Social Worker; IFSU

General Job Information

The Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) is a cabinet-level agency within the District of Columbia government, committed to the safety, permanence, and well-being of children and families residing in the District of Columbia. Charged with protecting child victims and those at risk of abuse and neglect, CFSA fosters collaborations within its administrations to deliver exceptional family-focused services to the community and its residents.

This position is in the Kinship and Placement Administration (KPA), Office of the Deputy Director for the Office of In-Home and Out-of-Home Care (OIHOHC) of the Child and Family Services Agency. The primary purpose of this position is to provide an array of thorough professional social work services to children and families by identifying and engaging kin, conducting clinical assessments of prospective kinship foster parents to determine their strengths/needs and their appropriateness to provide kinship foster care.

In addition, in this role the social worker will work jointly with other areas to engage and assess children and families in the District of Columbia.

• Provide an array of clinical support to the Office of the Deputy Director for the Office of In-Home and Out-of-Home Care (OIHOHC).
• Consults and partners regularly or as needed, with the Office of the Deputy Director for Hotline and Investigations.
• Supports the case carrying Social Worker and responds to unresolved situations requiring urgent in-home crisis interventions.
• Performs fieldwork to include, but not limited to, visits to group homes, birth parent homes, and resource parent homes.
• Performs counseling and therapy to address social, environmental, emotional, and medical problems.
• Serves as a member of the interdisciplinary team and provides written and oral case presentations regarding the impact of the child, and/or the family’s condition as well as the psycho-social implications.
• Evaluates and identifies the needs and strengths of children and the families as they relate to the overall treatment plan.
• Updates and maintains the database of case files for documentation of case activity to include electronic case management data entry. Maintains statistical data, which reflects an accurate account of the number of clients served and the number and types of activities performed and other relevant data.
• Prepares a variety of reports; attends/represents the CFSA at administrative reviews and other meetings.
• Leads/participate in meetings for the purpose of case planning, sharing information on resources, and joint decision-making. Participates in educational and training activities, professional meetings, conferences, and seminars to keep abreast of the latest changes in the field of social work.
• Being a licensed social worker provides a variety of child welfare casework services to children and families (i.e., conducts home visits to assess the strengths and needs of the families; investigates, assesses, and remediates situations, allegations, and reports; develops and implements case assessments and plans to remediate child abuse and neglect; serves as a member of an interdisciplinary team to provide written and oral case presentations regarding the impact of the child and/or the family’s condition, and the psycho-social implications;
  
  and other related social duties).
• Represents the CFSA at administrative reviews, court hearings, and other meetings, coordinating the implementation of court orders.
• Determines the appropriateness of established goals, services and/or permanency planning based on the status findings.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Professional knowledge of, and ability to apply advanced principles, methods, techniques, and practices of social work in order to conduct training and clinical assessments to prospective kinship foster parents and provide other social work services.
• Thorough knowledge of the child welfare field to provide social work services for individuals and families.
• Thorough knowledge of human behavior dynamics, child development and group dynamics; sensitivity to cultural diversity,…