Child Welfare Social Case Worker I - Permanency

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