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Children's Services Caseworker

1.0	Review/Reassessment: pulls together and analyzes information gathered to date and continues with planning, services, activities and decision making related to child safety, permanency and well-being.
2.0	Case Planning: determines case objectives and goals and develops a case plan for their attainment.
3.0	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.
4.0	Treatment and Service Provision: obtains/provides services/resources to improve/enhance the clients’ functioning.
5.0	Monitoring and Evaluation of both Family and Child Plans: monitors progress in case plan objectives and actions and reassesses and revises case plan as necessary.
6.0	Court/Legal Activities: initiates/follows through and supports legal action for the protection of children.
7.0	Children’s Emergency Services/After Hours/Holiday Coverage: provides after hours weekends/nights per office/district protocol, responding to calls from Adult and Children’s Emergency Services.
8.0	Placement: places child in stable living arrangements/adoption.
9.0	Financial Services: ensures the child and caretakers receive benefits.
10.0	Foster/Adoptive Parenting Orientation: informs and prepares selected people for foster/adoptive parenting.
11.0	Administrative Responsibilities: performs direct service administrative duties to enhance and improve service delivery, program monitoring and accountability.
12.0	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.
13.0	Actively pursues professional development.
14.0	Frequently and accurately enters all necessary information into MACWIS.
15.0	Performs tasks of Children’s Services Caseworker and/or Adoption Caseworker as circumstances and operational needs require.