Foster Care Caseworker

About the role

The Foster Care Caseworker will work closely with the Foster Care Department, contracting County Department of Social Services, and family members to successfully carry out the Foster Care Caseworker portion of contract requirements.

Responsibilities

• Assist and support foster youth while in our program with any services to ensure their safety, well-being, educational, medical/mental health, and family needs are taken care of.
• Provides services and support to the birth families of the youth in the program to assist with the permanency goal.
• Affirms that job-related activities are following Glove House policies and procedures, OCFS, State and Federal regulations, and relevant professional association, ethical standards, accreditation standards, and the law.
• Perform Foster Care Case Management as defined by the County Contracts. This includes treatment planning, monthly contact with schools/therapists/county CW, engaging biological families, permanency planning, independent living skills, family and sibling visitation and face to face contacts.
• Provide or arrange transportation of youth to appointments and visitation as needed.
• Participate as a team member of the Foster Care Department and may be asked to help facilitate recruitment efforts, and area presentations.
• Provides support and feedback to discharge resources surrounding their strengths and needs to have their children returned to them. Including monitoring of their required court order stipulations and initiating discussions surrounding barriers of permanency.
• Completes monthly home-visits of discharge resources
• Provide supportive casework counseling services for foster parents, including education and crisis management.
• Provide case management services including referrals, connections, and links where appropriate.
• Train direct care team members regarding components of the foster care management contract.
• Participate in foster youth treatment team meetings.
• Generate and maintain necessary reports and paperwork (i.e., Quality Assurance and program reports).
• Affirms all documentation of contacts and situations are completed in a timely fashion in myEvolve and CONNECTIONS.
• Utilize the agency EMR, myEvolv, in entirety to accurately represent the youth’s record.

Qualifications

• All degrees must be from an accredited university.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum 3+ years’ experience working with children and families in residential, group, or counseling child welfare capacity.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.