Social Worker III - In Home

Pitt County; Greenville (NC); Vor Ort; USD 55.000 - 86.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Pitt County seeks a Kinnect to Family Social Worker to engage in urgent family search and kinship engagement. The role focuses on identifying kinship caregivers and creating robust support plans for youth in CPS or foster care systems.

You will conduct kinship home assessments and coordinate multi-system meetings with kinship members to discuss supportive placements. Essential duties include applying social work principles, leveraging community resources, and ensuring compliance with laws and

Qualifikationen

• Masters in social work or related degree; required for licensure as a social worker.
• Bachelor's degree in social work or human services field with related experience accepted.
• Valid North Carolina driver license required.

Aufgaben

• Engage in urgent family search and engagement to identify kinship caregivers.
• Create a Roadmap to Family support plan and coordinate with CPS, foster care, or residential youth.
• Conduct kinship home assessments/home studies and related tasks.
• Coordinate and facilitate multi-system meetings with identified kinship members to discuss supports and placements.

Kenntnisse

Driver license

Bilinguals encouraged

Communication skills

Case management experience

Intervention techniques

Ausbildung

Master's degree in social work

Bachelor's degree in social work

Bachelor's degree in human services field

Jobbeschreibung

General Statement or Primary Purpose

Primary of Purpose: The primary responsibility of this position is to engage in urgent, diligent family search and engagement to identify potential kinship caregivers, and creating a robust support plan (Roadmap to Family) and connect youth involved with Child Protective Services, foster care or residential treatment with kin-both biological and chosen-who can provide support and permanency. The Kinnect to Family Social Worker conducts child-specific kinship home assessments/home studies and all tasks associated with these. They will also regularly coordinate and facilitate multi-system meetings, including the identified kinship members, to discuss all relevant issues surrounding kinship supports and placements. Through innovative tools and best practices, Kinnect to Family helps ensure that youth remain connected to the people who know and love them.

Duties and Responsibilities or Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

Thorough knowledge of social work principles, techniques, and practices, and their application to complex casework, groupwork, and community problems. Considerable knowledge of a wide range of medical, behavioral, and/or psychosocial problems and their treatment theory. Considerable knowledge of family and group dynamics and a range of intervention techniques, governmental and private organizations, and resources in the community, laws, regulations, and policies which govern the program. General knowledge of the methods and principles of casework supervision and training. In certain settings, considerable knowledge of medical terminology, disease processes and their treatment as they relate to decisions regarding clinical interventions and appropriate therapies based on medical or psychological diagnosis. Skill in establishing rapport with a client and in applying techniques or assessing psychosocial, behavioral, and psychological aspects of client’s problems. Ability to supervise, train, or instruct lower-level social workers, students, or interns in the program. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with members of case load and their families, as well as civic, legal, medical, social, and religious organizations. Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely and to plan and execute work effectively.

Minimum Education and Experience

Master's degree in social work from an accredited school of social work; Bachelor's degree in social work from an accredited school of social work and completion of the Child Welfare Collaborative (Child Welfare positions only); Bachelor's degree in social work from an accredited school of social work and one year directly related experience; Master's degree in a human services field and one year of directly related experience; Bachelor's degree in a human services field from an accredited college or university and two years directly related experience; Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and three years of directly related experience.

NOTE: Will accept applications for Social Worker II at Salary Grade 67 ($54,684 - $86,429) working against Social Worker III.

Minimum Training and Experience: Bachelor's degree in social work from an appropriately accredited institution; bachelor's degree in a human services field from an appropriately accredited institution and one year of directly related experience; bachelor's degree from an appropriately accredited institution and two years directly related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. (Directly related experience is defined as human services experience in the areas of case management, assessment and referral, supportive counseling, intervention, psycho-social therapy and treatment planning.) Valid North Carolina driver license required. Bilinguals encouraged to apply. DD 214 is required from applicants claiming a military preference.

Equal Opportunity Employer