Social Caseworker – In-Home Professional (Loved Ones Family Time Unit

Job Summary

To be considered, applicants must upload their unofficial transcripts with their completed application.

Are you energized by solving complex problems, thinking critically, and making independent decisions that have a lasting impact on children and families? Do you enjoy tackling new challenges, building meaningful relationships, and finding creative solutions where no two situations are the same? If you're resourceful, adaptable, and confident working independently while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, we encourage you to apply.

In this role, you'll work directly with families in their homes and community settings during supervised family time, helping parents strengthen their parenting skills while assessing family dynamics and supporting safe, meaningful interactions. You'll connect families with community resources, navigate complex situations with sound judgment, and make thoughtful decisions that promote child safety and family reunification. Every day brings new opportunities to problem-solve, adapt, and empower families as they work toward creating safe, stable environments for their children.

Hiring Range: $57,800.00 - $62,800.00 annually Anticipated Hiring Rate: $60,538.40 annually This is a child protection position; child protection includes engaging families. It is reasonable to anticipate the need for flexibility in work hours periodically to accommodate client schedules. The average workday hours are Monday-Friday 8:00am
-5:00pm, with a minimum required two evenings per week until at least 7:00 pm. Schedule is subject to change. Due to the sensitive nature of this role, additional background checks may be required, including a Government Program Fraud check, Child Welfare Abuse & Neglect database (TRAILS) check, and Welfare Caseworker Falsification check. Please be advised this position may close without advance notice, should we receive a sufficient number of qualified applications.

Works to preserve and/or rehabilitate families while protecting children's physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Provides intensive in-home child protection services to families with children as a result of an abuse and/or neglect complaint with the primary concern of substance abuse. Coordinates with the Practice Unit and is responsible for primary decision-making of child protection practices as needed. Employment is subject to the terms, conditions, and policies detailed in the Personnel Policies Manual (PPM).

This position requires regular in-person presence as an essential job function.

• Provides in-home instruction to families, strengthening parental competency by promoting family independence by teaching family skill practice to include problem-solving, anger management, conflict resolution, household management, home cleaning, and by explaining how to access community resources and support systems.
• Addresses and teaches clients how to meet and sustain basic needs as well as clients' health and wellbeing, including the impact on the child's health and wellbeing.
• Provides crisis management for clients to resolve problems and conflicts.
• Assists clients with milestones and other assigned homework for specialty courts.
• In collaboration with the case team, assists in the development of support/healthy living plans.
• Coordinates community resources for clients, including rehabilitation services, as needed.
• Monitors, tracks, and reports compliance with court orders concerning areas such as individual/family therapy, medication management, and substance abuse treatment in collaboration with assigned caseworker.
• Coordinates, prepares, and participates in Treatment Support Meetings (TSM) and Family Engagement Meetings (FEM).
• Attends and testifies in court hearings; participates in pre-court staffings.
• Documents all contacts and ensures that all paperwork and documentation are accurately completed and filed; completes necessary case information reports and inputs updates into database.
• Arranges and provides transportation for clients to appointments, therapy, school, court hearings, pre-placement visits, etc.
• Performs child welfare duties and provides…