Lead Social Caseworker – Children, Youth Family Services

** To be considered, applicants must upload their unofficial transcripts with their completed application.**

Join El Paso County Children, Youth, & Family Services as a Lead Social Caseworker, where you’ll play a critical role in supporting children and families while also mentoring and guiding team members. This position blends leadership with hands-on casework, requiring strong organization, documentation, and time management skills. You’ll manage your own caseload while providing coaching, training, and support to staff, all within a collaborative child welfare environment.

The work is dynamic and meaningful, involving in-office collaboration, home visits, court appearances, and occasional travel. If you're driven to make a lasting impact and thrive in a role that balances leadership with direct service, this is an opportunity to do both.

• A community-centered, family-based, and collaborative approach to providing support, services and treatment for adolescents (12 + years) and their families.

• Intake Caseworkers are responsible for receiving & responding to reports of suspected child abuse/neglect in order to gain a greater understanding about the family's strengths, needs, and resources so that children can be safe, and the risk of maltreatment can be reduced.

• Ongoing casework is partnering with children and families throughout the span of involvement/intervention to address treatment needs through a focus on safety, wellbeing, and permanency.

• Connecting developmentally appropriate services, support, and treatment in close partnership with The Resource Exchange to serve Intellectually, Developmentally, Disabled children, youth, and families.

• 0-3 Intake Caseworkers are responsible for receiving & responding to reports of suspected child abuse/neglect in order to gain a greater understanding about the family's strengths, needs, and resources so that children can be safe, and the risk of maltreatment can be reduced, while partnering with Peak Vista Nurse Practitioners to support specific needs of ages zero to 3 years.

Hiring Range: $64,800.00 - $68,800.00 annually

Anticipated Hiring Rate: $67,548.00 annually

This is a child protection position; child protection includes engaging families. It is reasonable to anticipate the need for flexibility in work hours periodically to accommodate client schedules. The average workday hours are Monday-Friday 8:00am
-5:00pm. Schedule is subject to change. Hybrid schedule may be available upon successful completion of the initial evaluation period; subject to change.

Due to the sensitive nature of this role, additional background checks may be required, including a Government Program Fraud check, Child Welfare Abuse & Neglect database (TRAILS) check, and Child Welfare Caseworker Falsification check.

Please be advised this position may close without advance notice, should we receive a sufficient number of qualified applications.

Duties are performed in an office environment, client's homes, schools, jails, and court; must be able to climb stairs in or outside of these environments and able to walk up and down driveways and sidewalks. This position may require occasional lifting, such as files, supplies, children, and car seats. Hybrid remote work environment dependent upon Department discretion and business needs. May be exposed to hostile family situations/individuals, and unsanitary and hazardous conditions.

Reliable transportation is required as you will be utilizing your own registered and insured personal vehicle to transport clients as needed; mileage reimbursement is available upon request. This position may require a…