Child Welfare Services Case Manager 1

Georgia Department of Revenue•Blackshear, GA

About The Position

The Georgia Department of Human Services’ Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS), Child Welfare, is seeking a Child Welfare Services Case Manager 1 in Blackshear, Pierce County, Georgia. Reporting to the Child Welfare Services Supervisor, this position learns under supervision to provide investigative and comprehensive case management for a caseload involving child or adult abuse or neglect. The role includes assessing and addressing safety concerns, supporting families toward positive outcomes, and promoting the safety, permanency, and well-being of children. Employees use a privately owned vehicle for work-related travel, including transporting children, and routinely serve on after-hours on-call duty. Although telework may be temporarily authorized, employees may be called into the office as needed. Applicants must pass the standard agency testing protocol to maintain the position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
Pass the standard agency testing protocol for the position to maintain employment.
Use a privately owned vehicle for work-related travel and duties, including transporting 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 that identify and address safety concerns.
Immediately develop and implement safety plans to address identified safety concerns.
Conduct diligent searches to locate children and families when unable to make contact.
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 the frequency and quality of visits with children and families are adequate 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 established permanency goals.
Make concerted efforts to achieve permanency for children in a timely manner and 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 neighborhoods, communities, faith, extended family, tribe, schools, and friends.
Promote and maintain positive, nurturing relationships between children in care and their biological parents or caretakers, including by encouraging and facilitating activities and interactions beyond visitation.
Document case management activities within policy-established 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.