Youth Case Manager

About the role

EmberHope, a leading, faith-based provider of child welfare services, is committed to helping you succeed as an employee while you work to make a difference in the life of a child—either directly or by offering administrative support. The company strives for a positive work environment that encourages effective teamwork, trauma-informed practices, and opportunities to utilize leadership skills. Team members from all departments focus on carrying out the EmberHope mission, vision, and values.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a trauma-informed focus on creating a safe and supportive environment for staff and those served through knowledge, sensitivity, respect, and a focus on resilience and recovery.
• Work as part of a team to access resources, plan, and advocate to improve the quality of people’s lives.
• Teach skills such as emotion regulation, healthy relationships, conflict resolution, and healthy communication within families.
• Facilitate timely permanency through engagement with the family consistent with the practice framework.
• Engage the family in a meaningful relationship and utilize assessment and case planning to guide services.
• Help the family navigate the difficult terrain of the child welfare system while ensuring safety needs are assessed and addressed.
• Visit with children and families one-on-one at least monthly to support progress toward permanency.
• Identify and remove barriers to timely reunification.
• Utilize assessments to build the family case plan and make placement referrals.
• Attend court hearings and submit timely court reports.
• Achieve timely reunification within 12 months for all referred cases. For those cases unable to reunify, support and achieve timely permanency preferably through either adoption or guardianship.
• Document all work and submit 100% of documentation per company policy.
• Work collaboratively with case management team members, stakeholders, and the Department of Children and Families (DCF).
• Follow Company Policy and Procedure and operate according to the Company’s Program Practice Guidelines.
• Back up on-call to the on-call department.

How You Will Spend Your Time

• 40% Case Management
• 20% Collaboration & Meetings
• 20% Assessments & Reports
• 20% Documentation

Additional Information

• Relocation expenses: Not covered
• Management responsibilities: None
• Work arrangement: Hybrid