ChildNet Youth& Family Services, Inc. is currently recruiting a Social Worker for our Foster Family Network program located in Bakersfield, CA.
Foster Family Network (FFN), provides various support services to foster children and their biological families, as well as support to resource parents.
The FFN Social Worker is responsible for providing social services to resource parents, foster children and their biological families. These services include supervision of foster families, participation in the placed child's academic program, development of Needs and Services plans, and coordination of medical and psychological services for the placed child. The Social Worker must be available by cell phone to ChildNet management and resource families 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Social Worker responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Provide in-home support and guidance for resource families and foster children, including intensive services foster care and therapeutic foster care services.
- Supervise placement of foster children, including regular visits/direct contact with the children and resource parent. Maintain accurate notes about interactions with each foster child and resource parent.
- Monitor the health, educational, religious, recreational, social, emotional, and psychological needs of each assigned child and coordinate services with available community resources.
- Develop and maintain a network of medical and psychological resources for foster children in the area of placement.
- Monitor visitation between foster child and biological family when court ordered.
- Provide referrals to family therapy resources for the foster child and biological family.
- Monitor current status of educational planning and academic functioning of each assigned foster child. Represent the foster child in the educational setting whenever necessary.
- Participate in child and family team meetings in order to discuss individual cases, develop treatment goals, or plan for eventual family reunification (where appropriate).
- Develop and update Needs and Services Plans for each case.
- Maintain current required paperwork and files for assigned foster children and resource parents.
- Submit all required reports within required time frames to the County placing agency.
- Monitor adherence to licensing regulations for each assigned resource home. This includes driving to each home and physically surveying and supervising the care and treatment of each child in the home.
- Obtain and provide resource parents with required admission information upon initial placement.
- Transport clients when required.
- Interact and coordinate with other ChildNet departments and programs to coordinate the best possible services for clients.
- Perform any other duties as assigned.