Position Summary: Under the supervision of the Clinical Supervisor or his/her designee, the Clinical Social Worker provides behaviorally focused services.
Duties And Responsibilities
Essential Duties:
Provides in-home, in-school, in-community behavioral management training and interventions to emotionally disturbed children in foster care.
Contact, at a minimum one time bi-weekly in the home, with foster children and resource families. Weekly visits should be completed during times of crisis or elevated need.
Document and communicate case needs to the assigned County Social Worker and participate/facilitate treatment meetings, as needed.
Assist in the placement of foster children.
Provide individual, group, and family counseling, as needed.
Complete mandatory documentation and reports in an accurate and timely manner.
Supervise resource families and resource homes to monitor compliance with state regulations and accreditation standards.
Maintain foster child files, including the needs and services plan and other required paperwork according to state regulations and accreditation standards.
Participate in the recruitment, evaluation, orientation, certification, recertification and training of resource homes.
Provide Crisis Intervention services to foster children, biological families, and resource families, as needed.
Participate in discharge planning decisions.
Coordinate services to support placement, including liaison with county, therapeutic services, educational needs, family contacts, and other such activities.
Access foster child and resource family’s needs for each placement.
Transport foster children to appointments as needed from resource home.
Supervise visits between foster children and birth family members, and provide written notes of the visitations.
Remain available by cellular phone during business hours to assist with emergency and/or urgent situations.
Participate in the Weekly On-Call Rotation schedule.
Agency Duties
Assist in planning of and participate in resource family and other agency activities
Conduct Worker of the Day responsibilities.
Facilitate team approach and assist other staff in program/agency as needed.
Provide assistance and perform tasks related to program activities, including and not limited to compliance, resource parent training, special events, newsletters, and resource family development.
Participates actively in all required staff meetings, in-staff trainings and supervision.
Assist yearly in Resource Parent University planning.
Supervise paraprofessional staff and interns, if requested.
Participate in recruitment of new potential resource families for the agency.
Maintains all current licensing and/or professional certification requirements.
Abides by all provisions of the Aldea Policies and Procedures Manual.
Willing to perform other related duties needed as assigned.
Reporting Relationship
Clinical Supervisor.
Subordinate Staff (providing Direct Supervision)
None.
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Mental Health Care
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