Child Welfare Caseworker

Job Purpose :

Protects and develops children by identifying children's needs; providing growth environments; arranging for services.

Duties :

• Identifies children's needs by investigating complaints and referrals; examining home conditions and social environment; evaluating psychological well-being; arranging for physical examinations.
• Meets children's needs by identifying and arranging for services; coaching parents and caregivers.
• Provides foster care families by evaluating foster parents, social environment, and living conditions; monitoring children's care and development; coaching foster parents and siblings; terminating contract with foster parents.
• Provides adoptive families by evaluating adoptive parents, social environment, and living conditions; coaching adoptive parents and siblings; recommending or advising against adoption.
• Prepares for children's birth by coaching unmarried parents; arranging for medical and counseling services.
• Documents actions by completing records.
• Avoids legal challenges by complying with legal requirements.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks.
• Enhances social services and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Skills / Qualifications :

Connecting with Children, Handles Pressure, Objectivity, Confidentiality, Persistence, Proactive, Listening, Verbal Communication, Administrative Writing Skills, Client Relationships, Legal Compliance