Caseworker I/Social Service Worker TAL team-DCFS Southwest Region (St. George)

Caseworker I/Social Service Worker TAL team-DCFS Southwest Region (St. George)

FT / PT Status – Full-Time
Salary – See Position Description
Remote Work / In-Office –  5 days In-Office / On-Site (St. George office)

Recruiter – Eliana Sigler | esigler1@utah.gov |
Application Deadline – 7/1/2026

 Caseworker I/Social Service Worker-TAL team

Are you looking for a career where you can make a difference?
Becoming a Caseworker I or Social Service Worker at the Utah Division of Child & Family Services (DCFS) can be a life changing event!  If you have a social work background and a passion to work with children and families, Child & Family Services is the place for you.  If you enjoy working closely with teenagers, helping them find connections, and encouraging them to be their best self, then this is the job for you! Together we can make a difference through service.

This position may be filled as either a Caseworker I or Social Service Worker, depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate.

Key Responsibilities

DCFS TAL (Transition to Adult Living) Caseworkers and Social Service Workers work to keep children with their own families whenever safely possible by assessing their and their families' needs, getting them connected to available resources, and conducting in-home services of appropriate intensity and duration. They work to reunify children who have been removed from their homes whenever possible or find enduring safety and permanency for them through alternative options. To accomplish this, caseworkers work closely with the subject matter experts, are provided with regular professional supervision, and complete DCFS Practice Model Training while performing the following tasks:

• Investigating reports of abuse, exploitation, and/or neglect; assessing risks, strengths, barriers; and determining appropriate actions governing a client's situation.

• Working with families to create plans for children’s safety and for ongoing services.

• Coordinating and referring services to children and families offered by community resources, placement providers, collateral agencies, the courts, and community partners.

• Supervising visits between parents and children to ensure safety.

• Conducting in-home visits to assess safety and track progress.

• Facilitating Child and Family Team Meetings with the family, their formal and informal supports.

• Testifying in court hearings regarding actions, findings, procedures, and protocols.

• Preparing detailed case documentation that includes: intake records, investigation summaries, assessments of safety, risk and family functioning risk service plans, court reports, case history, and activity logs.

• May include performing 24-hour-on-call services as needed under supervisor's direction. 24-hour on-call service assignments may be based on, and subject to, geographic employment location and/or agency demand.  

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Previous or current employment with the DHHS; working with residential youth or adults participating in programs related to domestic violence, abuse, or homelessness; working in a domestic violence or homeless shelter, or with any agency providing mental or behavioral health services; any public or private school in an educational or social work-related role; foster or kinship provider, contracted DHHS service provider, or other fields closely related to child welfare), or a combination of experience and education to equal four years.

• If work experience was not full-time, the equivalent must be calculated in comparison to full-time. For example, two years of ha