CWS Team Leader - Family Preservation / 61012233

Posting number: 191454

Department: Department of Social Services

Division: County Office-Allendale

Job classification: Case Worker II

Posting type: Open

Categories: Community Services, Health Services, Social Services, Human Services, Community and Social Services

Summary

• The Child Welfare Services Team Leader provides direct supervision to Child Welfare Service area of Family Preservation. Ensures accountability to front line case managers by conducting case consultations, coaching, training and providing support in accordance with DSS Policy, Agency Mission and GPS Practice Model. Performs on-call duties and provides support to on-call staff.

• Promotes safety, permanency and well-being by ensuring fidelity to policy and procedures and conducting case consultation and case reviews, facilitating meetings, reviewing data reports, monitoring policy changes, and ensuring staff attendance in mandatory trainings.

• Ensures timely completion of Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessments for Foster Care and Family Advocacy and Support Tool (FAST) for Investigations and Family Preservation, Child and Family Team meetings, Family Permanency Plans and referrals in accordance with DSS Policy. Ensures CAPSS reflects up to date case information and quality documentation. Ensure timely referrals for services and least intrusive interventions are used with families to address needs identified and maintain the safety of children. Ensures case manager facilitates and/or participates in child and family team meetings.

• Promotes timely permanency by providing case consultation per policy to assess ongoing risks and safety concerns and family engagement; works with case managers to ensure permanency resources are explored at the onset of agency involvement and ongoing. Ensures legal actions are initiated timely when risk and safety concerns require removal to foster care or non-emergency removal. Ensures timely court packets are submitted for permanency planning hearings. Monitors adherence to court orders, identifies and addresses legal barriers that impact legal proceedings.

• Authentically engages and works collaboratively with child welfare staff, families and other professionals with empathy, respect and leadership. Ensures concerted efforts to locate non-custodial parents and kinship support is ongoing. Responds timely and professionally to constituent inquiries.

• Provides case managers with EPMS planning and evaluation plans. Participates in hiring and training of all new employees, promotes equal opportunity, develops a diverse workforce, and gives fair opportunity to all staff. Completes performance and practice evaluations on direct reports biannually and upon request for level ascension. Timely submits evaluations for level ascension and EMPS evaluations.

• Maintains child welfare certification. Attends FAST/CANS certification annually. Completes 20 hours of training yearly to include certifications that are required yearly.