RRTS Caseworker -Ankeny

RRTS Caseworker
-Ankeny

Ankeny Campus
- Ankeny, IA 50023

Salary Range $43,888.00 - $48,000.00 Salary/year Position Type Full Time Education Level Bachelor's Degree Category Nonprofit
- Social Services

Help Build Brighter Futures – Join Four Oaks as a Foster Care Licensing Caseworker!

Are you passionate about helping children and families? Do you enjoy building relationships, supporting others, and making a difference in your community?

At Four Oaks, we believe every child deserves a safe, stable, and loving home. We're looking for a compassionate, motivated, and dedicated Caseworker to join our team in the Ankeny/Des Moines area!

This is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to help families open their hearts and homes to children who need them most.

As a Foster Care Licensing Caseworker, you'll play an important role in helping foster and adoptive families through the licensing process while providing ongoing support and guidance.

Here's what your day-to-day could look like:

• Help families get started! Connect with prospective foster families, complete initial screenings, and guide them through the licensing process.
• Get to know the families you serve! Conduct home visits and complete detailed, unbiased home studies for prospective and current foster and adoptive families.
• Be their go-to support! Build strong relationships with Resource Families, providing encouragement, guidance, and resources whether they currently have a child placed in their home or not.
• Help children find stability! Work alongside families to support safe, stable placements for as long as they are needed.
• Support the adoption journey! Assist pre-adoptive families throughout the adoption process to help create lasting, successful placements.
• Help find the right fit! Assist with placement referrals, assess family strengths and needs, and help identify appropriate homes for children and youth.
• Work through challenges together! Help troubleshoot placement concerns and respond to time-sensitive requests for available Resource Families.
• Share your knowledge! Assist with pre-service and ongoing training to help foster and adoptive families feel prepared and supported.
• Stay connected! Work closely with Iowa Health and Human Services (HHS), Juvenile Court Services (JCS), and other community partners.
• Keep things organized! Complete initial, renewal, update, ICPC, and relative home studies, maintain accurate Care Match documentation, and submit required reports on time.
• Be out in the community! Travel throughout the Ankeny/Des Moines area to meet with families in their homes, attend meetings, and participate in training and support activities.
• Help families stay on track! Guide Resource Families through Iowa licensing requirements and help them maintain compliance with state standards.

Every child deserves someone in their corner, and every foster family needs support along the way.

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Make a meaningful difference in the lives of children and families.
• Build lasting relationships with foster and adoptive families.
• Help create safe, stable, and supportive homes for children.
• Work alongside community partners who share the same goal of helping families succeed.
• Be part of a team that understands the importance of supporting one another.

We're looking for someone who:

• Has a genuine passion for helping children and families.
• Enjoys working with people and building positive relationships.
• Is organized, dependable, and able to manage multiple responsibilities.
• Has strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Can complete detailed assessments, reports, and documentation while meeting deadlines.
• Is comfortable…