Foster Care Case Manager - Detroit and Surrounding Areas

About the role

The Ennis Center for Children is a professional organization founded in 1978 that helps numerous children in Michigan's child welfare system. This position focuses on providing case management, counseling, and placement planning for assigned caseloads.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for children and families with the goal of achieving permanency through reunification, adoption, guardianship, permanent placement with a fit and willing relative, or another planned permanent living arrangement.
• Maintain accurate, professional, and timely completion of all required reports, logs, notes, and other paperwork as per program-specific procedures, contract terms, and applicable local, state, and federal regulations.
• Coordinate or provide timely services and casework needs to assigned Agency consumers, families, and foster families, ensuring compliance with applicable local, state, and federal regulatory and accrediting agencies.
• Monitor and provide necessary services to Agency consumers, families, and foster families, coordinating treatment services with local, state, or federal agencies and community resources.
• Assist with Foster Care responsibilities across all agency offices as needed, including carrying caseloads outside the employee’s designated home office.
• Attend, conduct, or participate in case conferences, hearings, assessments, home visits, and other required meetings.
• Provide 24-hour crisis on-call availability to clients and families on a rotating basis.
• Provide case management of initial placements through the intake process.
• Maintain a flexible work schedule.
• Perform other Agency-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in social work or other related field as required by the State’s licensing guidelines.
• Experience in a child placing agency preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Reliable transportation.
• Satisfactory completion of all employment eligibility and Agency hiring requirements.