Caseworker II

• Location 15193 Highway 119,Black Hawk, CO, 80422,United States
• Base Pay $21.15 - $29.61 / Hour
• Job Category Human Services
• Employee Type FT Non-Exempt

Primary Responsibility: The Caseworker II position provides intake and/or ongoing social casework services for a variety of program areas including child abuse and neglect cases, youth-in-conflict cases, and adults unable to protect their own interests.

Supervised by: Child & Adult Protection Program Manager

Salary Range: NE7 - $21.15 – $29.61

Hiring Range: $21.15 – $25.38 per hour DOQ

FSLA Status: Non-Exempt

Main

Job Duties:

• Conducts assessments of alleged physical abuse, neglect and parent-conflicts; determines if situation warrants placing children outside the home; supervises placement of children in foster care and coordinates parent child visits; and determines when and if to recommend that children return to the home.
• Develops effective case plans and provides counseling services to families regarding parenting skills, family dynamics, parent-child relationships and conflict with the community. Assesses any new child abuse complaints and provides crisis intervention in these situations.
• Provides intake assessment and evaluation, ongoing counseling services, and case planning to a variety of other cases including adults unable to protect their own interests, family conflicts and youth-in-conflict cases.
• Answer hotline calls for child welfare and adult protection. Receive incoming calls of a possible crisis nature. Gather all information needed utilizing screening questions and document in the state-wide data bases.
• Determines the need for recommending placement of clients into foster Locates placement appropriate to client's needs. Monitors client's progress in placement.
• Makes home visits with clients, organizes services such as cleaning, day care, financial assistance, health (physical and mental), legal and provides information on available services.
• Testifies in court on a variety of cases; makes recommendations to the courts on abuse and neglect cases, placement of children, and guardianship of adults.
• Develops and writes reports for appropriate documentation of case plans, recommendations, contacts, assessments, develops case file information, completes forms and writes correspondence.

• Performs other appropriate duties as assigned by the Human Services Director and any duties needed to stabilize an emergency

Hours:

• Must be available for on-call coverage; including nights and weekends.

Requirements:

Education:

• A bachelor's degree from a higher education institution with course work related to the job responsibilities of child welfare social caseworker. Course work examples can include and are not limited to, the development of human behavior, child development, family intervention techniques, diagnostic measures, or therapeutic techniques;

AND

• Professional, internship, or volunteer work experience in a human services related agency.
• Must successfully complete the requirements of the Colorado Child Welfare Training Academy as a condition of their continued employment with the County. Must complete annual training to maintain child welfare and adult protection certifications.

Working knowledge of:

• Established theories, principles, and concepts of social casework practice related to the assigned program areas.
• Battered child syndrome, and the laws dealing with child abuse, neglect and other dependency conditions.
• Community resources, agency rules, regulations and procedures related to child and adult protection.

Ability to:

• Learn regulations, laws, and procedures and develops knowledge of casework techniques and methodologies.
• Maintain effective working relationships with legal, medical, psychiatric professional, members of the judicial system, clients; community organizations and resources; foster parents and other members for the purpose of developing effective treatment plans for clients and to help clients solve problems and to educate the community about protections of clients and services available.
• Recognize, investigate and analyze a variety of complex problems and to make effective recommendations for solutions.
• Willingness to work as a…