Child Welfare Caseworker Generalist Chaffee County

Fremont Economic Development Corp.; Salida (CO); On-site; USD 42,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Prescription

Dental

Vision

Life

Disability

FSA/HDHP with County contribution

Paid sick leave

Vacation and personal leave

Holidays and birthday holiday

EAP

Retirement plan with county contribute

Wellness program incentives

Job summary

Fremont Economic Development Corp. in Colorado is seeking a Child Welfare Caseworker Generalist to conduct intake and ongoing casework for child abuse, neglect, and youth in conflict matters.

The role will coordinate foster care placements and supervise services, including transport and referrals to ensure delivery of treatment plans. Interactions with legal, medical, and judicial professionals help educate the community about protections and services.

Qualifications

• Intake and ongoing casework for child abuse/neglect and youth in conflict cases.
• Coordination with legal, medical, psychiatric professionals and community resources.

Responsibilities

• Provide intake and ongoing casework for a variety of program areas.
• Recruitment and supervision of foster care homes as needed.
• Arrange and monitor core services, transportation, and referrals.
• Education and communication with stakeholders to prepare treatment plans.

Job description

Job: Child Welfare Caseworker Generalist

The Social Caseworker Generalist provides intake and/or ongoing casework services for a variety of program areas such as child abuse and neglect cases and youth in conflict cases. May also provide for the provision of ancillary services such as recruitment and supervision of foster care homes, placement of clients into foster and day care homes and institutions, emergency on-call availability and response, arrangement for and monitoring of core services, transportation for clients and family to promote successful completion of treatment plans, and information and referral services. This position requires contact with legal, medical, psychiatric/psychological professionals, members of the judicial system, community organizations and resources, foster parents, and other members of the agency for the purpose of developing effective treatment plans for clients and to help clients solve problems, as well as to educate the community about protection of clients and services available.

This is a full-time hourly position with a wage range of $30.57 to $38.22, DOQ.

Benefits include:

• medical
• prescription
• dental
• vision
• life
• disability
• Flexible Spending Account options and HDHP health savings account option with County contribution
• paid sick
• vacation and personal leave
• holidays and “birthday holiday”
• EAP
• retirement plan with county contribution
• wellness program incentives

EOE.

Disclaimer: The duties and responsibilities described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee, time to time; the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.