Social Worker Ii; Foster Licensing

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Durham County Government is home to over 2,000 dedicated professionals working together to deliver essential services that strengthen and support our vibrant, diverse community. As the heart of a fast-growing region, we offer meaningful careers across a wide range of fields—giving you the opportunity to make a real impact where you live, work, grow, and play. Learn more nc.gov.

SOCIAL SERVICES (DSS)

October 7, 2026

October 25, 2026

$54,312.00 - $73,289.00

FULL-TIME, EXEMPT

Work in this class involves providing professional social work services to clients seeking services in a county human services agency. Work involves evaluating the client's situation and his/her ability to deal with it, developing a social history, psychosocial assessment, service plan and/ or treatment plan and follow-up. Services may include placement In a residential facility; basic counseling, support, and reinforcement in areas such as death and dying, employment, vocational, medical, health, or behavioral issues.

Employees address such problems as adjustment to illness or disability, placement into an institution, rest home or nursing facility; financial concerns; socialization issues of the socially handicapped or those debilitated by age or illness. They may provide information to and confer with schools, natural parents and foster parents on habilitation plans, behavior management, and other problem areas or needs. Employees may be involved in recruitment, evaluation, and training of foster parents and other care providers.

Employees may develop community or service resources and/or develop volunteer programs. In certain treatment settings workers participate on habilitation/treatment teams and provide the social work perspective. Positions at this level combine difficult services performed under supervisory guidance with relatively conventional services performed under more relaxed supervision. Work is differentiated from Social Worker I by the range of cases, the difficulty of personal contacts.

and the theoretical knowledge required to perform the work. Employees report to a higher level professional or program manager.

The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this position. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the position as necessary.

• Provides assistance to resource parents to ensure their ability to meet the needs of children placed in their home as well as the ongoing needs of the Agency.
• Completes necessary paperwork for licensing within mandated time frames of the Agency including those requested by ICPC to become licensed.
• Performs home visits/assessments and individual interviews to determine if families and their residences are appropriate for licensure.
• Performs re-evaluations/re-licensing on foster homes and completes all necessary paperwork within the state regulated timeframe.
• Creates and conducts events to make contact prospective resource parents and assist with retention of current resource famlies.
• Prepares for NTDC training and provides training and support to resource parents
• Remains up to date with changing NC licensing regulations and standards.
• Conducts at least…