Child Welfare Specialist IV- Resource Family Staff
Job Description
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This position may be located in Chickasha or Lawton, Oklahoma
Child Welfare Specialist IV H23D
Annual Salary: $52,217.89 + Full State Employee Benefits
Travel is EXTENSIVE. Must possess a valid driver's license and maintain required car insurance.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master's Degree plus one year of experience as a Child Welfare Specialist;
- OR a Bachelors Degree plus two years experience as a Child Welfare Specialist;
- OR Three years of experience as a Child Welfare Specialist.
Job Responsibilities
This is the specialist level where employees are designated as lead workers or backup supervisors to Level I, II, III Child Welfare Specialists, carry complex and difficult caseloads or are assigned responsibilities involving case consultation.
- Resource Family staff provides day-to-day operations, planning, and oversight of foster care and adoption activities. This includes maintenance of all foster, kinship, and adoptive families.
- Serves as lead worker or backup supervisor to a unit of lower-level Child Welfare Specialists.
- Serves as team leader in case staff meetings, provide on-going case consultation and advise and train lower level Child Welfare Specialists in case management and interpretation of policies and procedures.
- Carry complex and difficult caseloads, or are assigned responsibilities involving case consultation.
- Delivers in-home support and social work services for families applying or approved for adoption or foster care.
- Provides training and consultation to foster families and other placement providers.
- Completes family assessments and reassesses annually.
- Reviews child’s history and coordinates placement of children.
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OKDHS is a Fair Chance Employer.
This is a position in the Oklahoma Civil Service.
Announcement Number: 26-BC138
83011726/JR61246