Child Welfare Social Case Worker

About the role

For the first 12 months of employment, the social caseworker is a professional training level position with intensive supervision and/or coaching by the county department in which assignments are limited to fifty percent (50%) of the county's average workload or ten (10) assessments and/or cases at any given time, whichever is less, and are planned and devised to develop and teach professional social casework techniques, basic foundations, and concepts appropriate to the assigned areas. Essential Duties: Duties may include completing a family, safety and risk assessment, facilitate the process of gathering assessment information and jointly developing treatment plans with families and service providers. Ensuring shared decision-making, family involvement and movement of case toward resolution. Essential Job Functions: (The following duty statements are illustrative of the essential functions of the job and do not include other non-essential or marginal duties that may be required.) 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 w