Job Description
Essential Job Functions Provide case management services in accordance with agency, state, and
federal guidelines and laws. The caseload size will be no more than 10 cases.
Conduct various family, safety, and risk assessments.
Work collaboratively to establish and monitor treatment plans with families
and service providers.
Utilize solution focused practice to mitigate risk, enhance safety, and
expedite case resolution.
Complete comprehensive reports and extensive case documentation.
Conduct home visits, attend community meetings, and participate in court
hearings.
Provide court testimony, as needed.
Authorize and coordinate supportive services.
Provide referrals to services within the community and collaborate with
partner agencies.
Work with, and advocate for, families in crisis situations and/or those
impacted by trauma, substance abuse, mental health, domestic violence,
multi-generational poverty, child abuse, child neglect, sexual abuse, etc.
Demonstrate proficient writing skills
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Specialized Assessment Essential Job Functions Answer the Child Protection Hotline and take thorough and complete referrals
through enhanced screening techniques.
Complete fatality, near fatality, egregious and institutional abuse
assessments.
Provide training to various audiences on how to identify and report child
abuse and neglect.
Act as a representative of Child Welfare at community interdisciplinary
meetings.
Assessment Social Caseworker Essential Job Functions Conduct initial assessments regarding assigned abuse and neglect referrals
Engage with families to maintain children safely in the home.
Facilitate removing children from the home when safety cannot be maintained.
Permanency Social Caseworker Essential Job Functions Collaborate with families, service providers, community, and courts to
establish permanency for children through reunification, allocation,
guardianship, or adoption.
Monitor progress of treatment plans and identify barriers.
Family Empowerment Social Caseworker Essential Job Functions Collaborate with families, service providers, and the community in
non-court involved cases to mitigate risks, maintain safety of children and
youth with their family and support well-being.
Identify and address barriers to progress through intensive in-home
engagement.
Adolescent Permanency Social Caseworker Essential Job Functions Manage cases primarily overseen by the juvenile delinquency (JD) court system.
Oversee youth placed in Residential Treatment facilities.
Youth In Transition Social Caseworker Essential Job Functions Complete the training "engaging youth in a coach-like way" and implement
these skills in all cases.
Support youth with voluntary cases to locate housing.
Assist youth in developing independent living skills.
Chafee Program Coordinator Essential Job Functions Assist youth in developing independent living skills.
Promote youth and agency participation in the Chafee program.
Facilitator/ Family Search Essential Job Functions Utilize concepts from several family engagement models, such as Family Group
Conferencing, Family to Family, and Team Decision Making.
Conduct Permanency Roundtable (PRT) meetings for identified youth.
Conduct family searches to identify kinship supports and potential placement
options.
Professional Development Coach Essential Job Functions Develop and present group coaching sessions and trainings.
Conduct individual coaching sessions utilizing the co-active coaching model.
Oversee and enhance the mentorship program.
Support staff professional development through creating and monitoring
structured learning plans.
Adoption Social Caseworker Essential Job Functions Collaborate with permanency case managers to provide concurrent case planning
prior to termination of parental rights (TPR).
Manage cases after TPR has been court ordered.
Prepare Legal And Other Required Documents For Adoption. Establish a child's eligibility for adoption assistance and complete
assistance requirements.
Recruit adoptive families for children.
Placement Resource Manager Essential Job Functions Evaluate prospective foster, kinship, and adoptive families using
standardized home studies, background investigations, home inspections,
and interviews.
Certify and recertify foster, kinship, and adoptive families based on
state requirements.
Provide initial and ongoing training to placement resource families.
Ensure ongoing compliance of both certified and non-certified placement
providers.
Participate in ongoing recruitment and retention events.
Minimum Requirements Education and Experience
A bachelor's degree from a higher education institution with coursework
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