Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Social Work or related field plus one year of experience in working with children and families. Current Pennsylvania driver's License, car insurance, acceptable State Police and Child Abuse Clearances and FBI clearances are required.
Responsibilities:
Provides basic case management and resource home care services to children, foster/kinship and biological families. Assists families with training and problem solving techniques, and maintains written and verbal communication with referring counties and other child welfare professionals.
- Learns, understands, accepts and implements agency policy, applicable laws and regulations and demonstrates solid understanding of state, county and agency regulations and performance standards.
- Manages work time appropriately on a forty-hour per week schedule, submits itinerary and requests for PTO in accordance with agency policy.
- Is present, on time and prepared for individual and group staffings.
- Provides case management services to children and families in accordance with state, county and agency guidelines.
- Visits assigned resource homes once a month and completes home safety checklists for each resource home.
- Reports areas of non-compliance or safety issues in the Resource home to Supervisory staff and helps develop plan of correction for areas of non-compliance in the Resource home.
- Completes the Resource home re-evaluation annually.
- Coordinates with CUA staff to secure documentation for children's files required by the PA-Department of Human Services.
- Provides CUA and/or County staff with requested documentation form Resource parent files.
- Assists when appropriate with transportation and completes documentation of transports and is knowledgeable of laws pertaining to transporting children safely and in the proper car seat or restraints.
- Schedules, monitors and when needed transports children to state mandated medical and dental appointments.
- Completes required paperwork and forwards reports in accordance with state, county and agency compliance guidelines.
- Assists foster families in meeting agency requirements for training.
- Plans with children, families, birth families and referring agencies in regard to visitation. Monitors and when needed supervises visits to ensure safety and goal achievement.
- Communicates computer and/or other office equipment problems to the Office Supervisor.
- Monitors legal family's progress through monthly contacts, quarterly in home visits, and search efforts.
- Responds to on-call emergencies and completes required documentation, reports Unusual Incidents within 24 hours of occurrence, and completes Unusual Incident reports in accordance with state guidelines.
- Reports placements, discharges, and emergency placement moves.
- Attends all required meetings, conferences, trainings and other agency functions.
- Arrives on time on designated intake day, facilitates placements in conjunction with county staff, and completes all intake and placement paperwork.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
The Case Manager is supervised by the Office Supervisor.
Salary Range:
$30,000-40,000.00 per year