Case Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• Must pass the standard agency testing protocol for the position to maintain the position.
• Reliable transportation, proof of auto insurance, a valid state-issued driver’s license, and an acceptable driving history record.
• Ability to use a privately owned vehicle for work-related travel and duties, including transportation of children.

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 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 visits with children and families occur with adequate frequency and 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 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 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.

Benefits

• Unique training opportunities
• Employee retirement plan, including 401(k) and 457 plans
• 13 paid holidays
• Vacation leave
• Sick leave
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long- and short-term care
• Life insurance
• Employee discount programs
• Telework opportunities depending upon the position