Case Manager - Foster Care

Wellroot Family Services; North Augusta (GA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellroot Family Services is seeking a Case Manager - Foster Care to join our Georgia program. This full-time position focuses on placing children in foster homes, maintaining placements, and supporting families through casework, outreach, and training.

The role requires organizational skills, trauma-informed practice, and effective communication with birth families, foster parents, and community partners. Evening/weekend hours and driving are expected as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in human services or behavioral sciences.
• Two years’ experience with children and families.
• Own, drive, and maintain a vehicle; mileage reimbursement.
• Evening/weekend hours and after-hours on-call responsibilities.
• Computer literate; word processing and Excel.
• Organized and detail-oriented.
• Strong communication and writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Place children in foster homes and maintain them there.
• Dismissal and follow-up of children leaving foster homes.
• Supervise and train foster parents.
• Provide casework services to birth families and children.
• Engage in community outreach and training.
• Meet deadlines for compliance standards and records.
• Prepare monthly vouchers and RBWO per diems.
• Coordinate service and permanency planning for each family.
• Participate in quarterly quality assurance and monitoring.
• Make monthly visits to foster homes and birth parents.
• Participate in outcome planning and agency reporting data.
• Enter data in state systems and annual report data.
• Follow confidentiality and agency policies.
• Represent the agency in public interactions.

Education

Bachelor's degree in human services

Tools

Excel

Word processing

Job description

Responsibilities

The Case Manager - Foster Care, a full-time position, is employed by and is directly accountable to the Foster Care Supervisor (Tucker) or Program Manager (Gainesville). Position is primarily responsible for the placement of children in foster homes; maintenance of children while in the foster home; dismissal and follow-up of children upon leaving the foster homes; supervision and training of the foster parents; provision of casework services to birth families and/or children in foster homes, community outreach and training. In addition, this worker needs:

• To be a viable team member by investing in all activities and functions of the agency’s services


• To participate in conferences and other training opportunities when requested by the Foster Care Supervisor or Program Manager; and to make use of professional consultation by learning from the experience and knowledge of others


• To operate in an organized manner consistent with reasonable economy and to keep the Foster Care Supervisor or Program Manager aware of the full range and expected needs of clients in order that priorities can be considered


• To meet deadlines on compliance standards for foster youth as well as foster parents' records

• To meet monthly deadlines for preparing financial vouchers for the foster parents as well as RBWO per diems for DHS


• To actively coordinate and participate in service and permanency planning for each family on his/her caseload


• To be involved in the quarterly quality assurance peer monitoring of children's and foster parents' records


• To make the minimum monthly visits to the regular foster homes and to the available birth parents


• To participate in outcome planning for foster care, and the keeping of data to support outcomes


• To enter required data in the state’s GA Score systems, meeting the monthly deadlines


• To enter and annually gather data used for the agency’s annual report


• To understand and practice the use of appropriate confidentiality


• To follow agency personnel and program policy


• To be a positive factor in public relations by representing the agency well in contact with visitors and people from the community


• To be involved in the activities of the agency’s quality assurance program
  
• To perform other duties as delegated by the Foster Care Supervisor or Program Manager


• To participate in educating families on parenting skills/techniques, recruitment and coordinating

Qualifications

Preferred Attributes:

• Understanding of complex trauma and ability to implement strategies to guide families to help children through trauma


• Spirit of collaboration and teamwork that fosters positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders


• Positive, uplifting, and inviting demeanor that opens the door for easy rapport building with families and children


• Alignment and commitment to the agency’s strategic goals and objectives. Extraordinary attention to case level details that incorporate strong case management skills

Requirements

Have a minimum of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in a human service or behavioral science field

• Have a minimum of two years’ experience of working with children and families


• Own, drive, and maintain an automobile in good working condition, receiving a reimbursement for agency business mileage


• Understand that this job will require some evening and weekend hours of employment, and some after-hour on call responsibilities


• Be computer literate, including word processing and excel spread sheets


• Be organized and detailed oriented


• Possess good communication and writing skills