Case Manager - Foster Care

Hoyleton Youth and Family Services•Hoyleton, IL

1d•$52,416 - $65,520

About The Position

The Case Manager delivers clinical and case management services to foster care clients, their families, foster parents, and adoptive parents. The role develops and implements permanency goals and evaluates outcomes in the client’s best clinical interest, including subsidized guardianship, adoption, or reunification with the child’s biological family. The position monitors foster child placements, develops and implements service plans, coordinates services and visitation, reviews service-provider progress reports, and maintains compliance with DCFS policies and requirements. The Case Manager participates in case-related meetings, reviews, and court hearings; maintains case records; arranges transportation when needed; completes required training; and provides after-hours emergency coverage as assigned. Hoyleton uses the CARE (Children and Residential Experience) framework to guide its culture and practice. CARE is grounded in six principles: Developmentally Focused, Family Involved, Relationship Based, Ecologically Oriented, Competence Centered, and Trauma Informed. CARE and TCI training must be completed upon hire, and employees are expected to apply these principles in their work. TCI employees must pass an annual written test and, when applicable to their role, a physical test every six months.

Requirements

Ability to understand separation and loss, the effects of trauma on children in care, and a child’s right to belong to a family.
Specialized knowledge, skills, and experience to help parents improve parenting capacities, maintain ties with their children, and develop and implement a stable, permanent plan for their future.
Ability to provide services in a manner that appreciates each child’s cultural background, heritage, and identity.
Good oral and written communication skills.
Valid driver’s license in good standing and proof of insurance.
Master’s degree from an accredited program in social work or another human services field preferred; alternatively, a bachelor’s degree in social work or a related human service field with supervision by a master’s degree professional in social work or a related human service field and at least two years of experience providing foster care or other out-of-home care.
Licensure by DCFS or eligibility for licensure.
Completion of CARE and TCI training upon hire.
Ability to pass the TCI written test annually and, if applicable to the role, the physical test every six months.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree from an accredited program in social work or another human services field.

Responsibilities

Deliver clinical and case management services to foster children, foster families, and biological parents.
Monitor foster children’s placements through home visits monthly or according to the service plan or DCFS contract, and respond to urgent issues as needed.
Develop service plans to help children and families achieve permanency, implement the plans, and evaluate progress in accordance with DCFS rules and procedures.
Arrange services for birth parents in accordance with service plans; assure parent-child and, when required, sibling visitation; and receive and review progress reports concerning counseling and other services.
Maintain familiarity with DCFS policies and procedures applicable to the foster care program and assure compliance.
Prepare for and participate in at least quarterly Child and Family Team meetings, Administrative Case Reviews, clinical staffings, IEP and other educational reviews, and supervisory reviews; provide current information about case progress.
Prepare for and attend court hearings on assigned cases.
Complete and maintain case records in accordance with DCFS requirements, including documentation of face-to-face, phone, and collateral contacts.
Arrange for or provide needed transportation for foster children to parent-child visitation or other services.
Attend training opportunities required by DCFS or recommended by the Foster Care Supervisor.
Provide after-hours emergency coverage as assigned.
Complete CARE and TCI training upon hire and apply their principles in job performance.
Pass the TCI written test annually and, if applicable to the role, the physical test every six months.