Case Manager (Social Services Specialist) $32 per hour
Company: NITELINES USA, INC
Location: Summerville
Posted on: January 25, 2023
Job Description:
Nite Lines USA is looking for Case Manager's to join our team!
This position will be working with the Department of Family and
Children Services in Chattooga County. This position will be PRN -
Duration of assignment 90 days. You must live in Georgia for this
position, this role cannot be worked remotely. Social Services
Specialist 1 Job Description:Under general supervision, the Social
Services Specialist 1 provides investigative and comprehensive case
management for a caseload involving child/adult abuse or neglect.
Makes immediate and follow-up actions for at risk clients in need
of protective services and/or placement.
- 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 child(ren) 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.
- Collaborates 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 were 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.
- Celebrates positive outcomes with child(ren) 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.Please be open and flexible to commute and travel
within the Metro Atlanta surrounding areas. We are looking for
applicants who stay within these areas : Rome, Dalton, Fort
Oglethorpe, Lafayette, (Chattanooga, TN and Fort Payne, AL
)Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or
university.
- HIPPA certification required if you don't have it, we can
provide the training. COMPENSATION: $32.00/HRMileage will be
reimbursed $0.625/mile
Keywords: NITELINES USA, INC, Chattanooga , Case Manager (Social Services Specialist) $32 per hour, Executive , Summerville, Tennessee
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