Social Worker III- Permanency Planning Foster Care
Social Worker III- Permanency Planning Foster Care
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Buncombe Countys Social Work Division is hiring for a Social Worker III. We are looking for someone who are ready and willing to grow with us! This posting is for ongoing recruitment in the Foster Care & Adoptions.
This position will be hired as a fullyqualified Social Worker or Social Worker Trainee depending on candidate qualifications. The pay rate for Social Worker Trainee is $26.77/hour and Social Worker is $28.65/hour to $33.45/hour depending on education and experience above minimum qualifications.
As Social Worker Trainee candidates will be hired with the expectation that to continue employment the selected candidate will successfully advance to a Social Worker position once the employee is fully qualified. At that time the selected candidate will be promoted and compensated as such.
We are committed to building an inclusive workforce that is representative of our diverse community. If you are interested in this position but are not certain if you meet the exact qualification requirements we encourage you to apply. Buncombe County uses a substantial equivalency standard to determine if applicants are qualified.
Purpose of the position:
The purpose of this position is to provide permanency planning services to children and resource families to ensure a safe and permanent placement of children in agency custody.
Minimum Education Training and/or Experience (required at time of hire): Masters degree in Social Work; or a Bachelors degree in Social Work and one 1 year of directly related experience; or a Bachelors degree in Criminal Justice Sociology Psychology or Human Services and two 2 years directly related experience; or Bachelors degree in another field and three 3 years of directly related experience; or an equivalent combination of training and experience. *BSW and Social Work Collaborative Students preferred.
Essential Functions of the position:
- Ensure children who cannot safely return to their birth families achieve a safe and legally secure placement via adoption or guardianship.
- Provide services through which a plan for temporary substitute care appropriate to a childs needs is evaluated arranged maintained and supervised in Court sanctioned placement or a licensed facility when the childs own family is unable to care for him/her adequately due to safety/risk factors.
- Provide direct services to children and their preadoptive caregivers to ensure the protection safety and permanency of the children.
- Assess prepare place and monitor children cleared for adoption.
- Provide state mandated case management services for children in DSS Legal Custody.
- Develop and monitor service plans with families and provide or refer services as needed.
- Make recommendations to the court including services needed progress and barriers to permanent plan.
- Establish rapport with children families and appropriate professionals/nonprofessionals in the community to provide a strengthsbased family centered approach in working with families throughout child welfare involvement.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Knowledge Skills Abilities:
- Ability to prioritize identify and assess risks problems and needs often in stressful situations with clients who are hostile emotionally confused and resistant; Ability to effectively deescalate individuals.
- Knowledge of medical behavioral and socioeconomic problems and their treatment.
- Knowledge of numerous funding sources and how to utilize them.
- Knowledge of basic criminal justice procedures elements of medical and mental disorders personality theory family systems dynamics interpersonal relations and cultural differences values and lifestyles.
- Skills in establishing constructive relationships with resistant clients and utilizing familycentered SW practice.
- Skills and counseling in interviewing and the ability to express ideas clearly and concisely and to plan and execute work effectively; and skills in creating resources when none are readily available.
- Thorough Knowledge of social work principles techniques and practices and their application to specific casework and community problems.
- Thorough knowledge of agency procedures and resources community systems and resources manual material state and federal regulations permanency planning philosophy and laws governing protective services for children.
In order to uphold internal pay parity and equity salaries are nonnegotiable for new and current Buncombe County employees. All new employees are paid according to their years of relevant education and experience above minimum requirements for the position and employees have the opportunity to obtain pay increases via cost of living increases and promotions.
Buncombe County Government realizes the importance of a diverse professional workforce and the need to foster a responsive and innovative organizational culture one that fully engages all of our employees honoring and building on each employees unique experiences opinions and perspective.
It is the policy of Buncombe County to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all persons regardless of race color religion sex national origin political affiliation physical or mental disability age veteran status genetic information sexual orientation gender identity or any other legally protected class under federal or NC State law. In addition Buncombe County expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination.
Applicants for employment are invited to participate in the affirmative action program by reporting their status as a protected veteran or other minority. In extending this invitation we advise you that: (a) workers (applicants) are under no obligation to respond but may do so in the future if they choose; (b) responses will remain confidential within the human resource department; and (c) responses will be used only for the necessary information to include in our affirmative action program. We are a company that values diversity. We actively encourage women minorities veterans and disabled employees to apply. Refusal to provide this information will have no bearing on your application and will not subject you to any adverse treatment.
Employment Type
Full-Time
