Foster Care Caseworker

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : $53,000 / year

Join us! Help make a difference in the world of Foster Care. We need caring, attentive, passionate individuals to join our team.

QUALIFICATIONS :

BA in Human Services with two years of human services experience. A passing grade on required licensing exams. Computer knowledge including proficient knowledge of Microsoft office (word, excel and access), plus keyboarding. Sensitivity and responsiveness to the cultural differences of individuals and families in groups outside one's own.

CLASSIFICATION : Exempt Full-time

REPORTS TO : Foster Care Supervisor

Summary :

Carries a caseload of children in placement and follows a service plan

Duties for Direct Services

With Child in Placement :

• Maintain ongoing contact with child as determined by service plan.
• Assess child's needs (emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual, cultural), in placement, community and with his / her natural family.
• Ensure child's needs are met through YSB programs or linkage with outside agencies.
• Monitor child's performance, progress and adaptation in placement, with natural family and in the community.
• Attend all court and administrative reviews pertaining to child.
• Coordinate and monitor any services provided through YSB or outside the agency for the child.
• With natural family of child.
• Maintain ongoing contact with the natural family as determined by service plan.
• Promote the permanency goal noted in the child's service plan.
• Perform family assessments according to agency and DCFS requirements.
• Monitor family's progress toward service plan goals.
• Link, monitor and coordinate services required by family which are provided through YSB or outside the agency.
• Ensure family visits are provided as directed by service plan.
• Provide aftercare services upon return of child to natural family home when required.

With Placement Family (foster or relative) :