Foster Care Social/Case Worker

This position arranges for placement of minors in foster care and provides case management services to them. The position requires a social work degree and experience in providing casework services to children and families.

Requirements

• Provide case management to minors in the foster care program.
• Prepares and maintains complete and accurate case files, records, and reports to the court, Department of Social Services, Department of Health and Human Services and other appropriate agencies as specified.
• Coordinates with school personnel to provide individualized services to minors.
• Supervises placement by visiting with minor and foster care families to monitor placement progress and provide appropriate intervention when indicated.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate individualized service plans for each minor.
• Assists in the orientation, training, certification, and supervision of foster families and minors.
• Provides crisis intervention services and on-call emergency beeper coverage.
• Participates in staff trainings. May facilitate training to staff and foster parents, as assigned.
• Participate in development of permanency planning including aftercare as appropriate.
• Provide on-going training, guidance and assessment of foster families.
• Conduct Independent Living skills training and Independent Living assessment.
• May be assigned cases specific to family reunification cases for the Safe Passages Grant Program.
• Assists in developing community partnerships and resources.
• Completes reports and updates to stakeholders/referral agencies and serving as liaison for community partner agencies.
• Participates in the development and update of procedures and forms.
• Provides crisis on-call support and coverage.
• Tracks policy and procedural changes from agency partners and educates staff.
• Maintains a working knowledge of all foster families in the program to assist in child placement.
• Staff member may be assigned cases and specific tasks if service location provides services to UAC and URM children.
• Represents the Agency in the community and workplace in a professional and ethical manner.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal, decision-making, problem-solving, oral, and written skills.
• Utilizes a basic knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.

Benefits

• Retirement savings
• PTO
• Holidays
• Bereavement leave
• Short-term disability leave
• Long-term disability leave
• Paid parental leave
• Virginia Credit Union memberships
• Employee Assistance program
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life insurance