Caseworker II

COUNTY OF LEHIGH PENNSYLVANIA; Allentown (AZ); On-site; USD 40,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

County of Lehigh Pennsylvania is seeking a County Caseworker 1 to provide professional social services and case management for children, youth and families. The role involves assessing family needs, developing service plans, and linking clients to community resources to improve safety and well-being.

The position requires a Bachelor's Degree and civil service eligibility, with a schedule of standard county hours.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide case management services to children, youth and families to ensure health and safety of each child.
• Assess presenting problems, strengths and needs of families.
• Assist families in developing and using their own potential for resolving social, health, emotional and economic problems.
• Develop written service plans for each family member with input from the family.
• Link families to services to meet plan requirements through prompt authorization and referral.
• Prepare social studies, case summaries, reports, and correspondence; provide testimony in court under supervision.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

General Protective Services Unit:

• This is professional social services work. Employees in this class provide case management services to children, youth and families to ensure the health and safety of each child in the family and to assist the family in attaining a more satisfactory social, economic, emotional or physical adjustment.
• Employees perform a variety of social services and case management duties designed to provide supportive services to children, youth and families including:
  • Assessing presenting problems, strengths and needs of families.
  • Assisting families in developing and using their own potential for more adequately resolving their social, health, emotional and economic problems.
  • Providing social services, such as home and budget management, housing, child care and parenting skills, employment, and when necessary placement of children in foster or adoptive homes, residential facilities or institutions.
  • Scheduling and conducting interviews and follow-up visits to provide service and counseling.
  • Preparing social studies, case summaries, reports, and correspondence. Preparing documents and providing testimony in court under supervision. Making referrals to other public and private social service organizations and community
  • agencies and resources to meet the child's needs and assisting children, youth and their families in understanding and utilizing these resources.
  • Developing a specific written service plan for each family member with input from the family whenever possible.
  • Linking the family to services to meet service plan requirements through the process of prompt authorization and referral.
• Employees attend and participate in case reviews and supervisory conferences and are exposed to a variety of learning experiences, including on-the-job training programs, designed to develop professional and technical skills.
• Employees participate in formal and informal county agency and state training programs which provide basic knowledge relative to agency purpose, services provided, client population characteristic, and applicable laws, methods, procedures, rules and regulations governing the operation of the agency necessary to perform social service and case management supportive services to children, youth and families.
• Work is performed under the supervision of a professional social service or administrative supervisor and is reviewed through individual and group conferences, assignment of professional reading, attendance at training programs, and the reading of records and reports.
• Employees learn about the network of available community resources by reviewing resource files, making site visits, and working with casework staff.
• Employees receive instruction regarding the reason for and proper completion of applicable forms and paperwork.
• Employees document activities and services using designated agency methods and procedures, including social service summaries, correspondence and reports.
• Employees are assigned after-hours on-call on a rotating basis.
• Employees perform related work as required.
• Any other duties as assigned by the employee's immediate supervisor, Director and/or his/her designee.

Child Protective Services Unit:

• This is professional social services work. Employees in this class provide case management services to children, youth and families to ensure the health and safety of each child in the family and to assist the family in attaining a more satisfactory social, economic, emotional or physical adjustment.
• Employees perform a variety of social services and case management duties designed to provide supportive services to children, youth and families including:
  • Assessing presenting problems, strengths and needs of families.
  • Assisting families in developing and using their own potential for more adequately resolving their social, health, emotional and economic problems.
  • Providing social services, such as home and budget management, housing, child care and parenting skills, employment, and when necessary placement of children in foster or adoptive homes, residential facilities or institutions.
  • Scheduling and conducting interviews and follow-up visits to provide service and counseling.
  • Preparing social studies, case summaries, reports, and correspondence. Preparing documents and providing testimony in court under supervision. Making referrals to other public and private social service organizations and community
  • agencies and resources to meet the child's needs and assisting children, youth and their families in understanding and utilizing these resources.
  • Developing a specific written service plan for each family member with input from the family whenever possible.
  • Linking the family to services to meet service plan requirements through the process of prompt authorization and referral.
• Employees attend and participate in case reviews and supervisory conferences and are exposed to a variety of learning experiences, including on-the-job training programs, designed to develop professional and technical skills.
• Employees participate in formal and informal county agency and state training programs which provide basic knowledge relative to agency purpose, services provided, client population characteristic, and applicable laws, methods, procedures, rules and regulations governing the operation of the agency necessary to perform social service and case management supportive services to children, youth and families.
• Work is performed under the supervision of a professional social service or administrative supervisor and is reviewed through individual and group conferences, assignment of professional reading, attendance at training programs, and the reading of records and reports.
• Employees learn about the network of available community resources by reviewing resource files, making site visits, and working with casework staff.
• Employees receive instruction regarding the reason for and proper completion of applicable forms and paperwork.
• Employees document activities and services using designated agency methods and procedures, including social service summaries, correspondence and reports.
• Any other duties as assigned by the employee's immediate supervisor, Director and/or his/her designee.

Child Protective Services Investigations:

• This is professional social services work. Employees in this class provide case management services to children, youth and families to ensure the health and safety of each child in the family and to assist the family in attaining a more satisfactory social, economic, emotional or physical adjustment.
• Employees perform a variety of social services and case management duties designed to provide supportive services to children, youth and families including:
  • Assessing presenting problems, strengths and needs of families.
  • Assisting families in developing and using their own potential for more adequately resolving their social, health, emotional and economic problems.
  • Providing social services, such as home and budget management, housing, child care and parenting skills, employment, and when necessary placement of children in foster or adoptive homes, residential facilities or institutions.
  • Scheduling and conducting interviews and follow-up visits to provide service and counseling.
  • Preparing social studies, case summaries, reports, and correspondence. Preparing documents and providing testimony in court under supervision. Making referrals to other public and private social service organizations and community
  • agencies and resources to meet the child's needs and assisting children, youth and their families in understanding and utilizing these resources.
  • Developing a specific written service plan for each family member with input from the family whenever possible.
  • Linking the family to services to meet service plan requirements through the process of prompt authorization and referral.
• Employees attend and participate in case reviews and supervisory conferences and are exposed to a variety of learning experiences, including on-the-job training programs, designed to develop professional and technical skills.
• Employees participate in formal and informal county agency and state training programs which provide basic knowledge relative to agency purpose, services provided, client population characteristic, and applicable laws, methods, procedures, rules and regulations governing the operation of the agency necessary to perform social service and case management supportive services to children, youth and families.
• Work is performed under the supervision of a professional social service or administrative supervisor and is reviewed through individual and group conferences, assignment of professional reading, attendance at training programs, and the reading of records and reports.
• Employees learn about the network of available community resources by reviewing resource files, making site visits, and working with casework staff.
• Employees receive instruction regarding the reason for and proper completion of applicable forms and paperwork.
• Employees document activities and services using designated agency methods and procedures, including social service summaries, correspondence and reports.
• Employees in Child Protective Services (CPS) Investigations/ICU units have CPS specific job functions including, but not limited to:
  • Conducting child abuse investigations and the required paperwork within 60 days in accordance with all the CPSL regulations.
  • Attending, participating in and presenting cases (when required) at the Child Advocacy Center Case Conferences.
  • Conducting minimal facts interviews of juveniles in a manner as not to taint the investigation.
  • Conducting perpetrator interviews of suspected juvenile and adult offenders.
  • Attending trainings specific to physical abuse, sexual abuse and interviewing techniques, as recommended by the supervisor or administrator.
• Working in collaboration with other members of the multi-disciplinary investigation team. Employees are assigned after-hours on-call on a rotating basis. Employees perform related work as required.

Adoption Unit:

• This is professional social services work. Employees in this class provide case management services to children, youth and families to ensure the health and safety of each child,
• family and to assist the family in attaining a more satisfactory social, economic, emotional or physical adjustment.
• Employees perform a variety of social services and case management duties designed to provide supportive services to children, youth and families including:
  • Assessing presenting problems, strengths and needs of families.
  • Assisting families in developing and using their own potential for more adequately resolving their social, health, emotional and economic problems.
  • Providing social services, such as home and budget management, housing, child care and parenting skills, employment, and when necessary placement of children in foster or adoptive homes, residential facilities or institutions.
  • Scheduling and conducting interviews and follow-up visits to provide service and counseling.
  • Preparing social studies, case summaries, reports, and correspondence. Preparing documents and providing testimony in court under supervision. Making referrals to other public and private social service organizations and community
  • agencies and resources to meet the child's needs and assisting children, youth and their families in understanding and utilizing these resources.
  • Developing a specific written service plan for each family member with input from the family whenever possible.
  • Linking the family to services to meet service plan requirements through the process of prompt authorization and referral.
• Employees attend and participate in case reviews and supervisory conferences and are exposed to a variety of learning experiences, including on-the-job training programs, designed to develop professional and technical skills.
• Employees participate in formal and informal county agency and state training programs which provide basic knowledge relative to agency purpose, services provided, client population characteristic, and applicable laws, methods, procedures, rules and regulations governing the operation of the agency necessary to perform social service and case management supportive services to children, youth and families.
• Work is performed under the supervision of a professional social service or administrative supervisor and is reviewed through individual and group conferences, assignment of professional reading, attendance at training programs, and the reading of records and reports.
• Employees learn about the network of available community resources by reviewing resource files, making site visits, and working with casework staff.
• Employees receive instruction regarding the reason for and proper completion of applicable forms and paperwork.
• Employees document activities and services using designated agency methods and procedures, including social service summaries, correspondence and reports.
• Employees are assigned after-hours on-call on a rotating basis. Employees perform related work as required.
• Any other duties as assigned by the employee's immediate supervisor, Director and/or his/her designee.

Intake & Assessment Unit:

• This is professional social services work. Employees in this class provide case management services to children, youth and families to ensure the health and safety of each child in the family and to assist the family in attaining a more satisfactory social, economic, emotional or physical adjustment.
• Employees perform a variety of social services and case management duties designed to provide supportive services to children, youth and families including:
• Assessing presenting problems, strengths and needs of families.
• Assisting families in developing and using their own potential for more adequately resolving their social, health, emotional and economic problems.
  • Providing social services, such as home and budget management, housing, child care and parenting skills, employment, and when necessary, placement of children in foster or adoptive homes, residential facilities or institutions.
  • Scheduling and conducting interviews and follow-up visits to provide service and counseling.
  • Preparing social studies, case summaries, reports, and correspondence. Preparing documents and providing testimony in court under supervision. Making referrals to other public and private social service organizations and community
  • agencies and resources to meet the child's needs and assisting children, youth and their families in understanding and utilizing these resources.
  • Developing a specific written service plan for each family member with input from the family whenever possible.
  • Linking the family to services to meet service plan requirements through the process of prompt authorization and referral.
• Employees attend and participate in case reviews and supervisory conferences and are exposed to a variety of learning experiences, including on-the-job training programs, designed to develop professional and technical skills.
• Employees participate in formal and informal county agency and state training programs which provide basic knowledge relative to agency purpose, services provided, client population characteristic, and applicable laws, methods, procedures, rules and regulations governing the operation of the agency necessary to perform social service and case management supportive services to children, youth and families.
• Work is performed under the supervision of a professional social service or administrative supervisor and is reviewed through individual and group conferences, assignment of professional reading, attendance at training programs, and the reading of records and reports.
• Employees learn about the network of available community resources by reviewing resource files, making site visits, and working with casework staff.
• Employees receive instruction regarding the reason for and proper completion of applicable forms and paperwork.
• Employees document activities and services using designated agency methods and procedures, including social service summaries, correspondence and reports.
• Employees are assigned after-hours on-call on a rotating basis. Employees perform related work as required.
• Any other duties as assigned by the employee's immediate supervisor, Director and/or his/her designee.

Schedule:

• 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM or 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM.

Experience:

• One year of experience as County Caseworker 1; or one year of experience in public or private social work; or any equivalent combination of experience and training including successful completion of 12 semester hours of college level courses in sociology, social welfare, psychology, gerontology, or other related social services.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree

Comments:

• Must be civil service certified.
• Must obtain clearances upon job offer - PA State Police, FBI, and Child Abuse.
• Interested applicants must submit a completed County application, resume and cover letter for consideration. Applicants can check the status of this posting via the County's Website at Job Posting Status to learn if the position is open, pending, or has been closed. The appointing Authority will directly contact those applicants they are interested in as potential candidates for this position.
• All applicants must be on a promotion or employment list for the job title, which means that in order to apply, applicants must have already taken and passed the civil service test for this position; or have permanent civil service status. Civil service testing is available at CareerLink in Allentown (610-437-5627).