Foster Care Social/Case Worker

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 – After one year of employment, the agency contributes 4% of your plan year earnings into a savings account for you and will match dollar-for-dollar up to 4% of salary if an employee makes contributions to the plan.
• PTO – earn 16 days off for vacation, sick, or personal time in your first year. This goes up to 22 days in your second year and keeps climbing every five years.
• Holidays – Enjoy eleven paid holidays
• Other paid leave at no cost to employees – bereavement, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid parental leave
• Virginia Credit Union memberships
• Employee Assistance program – Free services including five free confidential consultations with a mental health professional
• Medical Insurance – a choice of 4 PPO plans for employee, employee + spouse, employee + child(ren), or family coverage. A portion of premiums subsidized by the agency.
• Dental Insurance – a choice of two dental plans for employee, employee + spouse, employee + child(ren), or family coverage. A portion of premiums subsidized by the agency.
• Vision Insurance
• Life insurance – paid by agency with option to purchase additional coverage
• Other insurance benefits – flexible spending accounts including dependent care, health savings account (for qualified HDHP participants), legal resources