Family Services Specialist II (Foster Care/Adoption) Albemarle
Dept of Social Services - Local (765-01)
Albemarle County’s department of Social Services is seeking a Full-Time Foster Care/Adoption worker to join our team.
Albemarle County DSS offers opportunities for continuing education and supervision toward clinical licensure (LCSW).
We aim to recruit a new team member from a diverse pool of candidates and encourage all to apply.
The Family Services Specialist II position will be responsible for performing equitable and professional casework in an inclusive team environment in accordance with established social work/counseling principles. Using an asset-based approach to engage with the client system in providing a full spectrum of psychosocial intervention services to address psychological, social, medical, educational, legal, financial, and other needs of children, adolescents, and adult members of their families. Empowering the client/family to the highest level of self-sufficiency.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Albemarle County DSS offers opportunities for continuing education and supervision toward clinical licensure (LCSW).
We aim to recruit a new team member from a diverse pool of candidates and encourage all to apply.
The Family Services Specialist II position will be responsible for performing equitable and professional casework in an inclusive team environment in accordance with established social work/counseling principles. Using an asset-based approach to engage with the client system in providing a full spectrum of psychosocial intervention services to address psychological, social, medical, educational, legal, financial, and other needs of children, adolescents, and adult members of their families. Empowering the client/family to the highest level of self-sufficiency.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Interprets laws, policies, and regulations as applied to the specific area of responsibility.
- Assesses cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning of children and their families, and develops and implements sophisticated psychosocial case plans which integrate psychodynamic, systemic, medical, and social-ecological treatment approaches, and incorporates concurrent planning.
- Provides direct counseling, applying family-systems treatment models to complex, family situations, in such a way as to strengthen families and prevent family dissolution.
- Serves in a leadership role as a case manager in planning, organizing, and coordinating service delivery by professionals representing a variety of disciplines.
- Works collaboratively with mental health, education, legal, medical, and other human services professionals in a team approach to service delivery, with responsibility for assuring coordination and effectiveness of comprehensive services to families.
- Functions as legal guardian for agency foster children (e.g., responsible for child's well-being, consents for medical treatment, etc.).
- Performs crisis intervention.
- Makes placements of children and adolescents into alternative care, including foster homes, group homes, and residential treatment facilities.
- Plans, oversees, and participates directly in court intervention to protect children and to achieve goals of permanency for children.
- Provides supportive services to promote self-sufficiency and to prevent child abuse/neglect and placement of children out of their homes.
- Writes comprehensive psychosocial assessments and service plans.
- Provides coverage after hours and on weekends, on an on-call basis, for emergencies involving abuse or neglect of children and adolescents, and for situations requiring immediate attention regarding children in the legal custody of the Department of Social Services.
- Completes necessary federal, state, and local planning and reporting requirements.
- Assesses, secures, and monitors financial resources for which the child is eligible (e.g. social security, child support, etc.).
- Follows the requirements for funding authorization and service payments for services and maintenance costs for foster children.
- Performs related duties as assigned.