CWS Case Worker Assistant

Position: CWS Case Worker Assistant / 61061626
Location: Columbia

Job Responsibilities

Do you have a passion to provide meaningful work in the community? Would you like to be part of an organization whose central mission is helping to protect, stabilize and strengthen the lives of children, families, and vulnerable adults? Then the South Carolina Department of Social Services has the right job opportunity for you.

Job Duties:

* The CWS Case Worker Assistant provides services to remedy abuse, neglect, exploitations or self-neglect of adults or children unable to protect themselves. The CWS Case Worker Assistant will assist CWS Case Workers with providing casework services in the area of assessment, family preservation, and foster care.

* Provides or arranges transportation to resources in the community as a part of social service aide plan.

* Participates as a member of a professional team to plan services for clients.

* Makes requests for educational, medical, dental, law enforcement records etc.

* Makes referrals to service providers, family group conferencing, seneca search etc.

* Assists with the completion of Foster Care Review Board packets, IV-E packets, Home Studies and ICPC packets etc.

* Assist with the transportation of children.

* Assists with child and family visitation and teaches appropriate parenting and household management skills.

* Assists with other administrative support functions to include correspondences, copy, fax, email etc.

* Performs other related duties as directed by supervisor. Perform shelter/emergency response duties when needed and as directed.

* Ensures that personal identifying information (PII) is properly used, accessed, gathered, shared and disposed. To protect the agency networks and applications by safeguarding systems, equipment and data.

* Serves as a back-up to the clerical staff when needed; greeting customers at the reception desk as well as over the phone, discerns customers' needs and routes them to designated program/caseworker, receives and transfers calls to the desired extensions, receives clients applying for FI and SNAP benefits, explains services and registers applications, assigns caseworkers and scans registered applications or additional documents in SCOSA.

Minimum and Additional Requirements

A High School Diploma and one (1) year of child welfare relevant program experience.

An Associate Degree may be substituted for the required related experience.

Additional Comments

This application for employment with the SC Department of Social Services must be completed in its entirety. A resume may be included; but shall not be substituted in lieu of the completion of this application in part or in whole. "See Resume" is not acceptable information for the completion of any part of the requirements of this application. If such is submitted, this employment application will be considered incomplete and may not be forwarded as eligible for consideration to hiring managers.

Must possess a valid driver's license and have access to and be able to operate a motor vehicle. Individuals must comply with necessary field work assignments.

If you certify, by completion and submission of this application, that you possess educational credentials that qualify you for the available DSS positions, you will be required to provide a certified official transcript, if you are selected for job offer.

The South Carolina Department of Social Services offers an exceptional benefits package that includes:

* Health, Dental, Vision, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and Children

* 15 days annual (vacation) leave per year

* 15 days sick leave per year

* 13 paid holidays

* Paid Parental Leave

* State Retirement Plan and Deferred Compensation Programs

DIVISION:
Child Welfare Services / Hampton County