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Foster Care Social Worker

HEARTS AND HOMES FOR YOUTH • Full-time • Burtonsville, Maryland • 9m ago

Job Details

Experienced

Burtonsville, MD

Full Time

Graduate Degree

Up to 50%

Mon-Fri, 9am -5pm

Nonprofit - Social Services

Description

Job Descriptions —Social Worker-Foster Care

(Title’s MD COMAR match= Child placement worker)

SUMMARY: The Foster Care Social Worker is responsible for supporting youth who are placed in the Hearts & Homes For Youth foster care programs. This includes Family Ties Treatment Foster Care and Damamli Mother & Baby programs. This role operates as the treatment team leader for all aspects of the child’s treatment and ongoing assessment of foster family and child functioning and progress.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Youth Services:

Complete assessments of the child’s needs and completes written psychosocial and brief initial treatment plans,
Supports youth through the creation of treatment goals with the child in care and all other defined stakeholders; including treatment plans, coordinating the treatment team, and assessing child progress toward treatment goals.
Provides individual, family, and group therapy, in-home training, and crisis intervention services to foster youth and families as needed,
Implements and supervises the provision of all prescribed services for youth in care; developing, locating, or providing service as needed,
Assures that each youth attends and obtains documentation for all necessary medical appointments.
Represents the children and the agency in-person or through written reports at all meetings pertaining to the child such as court hearings, school, and other social/community events, as needed,
Designs and monitors individual behavior programs in conjunction with youth and foster families, as needed,
Conducts weekly or semi-weekly home visits to no more than ten youth (locations are spread over several counties) and document all visits,
Maintain regular contact with individuals important to the child’s treatment such as placement workers, school staff, community mental health providers, etc…
As appropriate, maintains contact with birth families and facilitates visits between the child and their birth family,

Foster Parent Services:

Support foster parents through regular contact and support,
Provides after hours crisis intervention on-call duty on rotation schedule,
Complete recertification home studies of current foster families for licensing renewal,
Represent the foster families in all meetings with state stakeholders, legal proceedings and other venues as appropriate.

Administrative:

Participates peer file reviews, as assigned, in addition to program file reviews of youth and foster parent files,
Enters all youth data into CSOMS, the online data collection system, including all CANS assessments,
Participates in pre-service trainings, youth independent living trainings, and monthly foster parent ongoing training as assigned (designs and conducts parent and child groups, as needed)
Attends weekly supervisory sessions and all foster care staff meetings,
Maintains an active social work license in the State of Maryland,
Participates in program and agency-related special events,
Submit monthly program statistical reports, mileage logs, and items for personnel file,

SUPERVISION: The Social Worker is supervised by the Program Director or designee.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION: The Social Worker must have at minimum a Bachelors in Social Work with Maryland State Licensure. Preferred possession of a Master Degree in Social Work with Maryland State Licensure. Experience with youth in the child welfare system required.

COMMENTS: This description is intended to describe the essential job functions, the general functions and the essential requirements for the performance of this job.

It is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements of a person so classified.

Other functions may be assigned, and management retains the right to add or change the duties at any time.

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