Lead Social Worker

The Lead Licensed Social Worker provides advanced clinical leadership, direct client care, and case management oversight within the program. This role combines hands-on client support with team leadership, quality assurance, and collaboration across disciplines to ensure high-quality, trauma-informed, and outcomes-driven services. The Lead Social Worker serves as a subject-matter expert, mentor, and resource for staff while maintaining a manageable caseload.

• Support onboarding, training, and mentorship of new team members.
• Review case plans and documentation for quality, accuracy, and compliance.
• Model ethical and professional social work standards and boundaries.
• Assist leadership in implementing and overseeing Find Hope/Choose Help practices and protocols. Provide clinical guidance and consultation to social work staff and case managers.
• When appropriate, provide site supervision to bachelor or master’s level interns providing services within our organization.

• Provide direct time-limited case management, crisis intervention, and stabilization services to clients receiving emergency shelter services.
• Monitor client progress and adjust service plans as needed.
• Manage a caseload of higher-acuity or complex cases.
• When appropriate conduct biopsychosocial assessments and develop individualized, goal-oriented case plans.

• Partner with intake specialists and multidisciplinary teams to ensure holistic care.
• Participate and/or facilitate in case conferences and interdisciplinary care planning.
• Coordinate care with external providers and community partners.

• Connect clients to housing, healthcare, employment, legal, and public benefits resources.
• Advocate for client access to services and removal of systemic barriers.
• Build and maintain relationships with community agencies.

• Maintain timely, accurate, and compliant client records.
• Track outcomes and contribute to program reporting and data collection.
• Ensure documentation meets licensing, funding, and organizational standards.

• Facilitate psycho educational groups and workshops on life skills, housing navigation, and job readiness.
• Support development of curriculum and group content.

• Build rapport and foster a strengths-based, trauma-informed environment.
• Encourage client self-sufficiency, goal setting, and accountability.

• Support a safe, structured, and welcoming environment for clients.
• Assist in de-escalation and behavioral support when needed.
• Collaborate with program staff to maintain consistent client expectations.

• Stay current on evidence-based practices, ethics, and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in ongoing trainings and professional development.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.

• Humbly Serve:
  You strive to live, Love and Lead like Jesus.
• Faithfully Steward:
  You honor and wisely use the time, talent and treasures that God has provided.
• Courageously Innovate:
  You are driven towards excellence, you continuously learn, adapt and improve.
• Joyfully celebrate:
  You intentionally appreciate and recognize all that God is doing in and through all the stakeholders of Atlanta Mission.
• Strength in Unity:
  You embrace God’s desire for oneness and kingdom-focused unity.

• Active state licensure as an LCSW, LMSW
• Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) from an accredited program.
• 3–5+ years of social work or case management experience, preferably in crisis, shelter, or community-based settings.
• Prior experience providing clinical guidance or informal supervision strongly preferred.
• Strong crisis intervention and de-escalation skills.
• Knowledge of community resources, housing systems, and public benefits.
• Excellent documentation and organizational skills.
• Ability to balance leadership responsibilities with direct service.
• Trauma-informed and culturally responsive approach to care.

• Must have the ability to remain in a stationary position (standing, walking and sitting)
• Must have the ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Must be able to occasionally ascend/descend stairs
• Must have the ability to constantly operate a computer and other office equipment

• Occasionally exposed to outdoor weather conditions during events
• Moderate noise as in a business office environment

• Retirement Savings with Matching Contribution
• Medical Insurance
• Dental & Vision Insurance

• 10 Paid Holidays
• 4 Mental Health Days
• Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability
• Travel Assistance Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Medical Concierge
• Spiritual & Professional Training & Development