical assistance to residential child care providers on issues related to minimum standards.
- Promotes and demonstrates appropriate respect for cultural diversity among coworkers and all work-related contacts.
- Evaluates new applications and child care facilities to issue licenses and registrations.
- Monitors licensed and registered child care facilities, documents compliance or noncompliance with standards using agency forms, and notifies providers of required corrective or adverse actions being taken.
- Responds to emergency complaints of high risk situations in licensed operations.
- Performs other duties as assigned and required to maintain unit operations.
Job Requirements:
- Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
- Ability to initiate and participate in enforcement of regulations concerning residential child care facilities.
- Ability to de-escalate situation with tact and diplomacy.
- Ability to self-start, organize, and manage priorities
- Ability to evaluate facility’s operations in relation to agency guidelines for management of residential child care facilities.
- Ability to work with diverse groups of people.
- Knowledge of Texas laws relating to regulation of child care and child abuse/neglect.
- Skill in effective verbal and written communication.
- Ability to operate basic office equipment including, fax and copy machines, and camera/AV equipment.
- Ability to travel.
Job Details:
Company: State Of Texas
Vacancy Type: Full Time
Job Location: Dallas, TX, US
Application Deadline: N/A
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