Social Worker A&T

Make a lasting difference in our community as a Social Worker I with Franklin County
! In this vital role, you will be on the front lines of hope, providing essential care, guidance, and life-changing support to individuals and families when they need it most. If you are a compassionate professional driven by empathy, skilled in crisis response, and dedicated to advocate for vulnerable populations, we invite you to bring your passion to a supportive team that values your impact and invests in your career.

Compensation: $60,860-$63,903

To Be Determined Based on Experience and Qualifications

Franklin County offers a competitive benefit package designed to encourage and support your health, well-being and productivity.

• medical and dental insurance
• elective supplemental insurance options such as short-term disability, vision, and voluntary term life
• local government retirement
• 401(k) with a 4% employer contribution (no employee match required)
• generous paid leave that includes 13 county-observed paid holidays per year
• an employee wellness program inclusive of a county sponsored gym and an employee assistant program

This employee is scheduled to work 8:00am until 5:00pm Monday through Friday excluding county recognized holidays. This position requires after-hours, on-call coverage for the agency. Frequent unscheduled overtime and other after-hours work is also required. Employee will work emergency shelters on a rotating schedule during times of disaster.

Child Protective Services Assessment, Investigations and Treatment Services:

Caseworker must respond to legally mandated reports of abuse, neglect, and dependency within a defined timeframe. This response should follow best practice guidelines for the appropriate track of either a Family Assessment or Investigation. Activities of either track include interviewing and observing all members of the alleged victim child's household, the household itself, the child's daily environment, identifying and interviewing key collateral contacts and participating in Child and Family Team Meetings.

Employee must assess several key areas of the family's interactions including the child's safety in the home, the family's risk level, the family's overall strengths and needs and the family's compliance with the identified service needs. All state and federal mandates must be met and documented within the NCFAST Automated System. Employee must continually assess need for Juvenile Court involvement and/or Foster Care placement of the child should the risk level become too great.

Employee must also ensure that family is referred to appropriate services as needed and monitor that the family is accessing these services. Employee must coordinate Child and Family Team Meetings to develop goal-specific, targeted, and measurable case plans designed to maintain the child in the home (family preservation) and designed to reduce the child's risk of abuse, neglect, or dependency by assisting the family in correcting the issues that lead to original involvement.

Employee is responsible for reviewing previous Child Protective Services records and must identity and request records from other key professional agencies. Employee is also responsible for coordinating with other agencies to provide the family with any and all services identified, not limited to Child Protective Services. Employee testifies in court, works with court officials, and prepares documents for court submission.

On-Call Coverage:
Caseworker will serve as agency-on-call worker on a rotational basis. According to North Carolina General Statue, the agency must provide protective services for children and adults at all times. In addition to receiving and assessing reports of child and adult abuse/neglect, the agency receives requests for other types of assistance after normal business hours. Such assistance includes crisis management of children in foster care and adults for whom the agency has been appointed legal guardian.

Other types of assistance requested involves emergency shelter assistance for homeless people, food, heating and cooling related crisis and crisis involving domestic violence and mental health issues. On-call responsibility is rotated among child welfare social workers classified as a Social Worker IA&T.

Thorough knowledge of social work principles, techniques and practices and their applications to complex casework, treatment, and…