What are the responsibilities and job description for the FSS Caseworker position at CVR ASSOCIATES INC?
Job Description:
This position involves responsibility for providing case management services to participants in our Family Self-Sufficiency Program to help them move toward self-sufficiency and achieve their program goals. The Caseworker will provide outreach services to prospective program participants.
Essential duties include (but are not limited to):
- Provide case management services to assist program participants in achieving interim steps to self-sufficiency.
- Assists program participants in writing their service plans and setting program and family goals.
- Assist program participants in accessing appropriate public or private community agencies to obtain specialized types of assistance.
- Provides counseling in life skills areas including parenting, employment, education, financial management, public assistance, food stamps, Medicaid, nutrition, etc.
- Identifies the need for services through in-depth discussions with clients.
- Identifies impediments to progress.
- Evaluates program participants for level of motivation.
- Prepares a variety of records and reports as necessary.
Qualifications/Experience:
- Graduation from a regionally accredited or NYS registered college or university with a Bachelor’s degree in psychology, sociology, social services, human services, education or a closely related field with similar course curriculum; or
- Graduation from high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma and four years of full-time paid experience, or
- its part-time or verifiable volunteer equivalent, working in human services in a capacity involving the provision of direct services to clientele.
Salary : $20