Social Worker

The National Center for Children and Families • Full-time • Greenbelt, MD 20770 • 2h ago

**$3,000 Sign-On Bonus!**

**MSW, LMSW and LGSW required for both Maryland and DC - may start with one license and obtain the other.**

Position Purpose:

The Social Worker for the Innovative Family Connections Program is responsible for the coordination of services and care for children in foster care and their families involved in the District of Columbia child welfare system. The Social Worker monitors and ensures the safety and overall well-being of clients and families served, makes both formal and informal assessments of clients served in order to develop a permanency plan to ensure timely permanency is achieved.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

· Provides bi-monthly visits to children residing in foster homes or birth family homes and additional visits as needed to ensure the safety and well-being of youth on their caseload.

· Ensures that children’s physical, medical, educational and therapeutic service needs are appropriately met.

· Ensures that each child has an appropriate permanency plan and that every team member is working together to reach the permanency goal.

· Conducts family assessments in order to develop individual/family case plans and treatment plans based on the needs of the child and family.

· Writes court reports and makes verbal presentations in court.

· Ensures that all court orders are met.

· Ensures appropriate referrals are made for the youth and birth family regarding mental health, medical, educational and placement stability.

· Ensures that the birth families’ needs are being met and that the children are visiting when appropriate.

· Ensures that all documentation in FACES is accurate and timely.

· Facilitate team meetings quarterly in conjunction with biological family, foster parents, services providers, legal team and child in order to develop and update individualized treatment plans and quarterly staffing plans for all youth on caseload.

· Assists foster parents with in-home implementation of individualized treatment plans and provide crisis intervention services as needed.

· Through regular home visits, ensures that all contracted services are being provided according to treatment/case plan in collaboration with the foster parent.

· Maintains regular communication with interdisciplinary team members and provides updates on progress of the case.

· Completes appropriate documentation and ensures that case records are complete and in compliance with COMAR Regulations.

· Includes evening hours as necessary to conduct home visits.

· Completes a minimum of 30 in service training hours annually in order to stay in compliance with DC regulations and stay current with Child Welfare practice.

Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

· Other duties as may be assigned

Minimum Position Requirements:

· MSW, LMSW and LGSW required for both DC and Maryland

· Comprehensive working knowledge in the areas of child or adolescent therapy, treatment planning, behavior management, and human growth and development.

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required y this job require close vision working with a computer monitor. While performing the duties of this job, employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. While performing the responsibilities of the employee’s job, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the employee will encounter. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $72,800.00 - $76,500.00 per year

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