Summary
Location
Oklahoma City
Type
full-time
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About this role
This position is located in Oklahoma City, 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 in professional social work in child welfare programs.
- 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.
If you have questions, please contact [email protected]
OKDHS is a Fair Chance Employer.
This is a position in the Oklahoma Civil Service.
Announcement Number: 26-BC013
83010249/JR55200
Other facts
About Oklahoma Human Services
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Our mission:
We improve the quality of life of vulnerable Oklahomans by increasing people's ability to lead safer, healthier, more independent and productive lives.
Our vision:
DHS provides help and offers hope to vulnerable Oklahomans through stronger practices, involved communities and a caring and engaged workforce.
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What you'll do
- The Child Welfare Specialist IV provides day-to-day operations and oversight of foster care and adoption activities, including maintaining foster and adoptive families. They also serve as lead workers or backup supervisors, carrying complex caseloads and providing training and consultation to lower-level specialists.
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