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Child Protective Services Caseworker

1.0	Child Protection Assessment: determines the presence, absence, frequency and severity of child abuse and neglect both prior to and following intervention, the impact of child abuse/neglect on the children, the presence of safety factors and the presence or absence of parental protective capacities.
2.0	Family Team Meetings: prepares for and facilitates this strengths based practice approach designed to bring together family supports and empower families to identify their own strengths and needs
3.0	Treatment and Service Provision: obtains/provides services/resources to improve/enhance the clients’ functioning.
4.0	Monitoring and Evaluation of Family Plans: determines continued need for/modification/termination of child protective/support services.
5.0	Children’s Emergency Services/After Hours/Holiday Coverage: provides after hours coverage weekends/holidays per office/district protocol, responding to calls from Adult and Children’s Emergency Services.
6.0	Court/Legal Activities: initiates and follows through with legal action for the protection of children.
7.0	Short Term Emergency Services: provides short-term emergency services to a child in need of such services.
8.0	Administrative Responsibilities: performs direct service administrative duties to enhance and improve service delivery, program monitoring and accountability.
9.0	Participates in public awareness/educational/collaboration activities to promote an accurate understanding of the Bureau mission and increase the quality of public private partnerships, formal and informal.
10.0	Actively pursues professional development.
11.0	Frequently and accurately enters all necessary information into Maine Automated Child Welfare Information System.
12.0	Performs tasks of Children’s Services Caseworker and/or Adoption Caseworker as circumstances and operational needs require.