Social Worker, Family Advocacy & Support Services

Job Details

Job Location:

Tidewater Regional Center - Virginia Beach, VA 23462

Position Type:
Part Time

Salary Range: $18.00 - $23.00 Hourly

Provide clinical social work and supportive services to Treatment Foster Care, Adoption, and Community-Based clients and families. Provide a full range of services including intake, assessment, clinical support, crisis intervention, referral, report writing, family reunification, family recruitment and discharge planning and maintaining case files.

• Assess the placement and treatment needs of clients in Treatment Foster Care program to meet their service plan upon intake into the program.
• Develop, implement, and reassess comprehensive treatment plans for each assigned client.
• Conduct home visits to assigned clients to assess client’s level of care, and provide guidance toward meeting their treatment goals. Provide clinical interventions and coaching to resource parents to assist with the progress of foster or adoptive children placed in their home including crisis intervention strategies as needed.
• Provide on-going support to resource parents, guiding and encouraging them as they care for clients in their home including assisting them with obtaining needed services for clients through referrals to community resources. Advocate for appropriate client services with court, family, and school systems.
• Periodically assists with events to recruit, certify, train, and support of resource parents.
• Reassess each client’s progress on an ongoing basis, and update the progress toward treatment goals. Coordinate the involvement and participation of placement agency representatives, birth parents, resource parents, education and court personnel, and, as needed, psychologists and/or medical consultants, when updating the needs and treatment plan.
• Maintain case files for each client according to licensing standards as to content, accuracy, thoroughness and confidentiality. Produce a variety of reports, including intake, treatment plans, social history, quarterly, incident, discharge, home studies, court, discharge, and FAPT reports.
• Provide service coordination among referring agencies such as the Department of Social Services, Community Services Boards, Family Assessment and Planning Teams, and others.
• Represent your client and the agency at meetings such as FAPT, court, IEP, treatment team, medication management, and others as needed.
• Provide “on-call” responsibilities to respond to after-hours emergencies as assigned by program.
• Conduct the home studies and re-evaluations as assigned.
• Assist with the intake of clients.

• Provide supportive services assisting in the reunification process, to include but not limited to visitation, mentoring, clinical support services.
• Provide clinical support services for approved clients and families in the community; coordinate with the assigned Shineforth staff and document strategies and progress related to the treatment goals for the client.
• Provide clinical and supportive services while coordinating with other professionals such as Department of Social Services, Community Services Boards, FAPT Teams, internal Shineforth programs, and others. This includes advocacy and supportive activities on behalf of families.
• Work a flexible schedule (evenings and weekends) to provide home-based interventions, facilitate individual, group and family counseling that meet the diverse needs of families.

• Effectively use a variety of computer software applications including Microsoft Office and the Internet to produce documentation as required for the position. Learn and become proficient in any program specific technologies such as Evolv.
• Responsible for accomplishing 2-3 measurable annual Individual Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), providing concrete data to illustrate progress on 90-day Individual Priorities, and participating in Team Huddles.
• Use effective and sensitive communication skills to build positive relationships with clients, families, staff and referring sources ensuring confidentiality.
• Report any (and if possible, provides intervention for) incident of abuse or potential abuse involving children to the appropriate supervisor.

Master’s degree in social work or a related field with a minimum of one-year direct service experience or a Bachelor’s degree in social work or a related field with two years direct service experience. Demonstrated ability to apply sound clinical casework and understand the implications for services to families and youth.

$18 - $23 Hourly