SENIOR CHILD PROTECTIVE INVESTIGATOR - 60004409

Requisition No: 867242 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: SENIOR CHILD PROTECTIVE INVESTIGATOR - 60004409

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 60004409 

Salary:  54,500.16 

Posting Closing Date: 01/02/2026 

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Senior Child Protective Investigator

Department of Children and Families

Gainesville, FL

Internal Only

Current employees will be compensated in accordance with the DCF salary policy.

 

What you will do:

This is professional work protecting children, working with families and conducting investigations of alleged abused, abandoned, neglected or exploited children. This position will assume an individual contributor role and be a model of child protection practice to other Child Protective Investigators (CPIs).

 

How you will make an impact:

• Conduct investigations regarding allegations of abuse, neglect, abandonment and/or

special conditions for children.

• Collect information through interviews with the children, parents, relatives, neighbors,

and other parties associated with the case.

• Engage families, identifies needs and determines the level of intervention needed to

include voluntary services or court ordered dependency services; provides services

linkages to agency and community resources based on needs assessment.

• Provide recommendations for development of case plan to Case Manager.

• Conduct initial/ongoing child Present and Impending Danger assessments.

• Develop with the family a signed Present Danger Plan and a signed safety plan for any

identified threats and interventions.

• Arrange emergency placement for any child that cannot safely remain in the home.

• Notify state attorney, law enforcement, child protection team and other required

individuals as appropriate.

• Schedule and gathers information for and participates in case staffings,

• Prepare appropriate reports/documentation in coordination with Children’s Legal

Services and provide testimony in court.

• Maintain thorough documentation in the client records/appropriate information system(s)

and maintains organized client files.

• Report indication of abuse, neglect and/or abandonment to the Florida Abuse Hotline.

• Provide subject matter expertise to help less experienced CPIs build increased capacity

in investigative skills.

• Provide case consultation and advises and/or co-investigates complex cases with other

CPIs to assure appropriateness, clarity, quality, and thoroughness.

• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with organizations and other

agencies involved with child protective investigations such as community based

providers, Children’s Legal Services, law enforcement, medical personnel, schools, and

other community/agency resources.

• Ensure effective communication with deaf or hard-of hearing Customers or companions

in accordance with the ADA and/or Section 504 and shall manage service records and

report this data and any resources and/or training needs to their designated program

point of contact.

 

Qualifications:

• Criteria 1:       (a)         A high school diploma or GED equivalent AND

 (b)         Four years of law enforcement experience or active military

service (honorably discharged or status that current service

reflects serving honorably); AND

 (c)         Minimum 1.5 years/18 months (post provisional certification) of

Child Welfare Experience, preferred in Child Protective

Investigations AND

 (d)         Current/Active Child Welfa