Children's Service Worker I

Attends training and observes higher-level Children’s Division staff to gain understanding and skill required to perform assigned duties.

Delivers and/or coordinates protective services involving neglected, abused, or exploited children; foster care; parent services; and/or adoptions.

Records initial and ongoing case activity, maintains case records, and prepares all required reports.

Refers families and children, when necessary, to higher-level staff or other community services.

Evaluates children’s needs and eligibility for social services through personal and collateral interviews.

Assists individuals in utilizing available agency and community resources.

Cooperates with other agencies in serving children and families.

Assists families to attain and maintain their stability through appropriate casework and home management or referral for more skilled counseling treatment.

Provides services which promote healthful child development.

Answers child abuse hotline, takes initial reports, and relays information.

Performs studies of proposed foster and adoptive homes.

Investigates, as directed, reports of neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children.

Receives referrals from juvenile courts, Family Support Division staff, or other professional or private individuals in the community for protection and care of neglected, abused, or exploited children.

Conducts studies and provides treatment services as ordered by a court or after referral by agency staff.

Evaluates the necessity for and facilitates placement of children away from their family home into temporary foster care when neglect, abuse, or exploitation situations make this necessary.

Provides and/or coordinates, as directed, supervision and visitation to children in foster, adoptive, relative or family care, or other placements.

Provides support to foster parents and casework services to biological parents in an effort to return the child to the family home.

Provides and/or coordinates casework services to parents to assist them in their personal adjustment and planning for their child.

Interacts with law enforcement and juvenile officers, other public officials, and community organizations regarding family and children’s issues.

Attends court hearings and meetings related to assigned casework.

Maintains liaison with volunteers at the county level involved in the operation of a volunteer program.

Conducts extensive field work including traveling to client homes, hospitals, alternative placements, court, and transportation of children.

Assigned on-call duty to handle after hours and weekend child abuse and neglect investigations.

Performs work under close supervision of higher-level Children’s Service staff as part of a training process to develop understanding and skill with agency rules, regulations, and procedures.

Performs other related work as assigned.