What are the responsibilities and job description for the Social Worker IA&T-In Home position at City of Santa Fe Springs?
Primary Purpose
This position is located in the Child and Family Services Division. It is a staff position and reports to their supervisor on a Children's Services team.
The primary purpose of this position is to provide family based social work services designed to strengthen and empower families while ensuring the safety of children in cases in which abuse, neglect and/or dependency have been alleged or found. This is accomplished by conducting a child protective services assessment and/or in-home services. This position also conducts assessments and participates routinely in the back-up on call rotation. This position assesses relatives and other kinship type persons, as possible caretakers in the event the child cannot remain safely in the home.
Essential Functions
Comprehensive and On-Going Safety and Risk Assessments to include:
Master’s degree from an accredited school of social work and one year of social work experience; or a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school of social work and two years of social work or counseling experience; or Master’s degree in a counseling field and two years of social work or counseling experience; or a four-year degree in a human services field or related curriculum and three years of social work or counseling experience; or graduation from a four-year college or university and four years of experience in rehabilitation counseling, pastoral counseling or a related human service field providing experience in the techniques of casework, group work or community organization; or an equivalent combination of training and experience. One year of work experience can be credited for completion of the social work collaborative.
Equivalent Training and Experience: MSW or BSW degrees are preferred. Other appropriate combinations of education and experience will be considered for trainee / work-against status. 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.
Special Requirements
G.S. 153A-94.2(b) Subject to SBI criminal history record check prior to hire.
Must possess a valid North Carolina driver's license; any restrictions on North Carolina’s driver's license must not prohibit the performance of the essential functions of the position.
Additional Information
Physical Requirements
The worker must be able to lift up to 80 lbs such as car seats and small children and must not have any physical restrictions, which would limit their ability to work outside of the agency.
Craven County offers regular full-time employees a wide variety of employee benefits including:
Health Insurance
Health Insurance is provided by ACS Benefits Services and covers a wide variety of healthcare services. Craven County pays 100% of Employee Only premium cost. Employees have the option to add child and spouse dependent coverage at their own cost.
Dental Insurance
Dental Insurance is provided through the Delta Dental PPO and Delta Dental Premier network administered by ACS Benefits Services. It covers a percentage of basic to major dental procedures, including orthodontia for children. Craven County pays 100% of Employee Only premium cost. Employees have the option to add child and spouse dependent coverage at their own expense.
Life Insurance and AD&D
Craven County provides eligible employees with $10,000 life insurance and accidental dealth and dismemberment coverage through OneAmerica AUL. Employees have the option to purchase additional coverage and/or dependent coverage at their own expense.
Disability Insurance
Craven County provides eligible employees with $50.00 per week in disability insurance through OneAmerica AUL. Employees have the option to purchase additional disability insurance at their own cost.
North Carolina Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System
Eligible employees are automatically enrolled in the retirement system and must contribute 6% of their gross salary each pay period. Once eligibility requirements are met, employees will be able to receive monthly payments for life based on their salary, age, and years of service credit.
NC401k
Craven County contributes 2% of eligible employees' gross salary into the 401(k) account regardless of the employee's deferral amount. In addition, the County matches employee deferrals up to an additional 3%.
Annual Leave
Regular full-time employees earn annual leave based upon years of service. Eligible employees begin to accrue annual leave as soon as they start but must complete a six month probationary period before they are eligible to use annual leave.
Regular full-time employees earn 3.69 hours of sick leave per pay period. Craven County accepts eligible sick leave from the State of North Carolina, any of its political subdivisions, any local government entity or authority, or municipality in North Carolina.
Paid Holidays
County employees receive 11-14 paid holidays annually. The Board of County Commissioners may adjust the holiday schedule as deemed necessary.
Longevity
Eligible employees earn $200 in longevity after five years of service by October 31 of the qualifying year. Longevity benefits increase $25 per year up to a maximum of $1,000.
Merit Program
Craven County offers a merit program. Up to 56% of eligible employees may receive a performance-based merit increase each year.
Supplemental Benefits
County employees are also offered a variety of supplemental benefits to select at their own expense such as Life Insurance, Vision Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Critical Care policies, Cancer policies, Long-term Care policies, Hospitalization policies, 457b Deferred Compensation Plan and Aflac.
Employee benefits are subject to change or may be contingent upon funding availability.
This position is located in the Child and Family Services Division. It is a staff position and reports to their supervisor on a Children's Services team.
The primary purpose of this position is to provide family based social work services designed to strengthen and empower families while ensuring the safety of children in cases in which abuse, neglect and/or dependency have been alleged or found. This is accomplished by conducting a child protective services assessment and/or in-home services. This position also conducts assessments and participates routinely in the back-up on call rotation. This position assesses relatives and other kinship type persons, as possible caretakers in the event the child cannot remain safely in the home.
Essential Functions
Comprehensive and On-Going Safety and Risk Assessments to include:
- Reviews all clinical assessments, agency documents and other evaluations that may provide insight into family dynamics and underlying mental health, social or physical needs that must be addressed to ensure children’s safety and well-being.
- As required by policy at each home visit either formally or informally assess for safety and well-being needs of the children with specific policy guidelines concerning substance affected infants, safe sleep for children under the age of 1, and domestic violence.
- Complete DSS 5226 Family Risk Reassessments at the time of Family Service agreement development and updates, whenever significant change occur in the family, prior to any new court action and within 30 days prior to case closure.
- Assess family strengths and needs informally throughout the life of the case and formally use the DSS-5229 prior to completing a Family Services Agreement and 30 days prior to case closure in an In-Home Services Case. For families with children living out-of-the home the Strength and Needs should be performed within the same time frames of Permanency Planning Meetings.
- Conduct trauma screenings and refer for appropriate trauma assessment and treatment services at initiation of services and every 6 months thereafter.
- Perform comprehensive Kinship assessments when assisting families with temporary safety placements or prior to asking the court to sanction a relative placement.
- Initiates and completes CPS assessments re: reports of abuse, neglect and/or dependency by assessing the risk of harm to children involved in the report, gathering information from the family collateral, and staffing with unit members to determine if the family is in need of mandated services according to N.C. General Statutes.
- Must be completed within 30 days of initiating In Home Services and in partnership with the family based on information discussed at the Child and Family Team (CFT) Meeting. Both parents, other primary caregivers, and any other persons who are involved in and critical for the successful completion of the agreement. Children should be included if cognitively and emotionally able to participate.
- Must address the maltreatment and issues that brought the children into mandatory services and include objectives and activities that are measurable, time-limited, and describe specific desired outcomes, and identify necessary behavior changes.
- Must include specific services, strategies and supports needed to achieve safety, permanence and well-being needs of the children.
- Develops a therapeutic relationship with the clients.
- Develops jointly a safety plan and/or an in-home services agreement which includes concurrent planning with the family which identifies the goal of the agency intervention, describes specific desired outcomes, identifies the necessary behavior changes, gives time-oriented steps to reach the objectives, and states who is responsible for the requisite actions and tasks and ensure safety of all children and addresses concerns or abuse neglect or dependency.
- Utilize the state mandated tools for ongoing assessment and services provision.
- Provides ongoing risk assessments to determine risk to children in order to guide the case planning process.
- Includes documentation of all actions/contacts to show the involvement of the family in the development of the agreement with clear time-specific objectives and activities that relate to the strengths and needs of the parents. Noncustodial parents must be contacted and included in the development of the plan.
- Arranges for and provides direct services to help the family change the maltreating behavior. This includes giving information, instruction, guidance and mentoring regarding parenting skills, child development and the importance of developing a nurturing and permanent home for children.
- Coordinates with involved professionals such as therapists, doctors, school personnel, attorneys, judges, speech therapists, etc. Requests evaluation, reports and other documents. Reviews professional evaluations and includes recommendations in the case plan. Ensure that recommendations of medical providers are followed as written.
- Referral or monitoring of services needed to address maltreatment issues as appropriate, including referrals to DSS-provided clinical treatment such as TF-CBT.
- Arrange/participate in Child and Family Team meetings and Shared Parenting process. Reviews the case plan as warranted by the family’s progress.
- As required by policy conduct face-to-face visits with all children and interview each child regarding safety and well-being issues.
- Prepare children, biological parents and temporary safety providers for any changes in residence a child may experience while services are being provided. Assist families in understanding psychological safety and the difficulties children may experience when they experience moves and changes in their life.
- Prepare children and their families for court when in-home services are not successful and court action is sought. Participate in Prehearing conferences and prepare court reports by due dates so attorney’s receive reports prior to the court date.
- Provide reasonable efforts to ensure children can remain safely in the custody of their parents or legal guardians.
- Submit all vouchers, pay agreements, time sheets, mileage forms within policy guidelines.
- Assist in maintaining the financial security of the agency by completing daysheets accurately and timely, reflecting all daily work activities
- Assist families in identifying service providers that are within their financial means and/or accept their insurance when available.
- Attend case staffing, unit meetings and Division Meeting.
- Complete all mandatory preservice training and 24 hours of additional training per year of service.
- This position also assists in disaster relief efforts that include but is not limited to shelter duty. Assignment to emergency shelter duty during times of potentially dangerous or manmade disasters is an essential function of this position and you shall be required to fulfill these duties when instructed. Position may perform other duties as assigned by the Social Work Supervisor III, Social Worker Program Administrator I, Social Work Program Manager, Director, and Deputy Director.
Master’s degree from an accredited school of social work and one year of social work experience; or a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school of social work and two years of social work or counseling experience; or Master’s degree in a counseling field and two years of social work or counseling experience; or a four-year degree in a human services field or related curriculum and three years of social work or counseling experience; or graduation from a four-year college or university and four years of experience in rehabilitation counseling, pastoral counseling or a related human service field providing experience in the techniques of casework, group work or community organization; or an equivalent combination of training and experience. One year of work experience can be credited for completion of the social work collaborative.
Equivalent Training and Experience: MSW or BSW degrees are preferred. Other appropriate combinations of education and experience will be considered for trainee / work-against status. 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.
Special Requirements
G.S. 153A-94.2(b) Subject to SBI criminal history record check prior to hire.
Must possess a valid North Carolina driver's license; any restrictions on North Carolina’s driver's license must not prohibit the performance of the essential functions of the position.
Additional Information
Physical Requirements
The worker must be able to lift up to 80 lbs such as car seats and small children and must not have any physical restrictions, which would limit their ability to work outside of the agency.
Craven County offers regular full-time employees a wide variety of employee benefits including:
Health Insurance
Health Insurance is provided by ACS Benefits Services and covers a wide variety of healthcare services. Craven County pays 100% of Employee Only premium cost. Employees have the option to add child and spouse dependent coverage at their own cost.
Dental Insurance
Dental Insurance is provided through the Delta Dental PPO and Delta Dental Premier network administered by ACS Benefits Services. It covers a percentage of basic to major dental procedures, including orthodontia for children. Craven County pays 100% of Employee Only premium cost. Employees have the option to add child and spouse dependent coverage at their own expense.
Life Insurance and AD&D
Craven County provides eligible employees with $10,000 life insurance and accidental dealth and dismemberment coverage through OneAmerica AUL. Employees have the option to purchase additional coverage and/or dependent coverage at their own expense.
Disability Insurance
Craven County provides eligible employees with $50.00 per week in disability insurance through OneAmerica AUL. Employees have the option to purchase additional disability insurance at their own cost.
North Carolina Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System
Eligible employees are automatically enrolled in the retirement system and must contribute 6% of their gross salary each pay period. Once eligibility requirements are met, employees will be able to receive monthly payments for life based on their salary, age, and years of service credit.
NC401k
Craven County contributes 2% of eligible employees' gross salary into the 401(k) account regardless of the employee's deferral amount. In addition, the County matches employee deferrals up to an additional 3%.
Annual Leave
Regular full-time employees earn annual leave based upon years of service. Eligible employees begin to accrue annual leave as soon as they start but must complete a six month probationary period before they are eligible to use annual leave.
- Less than two years of service earns 10 days per year.
- Two but less than five years of service earns 12 days per year.
- Five but less than 10 years of service earns 15 days per year.
- 10 but less than 20 years of service earns 18 days per year.
- 20 or more years of service earns 20 days per year.
Regular full-time employees earn 3.69 hours of sick leave per pay period. Craven County accepts eligible sick leave from the State of North Carolina, any of its political subdivisions, any local government entity or authority, or municipality in North Carolina.
Paid Holidays
County employees receive 11-14 paid holidays annually. The Board of County Commissioners may adjust the holiday schedule as deemed necessary.
Longevity
Eligible employees earn $200 in longevity after five years of service by October 31 of the qualifying year. Longevity benefits increase $25 per year up to a maximum of $1,000.
Merit Program
Craven County offers a merit program. Up to 56% of eligible employees may receive a performance-based merit increase each year.
Supplemental Benefits
County employees are also offered a variety of supplemental benefits to select at their own expense such as Life Insurance, Vision Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Critical Care policies, Cancer policies, Long-term Care policies, Hospitalization policies, 457b Deferred Compensation Plan and Aflac.
Employee benefits are subject to change or may be contingent upon funding availability.
Salary : $25 - $1,000