Social Service Supervisor - Wellbeing and Permanency

Social Service Supervisor – Wellbeing and Permanency

Location:

Bolivar County, Mississippi.

Salary: $58,934.39 - $71,208.86 Annually.

Full‑time.

Social Service Supervisor (Frontline) in the Wellbeing and Permanency Unit. Responsibilities include supervising and supporting case management activities that promote child safety, permanency, and wellbeing. Duties include conducting safety and risk assessments, identifying safety concerns, ensuring safety plans are developed, implemented, and monitored, gathering demographic information, ensuring diligent search efforts, maintaining visit frequency and quality, identifying physical, educational, and mental/behavioral health needs, coordinating with internal and external supports, coordinating with local youth court, ensuring foster care placements and living arrangements are stable, achieving timely permanency in accordance with the Adoption and Safe Families Act, maintaining sibling placements when possible, supporting child connections to community, faith, extended family, tribe, school, and friends, documenting case management activities, preparing professional court reports, providing recommendations in court proceedings, participating in ongoing learning and professional development, and handling work‑related travel and after‑hours on‑call duty.

A valid driver’s license and automobile insurance are required.

• Professional commitment to and caring about clients and the larger profession of child welfare.
• Personal resilience and strong self‑efficacy beliefs about the ability to work with clients to produce positive client outcomes.
• Efficient organizational and time‑management skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Positive work morale.
• Ability to be flexible in thinking and problem solving.
• Realistic expectations about the difficulty and challenges of the work.
• Ability to handle an often‑unpredictable work environment.

• Typically a bachelor’s degree in social work, social services, psychology, educational psychology, sociology, nursing, criminal justice, counseling, marriage and family therapy, family studies, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in child welfare.
• 1-3 years of supervisory experience.
  
  Master’s degree and/or social worker’s license preferred.

Address: 210 East Capitol Street, Suite 800, Jackson, Mississippi, 39201.