Public Service Child Welfare Case Manager

Georgia Department of Revenue; Athens (GA); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training opportunities

401(k) plan

457 plan

13 paid holidays

Vacation & sick leave

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Long/short-term care

Life insurance

Employee discounts

Telework opportunities

Job summary

The Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services, seeks a Child Welfare Services Case Manager 1 in Athens, Clarke County. The role supports stronger families by assessing safety needs and coordinating services for vulnerable children and families.

You will conduct face-to-face responses to screened reports, implement safety plans, and collaborate with community partners to ensure permanency and well-being.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Applicants must pass the standard agency testing protocol.
• Must have reliable transportation, proof of auto insurance, a valid state-issued driver's license, and an acceptable driving history record.

Responsibilities

• Initiates timely, face-to-face responses to screened-in reports of alleged child maltreatment and conducts assessments that identify and address safety concerns.
• Addresses identified safety concerns by immediately developing and implementing safety plans.
• Conducts diligent search efforts to locate the child/family when unable to make contact.
• Implements Solution Based Casework (SBC).
• Partners with children and parents in the development and utilization of the Family Functioning Agreement, Action Plan, and Family Plan to achieve desired individual and family-level outcomes.
• Completes genograms to identify available family support network.
• Collaborate with community partners to create systems of support for children and families.
• Ensures that frequency and quality of visits with children and families are adequate to ensure safety, permanency, and well-being.
• Identifies the physical, educational, and mental/behavioral health needs of children, parents, and foster parents and ensures identified needs are effectively addressed.
• Establishes permanency goals for the child(ren).
• Ensures foster care placements and/or living situations are stable and in the best interests of the child(ren) and are consistent with achieving established permanency goal(s).
• Makes concerted efforts to achieve permanency for children in a timely manner and consistent with regulations contained in the Adoptions and Safe Families Act.
• Ensures that siblings in foster care are placed together unless a separation is necessary to meet the needs of one of the siblings.
• Maintains child’s connections to his or her neighborhood, community, faith, extended family, tribe, school, and friends.
• Promotes, supports, and otherwise maintains a positive and nurturing relationship between the child(ren) in care and their biological parents/caretakers by encouraging and facilitating activities and interactions beyond visitation.
• Documents case management activities within time frames established by policy.
• Celebrate positive outcomes with children and family.
• Utilizes privately owned vehicle for work-related travel and duties (including transportation of children).
• Routinely serves on after-hours on-call duty.
• Embraces ongoing learning and professional development opportunities.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

The Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services, seeks a Child Welfare Services Case Manager 1 in Athens, Clarke County. The role supports stronger families by assessing safety needs and coordinating services for vulnerable children and families.

You will conduct face-to-face responses to screened reports, implement safety plans, and collaborate with community partners to ensure permanency and well-being.