Social Worker III - Foster Care & Adoptions

Foster Care Specialist

Paid Health Insurance for employees | Dental |Longevity Pay | 401-K | Life Insurance Vacation/Sick Leave | 12 Paid Holidays | Flex Care |Travel Reimbursement

If you enjoy working in partnership with families to provide children with a safe and nurturing environment, this is the opportunity you have been looking for!

This position involves recruiting, training, and licensing prospective foster parents along with retaining current foster parents. Another key responsibility is assisting foster families with day-to-day issues related to the children in their homes. This position also works to provide a permanent home for children in legal custody for the agency. This includes working with the child and the biological family to return the child home, place the child with relatives, legally clear the child for agency adoption, or providing preparation for independent living.

If you have the following abilities you can be successful in this job:

• Able and willing to recruit prospective foster families within Wilson County
• Able to advocate for families and children
• Able to establish trusting interpersonal relationships, and to collaborate with community partners
• Able to think analytically and make timely and accurate decisions
• Able to properly document within proper time frames, the forms, reports, electronic records, dictation and court summaries necessary in the total delivery of the job.
• Must be able to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills; identify and diffuse difficult situations to reduce tension and conflict
• Able to become knowledgeable about all aspects of the foster care and adoption program
• Able to perform the duties and responsibilities of the job within the judicial system
• Must have verbal and written communication skills in order to relate in a positive manner to clients, attorneys, and community partners and provide accurate court testimony when required.
• Must have ability to thoroughly and objectively gather information; must have capacity to remain calm in stressful situations.
• Must be able to work effectively in a teamwork setting and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with team members, within the Child Welfare Section, with community professionals, and agency leaders.
• Must be able to learn and implement the agency's integrated practice model of Signs of Safety and Trauma Informed practice.
• Must be able to learn the Division's electronic management system for Child Welfare, Path NC.
• Must have a valid driver's license and dependable transportation.
• Must possess and be able to demonstrate intermediate level of personal computer skills.

Master's degree in social work from an accredited school of social work;
Bachelor's degree in social work from an accredited school of social work and completion of the Child Welfare Collaborative (Child Welfare positions only);
Bachelor's degree in social work from an accredited school of social work and one year directly related experience;
Master's degree in a human services field and one year of directly related experience;
Bachelor's degree in a human services field from an accredited college or university and two years directly related experience;
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and three years of directly related experience.

Preferences:
Prefer applicants with social work experience in a Department of Social Services and Human Services Degree; or social work experience in a human services setting and a Human Service Degree; BSW or MSW Degrees; or a Human Services Related Masters Level Degree. Only those applicants meeting the specific requirements above will be considered for an interview.

Application Process:

Applicants must complete and submit a Wilson County application by the closing date. A resume may be attached but is not a substitute. Incomplete or unsigned applications will not be processed.