Child Welfare Services Case Manager 1

Family and Children Services, Division of•Augusta, GA

About The Position

The Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS), Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS), Child Welfare, is hiring a Child Welfare Services Case Manager 1 in Augusta, Richmond 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 responding to alleged child maltreatment, assessing and addressing safety concerns, coordinating services and supports, and working with children and families toward safety, permanency, and well-being. The position requires work-related travel using a privately owned vehicle, including transportation of children, and routine after-hours on-call duty. Employees may be called into the office as needed despite temporary telework authorization. The selected candidate may be subject to pre-employment screening and background checks, and 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 in the role.
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 those 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 in accordance 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 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.