Social Worker

Summary Client Care Coordinator will assess each family within a shelter environment to understand their strengths and determine service needs

Responsibilities

• Completes comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment with each family to understand strengths and service needs
• Facilitates a team review of the biopsychosocial assessment
• Provides shortterm counseling crisis intervention risk assessment safety planning and psychoeducation (not psychotherapy)
• Conducts risk assessments
• Collaborates with the Administration for Childrens Services (ACS) and/or preventive service agencies when a childs welfare is involved
• Participates in ACS conferences acting as an advocate for families
• Makes referrals and appropriate community linkages
• Facilitates group work (eg with young people with fathers etc)
• Communicates and collaborates with service providers to enhance engagement and ensure quality services
• Coordinates safety planning when needed
• Prepares families and children to accept services
• Provides educational trainings to staff
• Facilitates quarterly family meetings with shelter staff to discuss planning efforts and progress
• Prepares exit packets for families moving to permanent housing
• In the event of an emergency Essential Employees are required to report to work as scheduled
• Duties and responsibilities are subject to change based upon assessment of company needs

Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Social Work from an accredited school of Social Work
• Must be a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) within year of hire
• Knowledge of child and adolescent development emotional/behavioral health mental health parentchild relationships family dynamics and diagnostic classification
• Strong expertise in strengthbased solutionfocused and familycentered practice
• Knowledge of guidelines policies and regulations relating to child welfare safety permanency and wellness
• Knowledge and experience with groupwork as well as working with diverse cultures and ethnicities
• Must be able to communicate effectively (verbally and in writing)
• Bilingual English/Spanish is strongly preferredd