Foster Care Case Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Family Service & Children’s Aid is Hiring a Forster Care Case Manager!

Looking for new to the field or a seasoned professional ready for a change, who has a passion for helping children and families on the Foster Care system. Family Service & Children’s Aid is looking to hire an individual who:

• Enjoy laughing and has a good sense of humor (potlucks too!)
• Is dedicated to improving the lives of children in foster care and families.
• Wants to work for a flexible and work-life balanced agency.
• Enjoys taking vacations and wants generous paid time off (self-care)
• Values individual supervision
• Enjoys a team approach but has the ability to be independent.
• Wants to have teammates to bounce ideas off of and be able to unwind with after a tough case.
• An Agency that adheres to the highest standards
• Come join our team and be part of a work family that works hard but also knows how to have fun and prioritizes family first.

The Foster Care Case Manager maintains a caseload of children placed in agency's foster care program, providing a wide range of case management and treatment services. Maintains required frequency of contact with foster children, birth families and foster and adoptive parents per agency policy. Provides, arranges and supervises visitation between foster children and their birth family or foster children and potential adoptive parents. Develops and implements service plan aimed toward permanency planning, in coordination with the assigned DHHS worker. Maintains court responsibility for cases as assigned and participates in court hearings as requested. Develops effective working relationships with foster children, their birth families and foster and adoptive parents, attends training required by FSCA/DHS and utilizes additional opportunities for development.

Qualifications for this position:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in a human behavioral science.
• Valid driver's license, reliable transportation and proof of automobile liability insurance.
• Cultural sensitivity.

FSCA offers one of the best employee benefit packages in the community, including the following:

• BCN Health insurance
• Dental/vision insurance
• 403 B (agency contributes when able)
• Life insurance (agency pays for certain plan and employee can increase if would like for small fee)
• Short term disability
• Generous paid time off (4-6 weeks depending on years of service)
• 13 paid holidays
• 3 employee events throughout the year that are on company paid time (get paid to have fun!)
• FSCA provides in house training opportunities and external training opportunities.

When you work with FSCA, you will join an experienced, hard-working team that values flexibility, family and providing quality services to our community. Why just work when you can help build strong families and strong communities?