Child Welfare Case Manager

As a Child Welfare Case Manager, you will work with other dedicated professionals who share your passion for helping individuals in need. We offer:

• Salaries starting at $47,000 for new and certified child welfare case managers.
• Opportunities to make a positive impact in the lives of children in need of support
• Unique rewards that come from seeing families improve and flourish with the services you referred them to
• Quality comprehensive Benefits including low-cost, high-coverage health insurance, generous time-off, and competitive 403b retirement plus 30-day benefit eligibility waiting period for new hires!  Home | BenePortal

Our Communities Connected for Kids Program provides services for children and families in the child welfare system, to ensure a community without abuse, neglect and abandonment. Based out of Fort Pierce, FL, this position is responsible for providing safety assessment and coordination of services for children and families referred by the Department of Children and Families due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment by caregivers.  Additional responsibilites of the position include:

• Conduct child safety assessments.
• Assess client needs and develop service plans
• Coordinate the delivery of services, plan referrals and linkages to clients and families
• Monitor service plan progress and evaluate reports from multiple service providers
• Develop and maintain case and program documentation according to contract and CCKids standards (assessments, treatment/service plans, progress notes, termination summaries, etc.)
• Prepare case/status reports and make recommendations/testify at courts or other prescribed body regarding reunification, termination of parental rights or other permanency plans
• Conduct diligent searches as required by Dependency laws
• Coordinate services with other professionals and paraprofessionals
• Conduct community outreach as needed
• Provide specialized services that may include detainment, interstate compact, post placement supervision, relative/non-relative caregiver home studies, court testimony, termination of parental rights and judicial review staffing
• Provide support to children, caregivers and family members to assure stable placement and timely achievement of permanency
• Assist family/caregivers in accessing subsidy, medical coverage and other needed services for children
• Coordinate cases with supervisor, team members, providers, DCF and CLS attorneys as needed
• Facilitate placement and independent living
• May remove and place children
• May facilitate mediation staffing for reunification, TPR and detainment
• Arrange or provide transportation of clients when needed
• Arrange for drug/alcohol screens as necessary
• Testify in dependency court proceedings and provide court work to CLS attorneys
• Provide on call support as required or scheduled
• Maintain required child welfare certification
• Other assigned duties as required

#sponsored

Education:

• Bachelor's degree required from an accredited university in social work or related area of study. Related degrees include: criminology, juvenile justice, psychology, sociology, counseling, special education, education, human development, child development, family development, marriage and family therapy, or nursing. Will also consider human services and criminal justice with DCF authorization.

Other Requirements:

• Upon hire all Case Managers are required to obtain certification as a Child Protection Professional with 12 months. CWCM a plus.
• Valid FL State Issued Driver's License
• Work schedule hours will be a core Monday - Friday, dayshift; however flexibility to work outside of regular business hours is required including evenings and weekends due to the needs of the clients.

About Communities Connected for Kids

Communities Connected for Kids provides oversight and coordination of the child-welfare system in Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie counties. At any given time, there are about 1,300 abused, abandoned or neglected children in our care. We are responsible for the safety and well-being of each one of them. We meet this responsibility through a mix of direct and contracted services. If you think about it in terms of building a house, we are the general contractor of the child-welfare system. The system is the house, we are the contractor, and our network of service providers are the subcontractors we pull together to make the house strong and ready to live in.

Who We Serve

Communities Connected for Kids offers a full range of care for children, adolescents, young adults and family members in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast. We offer our services through a wide variety of approaches including in-home parenting and prevention services, family preservation, case management, residential programs and extended foster care services for teenagers and young adults.

In the tradition of true partnership, Communities Connected for Kids works closely with several agencies that are funded through Medicaid, substance abuse/mental health or private funds to offer a continuum of treatment services otherwise unfunded by Community Based Care dollars. These partnerships help families strengthen their capacity to care for their children or help children heal from trauma they’ve experienced.

Mission

Our mission is to enhance the safety, permanency and well-being of all children in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast through a community network of family support services.

Values

Communities Connected for Kids values are:

We are accountable to the children and families we serve and to the communities in which we live.  We ensure services provided are:

• Individualized, based on the strengths and needs of the families we serve
• Respectful and culturally sensitive
• Effective and accountable
• Evidence based and data driven
• Permanency focused
• Ensure financial and human resources are managed and maximized 

Our Vision

We envision a community without abuse, neglect and abandonment so all children grow to their full potential.