Protective Services Caseworker

Liberty Healthcare • Indiana, PA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Liberty Healthcare and the Pennsylvania Adult Protective Services Program are hiring a full-time Protective Services Caseworker to help detect, prevent, reduce, and eliminate abuse, neglect, exploitation, and abandonment of adults living with disabilities. This field-based role involves travel throughout Indiana County and surrounding counties, conducting investigations in residences, interviewing individuals, gathering information, identifying and reducing risks, documenting findings, writing reports, developing service plans, coordinating services, and managing cases through closure. The position offers a high degree of autonomy and some schedule flexibility, with occasional evening work. New hires receive formal adult protective services training. The role provides experience that can build a résumé, and dedicated top performers may have opportunities for advancement and promotion into leadership roles. The program is a collaborative partnership between the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services and Liberty Healthcare Corporation, a Pennsylvania-based organization recognized nationally for supporting people living with disabilities.

Requirements

• Be able to navigate emotionally challenging situations while exercising compassion and resilience.
• Have an insured vehicle for required regional travel.

Nice To Haves

• A bachelor's degree in social work, criminal justice, or a human service field is preferred but not required.
• Experience in service coordinator, supports coordinator, program specialist, or case manager roles; child, family, and youth services or older adult protective services; behavioral or mental health or developmental disabilities services; law enforcement such as police, parole, or probation; or field-based healthcare or human services roles.

Responsibilities

• Travel throughout Indiana County and surrounding counties.
• Conduct investigations in residences.
• Interview individuals and gather information.
• Identify, mitigate, and eliminate areas of risk to individuals.
• Document findings and write reports.
• Develop service plans, coordinate services, and manage cases to closure.

Benefits

• $48,000 per year, paid at $23.08 per hour.
• Opportunities to supplement income through overtime.
• 30 days of paid time off annually for holidays, vacation, sick, and personal leave.
• Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Mileage reimbursement for approved work-related travel.
• Formal adult protective services training.
• Potential advancement and consideration for promotion into leadership roles for dedicated top performers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed