Foster Support Lead Social Case Worker

Lead Social Case Worker

Denver Human Services is seeking a dedicated and experienced Lead Social Case Worker to serve on the Placement Services team. Placement Services certifies foster homes and provides ongoing Foster Care Support. In this role, you will assist the Placement Services Supervisor, mentor staff, and lead the team by taking on high-level and complex cases.

As a Lead Social Case Worker, you will perform permanently assigned lead work over professional social case workers, assist with Social Case Worker Supervisor establish unit goals, plans, and specific unit functions. You will also provide intensive social case work services including case management, counseling, referral, placement, and assessment/evaluation.

The Lead Social Case Worker will:

• Assess high-risk level assessments and ongoing cases
• Coach, train, and mentor staff at various levels of experience
• Demonstrate critical decision-making skills with their staff and section
• Assist Social Case Worker Supervisors and perform supervisory roles in their absence
• Demonstrate competencies and critical decision-making skills when working with intake assessments, ongoing cases, and youth cases
• Lead by example and set a precedent for Social Case Workers
• Attend voices meetings and court hearings with Social Case Workers when needed

We value diversity of ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, gender, religion, language, ability, and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels. You'll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself, your work, the people around you and Denver to the next level.

Our ideal candidate has:

• Knowledge and experience working with foster/kinship providers
• The ability to engage and communicate with difficult personalities
• The capability to coach, train, and mentor others
• A positive, professional, and proactive attitude

• Education Requirement:
  Requirements as set forth in Colorado Department of Human Services Volume 7 and/or Volume 30 regulations.
• Experience Requirement:
  Requirements as set forth in Colorado Department of Human Services Volume 7 and/or Volume 30 regulations;
  Three (3) years of post-graduation professional social case work experience at the type and level of Social Case Worker.
  
  Education and Experience Equivalency:
  No substitution of experience for education is permitted.
• Additional appropriate education may be substituted for experience requirements.
• License/Certification Requirement:
  By position, requires a valid Driver's License at the time of application.
• Licenses and certifications must be kept current as a condition of employment.
• Requires certification as a social case worker in Child Welfare or Adult Protective Services in accordance with CDHS regulations.

Please attach your official or unofficial transcripts of your completed undergraduate and/or graduate degree in the required attachment section.

This posting is expected to stay open until November 1st. Please submit your application as soon as possible no later than November 1st at 11:59 p.m. MST.