THOMPSON Child & Family Focus

Learning and Development

• Recruit, Train, and license foster parents
• Provide pre-service training for potential foster parents
• Assess and evaluate potential foster parents
• Guide potential parents through the licensing process
• Ensure foster parents' training remains in compliance
• Maintain audit ready files
• Work in cooperation with foster care coordinator
• Public speaking and marketing to recruit families

PT Licensing & Training Specialist

• Recruit, Train, and license foster parents
• Provide pre-service training for potential foster parents
• Assess and evaluate potential foster parents based on state and agency policy
• Guide potential parents through the licensing process
• Submit all licensing documentation to the state as well as required agency documents
• Ensure foster parents training remains in compliance
• Provide at least quarterly supervision/assessment
• Maintain audit ready files
• Work in cooperation with foster care coordinator
• Public speaking and marketing to recruit families

PT Licensing and Training Specialist

Director

• The State Director serves as the senior executive leader for Tennessee, with full responsibility for statewide strategy, growth, revenue performance, and operational excellence.
• This role functions as the executive owner of the state, leading expansion of Foster Care and future service lines while ensuring long-term sustainability and impact.
• Provide executive leadership for all Tennessee operations with accountability for growth, revenue, margins, and outcomes.
• Set and execute statewide strategy, including Foster Care expansion and development of new programs.
• Own financial performance, including budgets, revenue targets, payer strategy, and sustainability planning.
• Lead, develop, and hold accountable senior leaders.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, program quality, and Medicaid licensure.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with DCS, funders, regulators, and community partners.
• Serve as the primary external representative and advocate for the organization in Tennessee.
• Lead with a trauma-informed CARE approach while fostering a high-performance, accountable culture.

State Director

• Recruit, Train, and license foster parents.
• Provide pre-service training for potential foster parents.
• Assess and evaluate potential foster parents based on state and agency policy.
• Guide potential parents through the licensing process and submit all licensing documentation to the state as well as required agency documents.
• Ensure foster parents training remains in compliance, provide at least quarterly supervision/assessment.
• Maintain audit ready files.
• Work in cooperation with foster care coordinator to provide the comprehensive support to help a foster parent maintain placement of children in their homes.
• Public speaking and marketing to recruit families.
• Flexibility to meet with foster parents or for marketing – occasional evenings or weekends.
• Excellent customer service response, assisting in locating placements for children.
• Work both independently and with a team to ensure safe placement of children, maintain documentation requirements.

Licensing & Training Specialist

Administrative Assistant

• Serve as a support for a variety of programmatic needs to one or multiple programs at Thompson.
• Display individual proficiency and effectiveness in the role.
• Be punctual, arrive on time, and prepared.
• Learn and utilize the organization’s systems, processes and procedures as instructed.
• Display a high degree of being open to coaching/feedback regarding performance and areas of improvement.
• Contribute to a positive team culture through your actions, attitude, and communication
• Consistently deliver excellent customer service to your clients/customers.
• Conduct yourself in the highest standards of ethics and integrity while displaying emotional intelligence in your day-to-day work with customers, peers, and leadership.
• Represent the organization internally and externally through your communication and conduct.
• Display trauma informed practices and principles in your interactions with customers, with peers and with leadership.
• Provide general operational support to their assigned programs/campus.
• Greet new and existing customers with enthusiasm and excellent customer service.
• Manage phone traffic efficiently and effectively.
• Order supplies for campus as needed.
• Submit helpdesk tickets on behalf of campus needs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Affiliate Manager

• Function as a contributing member of a case management team.
• Engage youth who are historically challenging to engage and develop rapport, help them establish buy-in to their case plan.
• Provide mentoring and modeling for youth assigned to your caseload.
• Provide crisis management and intervention as needed.
• Empower the youth in your caseload to find their voice and learn appropriate self-advocacy

Youth Partner

• Recruit, Train, and licensing foster parents
• Provide pre-service training for potential foster parents
• Assess and evaluate potential foster parents based on state and agency policy
• Guide potential parents through the licensing process and submit all licensing documentation to the state
• Ensure foster parents training remains in compliance
• Provide at least quarterly supervision/assessment
• Maintain audit ready files
• Work in cooperation with foster care coordinator
• Public speaking and marketing to recruit families

• Recruit, Train, and licensing foster parents
• Provide pre-service training for potential foster parents
• Assess and evaluate potential foster parents based on state and agency policy
• Guide potential parents through the licensing process
• Submit all licensing documentation to the state and required agency documents
• Ensure foster parents training remains in compliance
• Provide at least quarterly supervision/assessment
• Maintain audit ready files
• Work in cooperation with foster care coordinator
• Provide comprehensive support to help a foster parent maintain placement of children in their homes
• Public speaking and marketing to recruit families

• Recruit, Train, and licensing foster parents.
• Provide pre-service training for potential foster parents.
• Assess and evaluate potential foster parents based on state and agency policy.
• Guide potential parents through the licensing process and submit all licensing documentation to the state as well as required agency documents.
• Ensure foster parents training remains in compliance, provide at least quarterly supervision/assessment, maintain audit ready files.
• Work in cooperation with foster care coordinator to provide comprehensive support to help a foster parent maintain placement of children in their homes.
• Public speaking and marketing to recruit families.
• Maintain documentation requirements.
• Assist in locating placements for children.