Child Welfare Services Case Manager Supervisor

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Agency: Family and Children Services, Division of

Job Requisition : JR

Shift: Day (United States of America)

Compensation Details: $59,265.47

Job Description:

Stronger Families for a Stronger Georgia. The Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS) is a dynamic state agency responsible for delivering a wide range of services to Georgia's most vulnerable populations. Our mission is to strengthen Georgia by providing individuals and families access to services that promote self-sufficiency, independence, and protect Georgia's vulnerable children and adults.

Start your career in public service
. The DHS Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS), Child Welfare, is seeking candidates to fill the position of Child Welfare Services Case Manager Supervisor
, reporting to a Child Welfare Services Administrator. This position is in Gainesville, Hall County.

What we offer. Enjoy a generous benefits package that includes:

• unique training opportunities
• employee retirement plan: 401(k) plan and 457 plan
• 13 paid holidays
• vacation & sick leave
• medical
• dental
• vision
• long/short-term care
• life insurance
• employee discount programs
• telework opportunities depending upon the position(s)

Join Our Team!

• Supervise and plan work of assigned staff
• Serve as job expert or organization resource in assigned areas
• Access and record client and community resource information
• Collect evidence, interviews witnesses, and prepare necessary reports according to rules and regulations, state and federal laws
• Compile records and prepare reports; performs follow-up to determine the status of client's case
• Conduct home-visit evaluations for information gathering to be used in assessments
• Coordinate and monitor children in out-of-home placements and in-home interventions
• Coordinate and monitor services, including comprehensive tracking of client's activities
• Develop case plans that effectively utilize community resources to meet needs of individual custodial client
• Identify placement resources for children within the foster care system
• Initiate the legal process for guardianship, protective services, placement and/or adoption
• Maintain required documentation and completes reports
• Make immediate assessments regarding safety of clients and respond according to established protocol and policies
• Perform initial investigations of protective services referrals to determine the appropriateness of protective services intervention
• Work in collaboration with legal system to ensure safety and achieve desired outcomes
• Review, approve/disapprove, or render decisions on casework being performed by staff

• Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of job-related case management experience;

OR

• One (1) year of experience at the lower-level Child Welfare Svcs Case Mgr 3 (SSP
  072) or position equivalent.

Note: Behavioral Science degrees include but are not limited to the following: social science, psychology, sociology, child development, family studies, criminal justice, education, public health, public administration, nursing.

* Case Management experience would include one or any combination of the following work responsibilities: assessments; home evaluations; staffing; work with individuals, families, groups organizations and/or communication of the goal of behavioral changes; work with child safety or…