Job Details
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Driver's License
- Safety plans
Benefits
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Job Description
Social Services Case Manager ($25/hour)
Job Description:
Under general supervision, the Social Services Specialist 1 provides investigative and comprehensive case management for a caseload involving child/adult abuse or neglect. Makes immediate and follow-up actions for at risk clients in need of protective services and/or placement.
Job Duties:
· Initiates timely, face-to-face responses to screened-in reports of alleged child maltreatment and conducts assessments that identify and address safety concerns.
· Addresses identified safety concerns by immediately developing and implementing safety plans.
· Conducts diligent search efforts to locate the child/family when unable to make contact.
· Implements Solution Based Casework (SBC).
· Partners with child(ren) and parents in the development and utilization of the Family Functioning Agreement, Action Plan, and Family Plan to achieve desired individual and family-level outcomes.
· Completes genograms to identify available family support network.
· Collaborates with community partners to create systems of support for children and families.
· Ensures that frequency and quality of visits with children and families are adequate to ensure safety, permanency, and well-being.
· Identifies the physical, educational, and mental/behavioral health needs of children, parents, and foster parents and ensures identified needs were effectively addressed.
· Establishes permanency goals for the child(ren).
· Ensures foster care placements and/or living situations are stable and in the best interests of the child(ren) and are consistent with achieving established permanency goal(s).
· Makes concerted efforts to achieve permanency for children in a timely manner and consistent with regulations contained in the Adoptions and Safe Families Act.
· Ensures that siblings in foster care are placed together unless a separation is necessary to meet the needs of one of the siblings.
· Maintains child's connections to his or her neighborhood, community, faith, extended family, tribe, school, and friends.
· Promotes, supports, and otherwise maintains a positive and nurturing relationship between the child(ren) in care and their biological parents/caretakers by encouraging and facilitating activities and interactions beyond visitation.
· Documents case management activities within time frames established by policy.
· Celebrates positive outcomes with child(ren) and family.
· Utilizes privately owned vehicle for work-related travel and duties (including transportation of children).
· Routinely serves on after-hours on-call duty.
· Embraces ongoing learning and professional development opportunities.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $25.00 - $30.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Atlanta, GA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Preferred)
Work Location: In person