_*Our Work Changes Lives!*_
_Are you looking for a rewarding career helping children and families?_
Somerset County Children and Youth Services is looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate, and meticulous *Caseworker II* to join our growing team!
This career will allow you to gain useful and rewarding firsthand experience – and make a _real_ impact on people’s lives.
This full-time position offers a competitive salary and generous benefit package, yearly pay increases, and *tuition reimbursement!*
*Job Description:*
This is a professional social service position in a County Children and Youth Agency.
Employees in this class provide a full range of social and case management services to children, youth and families, people who are mentally and physically challenged, to assist them in attaining a more satisfactory social, economic, emotional, or physical adjustment.
An
important aspect of this work is the employment of casework skills in obtaining essential information, counseling clients and members of their families, and helping them to utilize all available resources.
Work also involves the application of problem-solving techniques, providing counseling to maximize service delivery and to achieve service plan goals, monitoring client behavior, and interacting with agencies, which make up the service network.
Work is performed in accordance with established regulations, laws, policies, and procedures.
Work is reviewed by a professional social service or administrative supervisor through regularly scheduled individual and group conferences, and the review of records and reports.
*Responsibilities/Duties:*
· Provides casework services to families and children.
· Assesses risk and safety of children ant regular intervals as per Department of Human Service’s regulations.
· Investigates allegations of Child/Abuse and Neglect.
· Develops and implement service plans with clients based on strengths and concerns identified during assessment.
· Makes referrals to community resources and works collaboratively with providers to assure the needs of the family are being met.
· Participates in planning for coordination of services.
· Participates in periodic reviews of services provided to families as required by DHS regulations.
· Prepares court documents, attendance at court hearings and testifies to the facts of the case.
· Maintains contact with all case members as per DHS regulations, through home, field, office or school visits.
· Maintains accurate documentation in the record by documenting all contacts in the case and keeping the electronic file up to date.
· Obtains and reviews all records and reports regarding family.
· Completes necessary filing and maintenance of records.
· Maintains statistics and completes required paperwork/reports.
· Serves as an advocate for children and parents.
· Utilizes critical thinking and conflict resolution skills to handle crisis situations in the field.
· Performs emergency on-call duty as scheduled
*Requirements:*
* At least 1 year of experience as a County Caseworker I and PA Caseworker Certification.
_*Somerset County Children and Youth Services affirms a commitment to nondiscrimination in services, and equal opportunity and affirmative action in all employment actions and procurement activities*_
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $37,374.
00 per year
Benefits:
* Dental insurance
* Employee assistance program
* Health insurance
* Health savings account
* Life insurance
* Paid time off
* Referral program
* Retirement plan
* Tuition reimbursement
* Vision insurance
Schedule:
* Evening shift
* On call
Ability to commute/relocate:
* Somerset, PA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Education:
* Associate (Required)
Experience:
* Caseworker I: 1 year (Required)
License/Certification:
* Driver's License (Required)
* PA Casework Certification (Required)
Security clearance:
* Confidential (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
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