Executive Service
DCS PROGRAM COORDINATOR - PROVIDER & FOSTER HOME QUALITY - DAVIDSON
Department of Children''s Services
Central Office Quality Compliance
Nashville, TN
Salary: $54,744.00 - $68,328.00 per year
Closing Date: 06/15/2026
Background Check:
This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.
Job Overview:
The Provider/Foster Home Quality Unit is a division within the Office of Continuous Quality Improvement. The unit oversees monitoring and related action steps from Special Investigation Unit (SIU) referrals in congregate care and foster home settings and Provider Performance Improvement Plans (PPIPs).
Key Responsibilities:
The Program Coordinator would be responsible for ensuring the safety of children in foster homes by maintaining a review process for DCS foster homes and provider homes,
Assisting with the management of the Foster Home Quality process and work towards improving the quality-of-service delivery to DCS,
Engaging foster home providers and congregate care providers to promote ongoing provider improvement and address any concerning areas.
The Program Coordinator would also assist the team in evaluating monthly Incident Report reviews,
Assist with provider partnership calls, and maintain foster home related records.
This position would also aid Provider Quality as needed.
Minimum Qualifications:
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor''s degree and experience equivalent to four years of professional work in one or a combination of the following: counseling or case management services, or program evaluations of counseling or case management services, three years of which must involve providing these services to children and/or juveniles. Graduate course work credit received from an accredited college or university in social work, criminal justice, psychology, sociology, human services, and/or child development may substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis to a maximum of one year, there being no substitution for the required three years of children''s services work (e.g. 36 graduate quarter hours in one or a combination of the above listed fields may substitute for one year of the required experience). Experience equivalent to one year as a DCS Program Specialist or a DCS Case Manager 3 with the State of Tennessee.
Pursuant to the State of Tennessee''s Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State''s policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person''s race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran''s status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.