Child Welfare Services Case Manager 1

Family and Children Services, Division of•Savannah, GA

About The Position

The Georgia Department of Human Services’ Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS), Child Welfare, is hiring a Child Welfare Services Case Manager 1 in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. Under supervision, the case manager learns to provide investigative and comprehensive case management for a caseload involving child or adult abuse or neglect. The role reports to the Child Welfare Services Supervisor and includes after-hours on-call duty and work-related travel using a privately owned vehicle, including transportation of children. The position requires passing the agency’s standard testing protocol. Employees may temporarily telework, but may be required to report to the office as needed. In an identified emergency, DHS employees may be required to assist with departmental emergency responsibilities. The selected candidate may be subject to pre-employment drug screening, education verification, reference checks, motor vehicle records checks, and criminal background checks.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
Pass the agency’s standard testing protocol for the position.
Use a privately owned vehicle for work-related travel and duties, including transportation of children.
Routinely serve on after-hours on-call duty.

Responsibilities

Initiate timely, face-to-face responses to screened-in reports of alleged child maltreatment and conduct assessments to identify and address safety concerns.
Immediately develop and implement safety plans to address identified safety concerns.
Conduct diligent search efforts to locate children and families when contact cannot be made.
Implement Solution Based Casework (SBC).
Partner with children and parents to develop and use the Family Functioning Agreement, Action Plan, and Family Plan to achieve individual and family-level outcomes.
Complete genograms to identify available family support networks.
Collaborate with community partners to create systems of support for children and families.
Ensure visits with children and families are sufficiently frequent and of adequate quality to support safety, permanency, and well-being.
Identify the physical, educational, and mental or behavioral health needs of children, parents, and foster parents, and ensure identified needs are addressed.
Establish permanency goals for children.
Ensure foster care placements and living situations are stable, in the children’s best interests, and consistent with their permanency goals.
Make concerted efforts to achieve timely permanency consistent with the Adoptions and Safe Families Act.
Ensure siblings in foster care are placed together unless separation is necessary to meet a sibling’s needs.
Maintain children’s connections to their neighborhood, community, faith, extended family, tribe, school, and friends.
Promote and support positive, nurturing relationships between children in care and their biological parents or caretakers, including activities and interactions beyond visitation.
Document case management activities within policy time frames.
Celebrate positive outcomes with children and families.
Use a privately owned vehicle for work-related travel and duties, including transporting children.
Routinely serve on after-hours on-call duty.
Participate in ongoing learning and professional development opportunities.