Child Welfare Services Case Manager 1

Georgia Department of Revenue•Cordele, TX

11d•Hybrid

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 Cordele, Crisp County, Georgia. Reporting to the Child Welfare Services Supervisor, the position learns, under supervision, to provide investigative and comprehensive case management for a caseload involving child or adult abuse or neglect. The role addresses safety, permanency, and well-being needs of children and families, and includes work-related travel using a privately owned vehicle, including transportation of children. The position routinely serves on after-hours on-call duty. Employees may be required to report to the office when needed, even though temporary telework may be authorized. Applicants must pass the agency’s standard 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 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 effective 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 child’s best interests, and consistent with 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 by encouraging and facilitating 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.