Your personnel policies and procedure must:
(1) Include an organizational chart showing the administrative,
professional, and staffing structures and lines of authority;
(2) Include written job descriptions, including minimum
qualifications and job responsibilities for each position;
(3) Include a written professional staffing plan that:
(A) Demonstrates that the number, qualifications, and
responsibilities of professional positions, including the child-placing
agency administrator, are appropriate for the size and scope of your
services and that workloads are reasonable enough to meet the needs
of the children in care;
(B) Describes in detail the qualifications, duties,
responsibilities, and authority of professional positions. For each
position, the plan must show whether employment is on a full-time,
part-time, or continuing consultative basis. For part-time and consulting
positions, the plan must specify the number of hours and/or frequency
of services; and
(C) Describes how staff or service providers support
clients served through branch offices;
(4) Include written training requirements for employees
and caregivers;
(5) Comply with background check requirements outlined
in Subchapter F of Chapter 745 of this title (relating to Background
Checks);
(6) Require your employees to report serious incidents
and suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation. An employee who suspects
abuse, neglect, or exploitation must report their suspicion directly
to us and may not delegate this responsibility, as directed by Texas
Family Code §261.101(b);
(7) Require that all employees and consulting, contracting,
and volunteer professionals who work with a child and others with
access to information about a child be informed in writing of their
responsibility to maintain child confidentiality; and
(8) Either adopt the model drug testing policy or have
a written drug testing policy that meets or exceeds the criteria in
the model policy provided in §745.4151 of this title (relating
to What drug testing policy must my residential child-care operation
have?).
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §749.105 adopted to be effective January 1, 2017, 41 TexReg 9944; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909 |
