CFWS Social Service Specialist ; SSS- Bremerton

Job Title

CFWS Lead Worker - Social Service Specialist 4 (SSS4).

Bremerton, WA – Region 5.

06/18/2026

$73,284 - $98,520 Annually. 10% assignment pay is also provided.

This position functions as a Lead Worker over Social Service Specialists who provide professional-level social services to clients involved with Child Family Welfare Services (CFWS). The role involves advanced case management, coaching, mentoring, and converting staff from formal training to fieldwork, as well as unit supervisory duties.

• Serves as the lead worker assigned to the most complex cases, determined by the supervisor or Area Administrator.
• Provides on-the-job training, mentoring, feedback, coaching, and consultation to staff in multiple Field Operations program areas.
• Serves as the lead position over Social Service Specialists and Social Service Support Specialists (SSSS, SSS1, SSS2, and SSS3 levels).
• In conjunction with the supervisor, assigns work, reviews work for efficacy, uses data to identify trends, and reviews case actions for accuracy.
• Provides feedback and reporting to the supervisor on employees’ performance and training needs.
• Provides coverage of assigned caseloads in the absence of a Social Service Specialist.
• In the supervisor’s absence, attends meetings and provides supervisory coverage.
• Prepares and provides testimony at administrative hearings, court proceedings, and criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings.
• Refers, coordinates, and monitors the delivery of services.
• Provides goal-directed, task-centered, and time-limited crisis intervention to children and families.
• Utilizes shared planning activities to obtain input from others to develop and coordinate collaborative case plans.
• Trains, coaches, and supports Social Service Specialists in preparing court reports, court testimony, hearings, and proceedings.
• Provides staff with guidance and training on caseload and time management, case actions, appropriate assessment, and intervention techniques.
• Provides staff with guidance and training on applying the Safety Framework and Structured Decision-Making process to assess risk and safety through the life of a case.
• Places dependent children in foster or other approved placements (if necessary, for the most complex cases).
• Permanency Planning.
• Utilizes Fam Link to document case activities and maintain case records/files.
• Prepares and files dependency petitions, guardianship petitions, and other legal documents related to the implementation of permanent plans.
• Prepares court reports, serves summonses, attends court hearings, and provides testimony in court.
• Produces Discovery.

• Seven (7) years of paid social service experience
  * AND 30 semester or 45 quarter credits in a Social Service discipline.
• A Bachelor’s degree in social services, human services, behavioral sciences or a related field AND three (3) years of paid social service experience*.
• A Master’s degree in social services, human services, behavioral sciences or a related field AND two (2) years of paid social service experience* (or a two-year Master’s including a practicum may substitute for one year of paid experience).
• One (1) year of experience as a Social Service Specialist 3 AND the ability to take action to learn and grow, and to meet the needs of others.

* Paid Social Service experience must include at least one year of assessing risk and safety to children and providing direct family-centered practice services.

• Child welfare experience in program areas:
  Child Protective Services (CPS), Child and Family Welfare Services (CFWS), Family Voluntary Services (FVS), Family Reconciliation Services (FRS), Family Assessment Response (FAR), and Adoptions/Permanency.
• Master's in Social Work and completed practicum.
• Case management experience with mandatory clients.
• Knowledge of child development and/or family systems.
• Professional experience working with clients who have mental health or substance use disorders, developmental delays, or criminal behaviors.
• Experience researching, interpreting, and applying Child Welfare laws, rules, and policies, and delivering services accordingly.
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