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 as a Child Welfare Specialist;
- 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
Recruitment staff actively seek out prospective foster and adoptive families who have the ability to care for children.
- Serve as lead worker or backup supervisor to a unit of lower-level Child Welfare Specialists.
- Serve 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.
- Conduct community engagement to find foster and adoptive families.
- Meet with prospective foster and adoptive families to establish communication.
- Oversee the approval process for prospective foster families. Approve families according to established standards for the type of care provided.
- Provide analysis and report on the number of new foster families.
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If you have questions, please contact DHS.Careers@okdhs.org
OKDHS is a Fair Chance Employer.
This is a position in the Oklahoma Civil Service.
Announcement Number: 26-BC263
83009373/JR67358
