Safety Compliance Specialist

About CCC:

Since 1923, Commonwealth Catholic Charities (CCC)has provided life-changing human services to vulnerable individuals and families throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. CCC offers quality and compassionate human services to all people, especially the most vulnerable, regardless of faith. We are passionate about the work we do in our communities, providing 31 critical services at 11 locations throughout Virginia.

SUMMARY: This position is responsible for ensuring compliance with federal regulations on protecting children placed in shelter facilities from sexual abuse and sexual harassment and developing and implementing training programs to meet regulatory requirements and professional needs of the program and agency 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Develop, implement, and oversee processes that ensure compliance with the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) policies on preventing sexual abuse and harassment of children in care.  

• Serve as primary point of contact for ORR’s Prevention of Sexual Abuse (PSA) team 

• Implement best practices to ensure the safety and protection of children in care, not restricted to review of existing policies, training of staff and review of incident reports.  

• Assist Shelter Manager in ensuring health and mental health services are provided according to established ORR standards 

• Provide orientation to all new hires on PSA standards and requirements.   

• Complete and submit all required reports 

• Participate in ORR scheduled calls and meetings for PSA staff 

• Work closely with Human Resources on any staff-related incidents to ensure safety of children in the facility 

• Collect, maintain and share data with agency management and ORR on effective facility response methods to sexual abuse and harassment 

• Responsible for the timely training and onboarding of new hires in ORR funded programs 

• Coordinates, schedules and tracks staff training 

• Monitors ORR policy and procedural updates and disseminates information appropriately to staff 

• Serves as the department’s Therapeutic Options of Virginia (TOVA) trainer. 

• Assists in the scheduling and delivery of standard trainings such as First Aid and CPR 

• Conducts regular trainings for staff on policies and other relevant topics 

• Attends scheduled training programs for professional development that includes at a minimum, trainings required by Commonwealth Catholic Charities, and by regulatory and accrediting bodies. 

• Promotes staff professional growth through established training requirements 

• Reviews documents and case records regularly for regulatory compliance and quality assurance 

• Identify opportunities to improve client care, quality, and effectiveness 

• Represents the Agency in the community and workplace in a professional and ethical manner. 

• Demonstrates sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics. 

• Demonstrates strong interpersonal, decision-making, problem-solving, oral, and written skills. 

• Utilizes a basic knowledge of Microsoft Office applications. 

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Human Sciences, Behavioral health fields or equivalent; At least one year experience working with child welfare standards, best practices and compliance and two years of training and staff development experience required Certification as a trainer for First Aid, CPR and TOVA de-escalation techniques preferred.  

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment is favorable. 

Full-time Employee Benefits:

Retirement savings – After one year of employment, the agency contributes 4% of your plan year earnings into a savings account for you and will match dollar-for-dollar up to 4% of salary if an employee makes contributions to the plan. That’s an 8% annual contribution to your retirement savings!

PTO – earn 16 days off for vacation, sick, or personal time in your first year. This goes up to 22 days in your second year and keeps climbing every five years.

Holidays – Enjoy eleven paid holidays

Other paid leave at no cost to employees – bereavement, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid parental leave

Virginia Credit Union memberships

Employee Assistance program – Free services including five free confidential consultations with a mental health professional

Medical Insurance – a choice of 4 PPO plans for employee, employee + spouse, employee + child(ren), or family coverage. A portion of premiums subsidized by the agency.

Dental Insurance – a choice of two dental plans for employee, employee + spouse, employee + child(ren), or family coverage. A portion of premiums subsidized by the agency.

Vision Insurance

Life insurance – paid by agency with option to purchase additional coverage

Other insurance benefits – flexible spending accounts including dependent care, health savings account (for qualified HDHP participants), legal resources