Social Worker; Child and Family Team Facilitator

The Social Worker, under general supervision, provides professional social work services to clients in a variety of settings including local human service agencies, correctional facilities, hospitals, schools, medical facilities, patient/client homes, etc. 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. Employee addresses problems such 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 rehabilitation plans, behavior management, and other problem areas or needs.

Employee may be involved in recruitment, evaluation, and training of foster parents and other care providers, provide care management services and coordinate with a multidisciplinary team, or provide care management services to pregnant Medicaid recipients and may develop community or service resources and/or develop volunteer programs. In certain treatment settings worker participates on rehabilitation/treatment teams and provides the social work perspective.

Positions at this level combine difficult services performed under supervisory guidance with relatively conventional services performed under more relaxed supervision.

• Provides Case Management and Foster Care Services for children who have been neglected and/or abused.
• Provides Social Work services including treatment and immediate response to crisis situations for at risk children and families.
• Manages a caseload of clients in the most difficult and complex cases.
• Provides treatment in group, family or individual therapy to clients of any age and/or with any developmental, mental, medical, financial, substance abuse or family problem including abused, neglected or homeless children.
• Performs clinical and social investigation, assessment of individuals and family dynamics, and crisis intervention.
• Knowledge of social work principles, techniques and practices and their applications to complex casework, treatment, and investigation of abuse or neglect of children.
• Knowledge of policies and procedures as evidenced by the ability to cite the authority of federal and state law.
• Knowledge of individual and group behavior, family dynamics, and medical, behavioral and/or psychosocial problems and their treatment theory.
• Knowledge of governmental and private organizations and resources in the community.
• Exercises considerable judgment in determining whether abuse or neglect has occurred, to what extent and how it occurred.
• Selects appropriate treatment for the family and clients, requiring significant understanding of their personalities based on assessments and interviews.
• Facilitates Child and Family Team meetings.
• Provides referrals for treatment and placement in foster care or residential facilities.
• Provides expert testimony in court hearings as to the progress of the case.
• Conducts home visits at least once a month for each foster child assigned to the case.
• Attends school meetings to advocate for the educational needs of the children served.
• Maintains contact with parents, therapist, GAL, CDSA, CC4C, attorneys, medical providers, substance abuse agencies, domestic violence agencies, and relatives as it relates to the needs of the child and family.
• Attends therapy appointments and doctor/medical appointments with children, and to obtain medical forms completed by a doctor.
• Completes strengths and needs monthly and Family Reunification assessments for cases where the plan is reunification.
• Interacts and motivates a resistant involuntary client population and the public who may not agree with the laws, rules or policies of the process or the programs.
• Prepares…