Case Planner
About The Position
The Case Planner delivers services to children in care and their families, facilitating permanency goals through casework counseling and coordination of services. The Case Planner represents the agency in court proceedings and ensures that contract mandates are met for their caseload. The role includes regular contact with children in foster homes and biological parents to assess safety, well-being, and progress toward permanency. The Case Planner coordinates visitation and the child’s services, works with parents’ service providers, participates in Family Team Conferences, reassesses permanency plans, and develops concurrent plans. The position also requires maintaining timely case records, completing required reports, and reporting, testifying, and presenting the agency’s position in Family Court proceedings. The position is contracted for 35 hours per week, Monday through Friday, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Some evening and weekend hours may be required. The role is based in an office and includes field visits. The employee must be able to use a computer and office equipment, communicate and write fluently in English, and have a valid driver’s license and an available car for field visits, or be able to use public transportation.
Requirements
- MSW or related degree, or a bachelor’s degree with two years of relevant experience, preferred.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and writing skills.
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
- Ability to use a computer and learn software programs.
- Ability to operate a fax machine, copier, scanner, and other office equipment.
- Valid driver’s license and an available car for field visits, or ability to use public transportation.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including standing, walking, handling objects, reaching, and occasionally balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling; lifting and pushing/pulling demands may also apply.
Nice To Haves
- MSW or related degree, or a bachelor’s degree with two years of relevant experience.
Responsibilities
- Conduct at least one monthly contact with the foster child in the foster home to assess safety, well-being, and progress toward permanency.
- Conduct two monthly face-to-face contacts with biological parents, including one in the parent’s home, to discuss ASFA timeframes and assess safety and progress toward the permanency plan.
- Monitor and coordinate visitation, ensuring at least one two-hour parent-child visit each week unless otherwise directed by the court.
- Reassess visitation plans to ensure they provide the least restrictive option appropriate to the child’s age, development, and case progress.
- Schedule and participate in Family Team Conferences.
- Reassess permanency plans in light of ASFA timeframes and develop a concurrent permanency plan.
- Maintain regular contact with biological parents’ service providers to ensure parents are addressing the reasons for placement.
- Maintain regular contact and coordinate the child’s services, including medical, clinical, and educational services.
- Maintain accurate, contemporaneous CNNX records and enter progress notes within the agency’s 48-hour standard following contact.
- Complete and submit FASPs and Permanency Hearing Reports on time.
- Report, testify, and present the agency’s position regarding families in Family Court proceedings, including Permanency Hearings and TPR.
- Participate in required ACS/Abbott House training, including onboarding, mandated reporter, safety and risk, motivational interviewing, and coaching competency training.
- Perform other necessary activities assigned to further the agency’s mission.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
