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Social Worker - Treatment Foster Care
$54k-68k (estimate)
Full Time | Social & Legal Services
2 Days Ago
Nexus Family Healing is Hiring a Social Worker - Treatment Foster Care Near Devils Lake, ND
Job Details
DescriptionNexus-PATH is located across North Dakota and offers mental health services, outpatient clinical services, and treatment foster care.
We have an opportunity to hire a full-time Treatment & Foster Care Social Worker in our Devil's Lake, ND Nexus-PATH office!
Our Social Worker recruits, orients, and supervises the work of Nexus-PATH resource families while providing intake services and comprehensive case management for children with special needs and families.
Responsibilities
Keyword: Social Work
DescriptionNexus-PATH is located across North Dakota and offers mental health services, outpatient clinical services, and treatment foster care.
We have an opportunity to hire a full-time Treatment & Foster Care Social Worker in our Devil's Lake, ND Nexus-PATH office!
Our Social Worker recruits, orients, and supervises the work of Nexus-PATH resource families while providing intake services and comprehensive case management for children with special needs and families.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, license, train, supervise, and provide ongoing assessment to resource families to ensure quality care consistent with regulatory agencies (i.e. DHS, COA, FFTA).
- Participate in the development and implementation of local, regional and state plans for recruiting and retaining resource families.
- Follow state and agency guidelines for conducting family/homestudy, physical environment inspection and criminal background checks and provide required documentation for initial and ongoing licensing.
- Coordinate required orientation and ongoing education and skill development for resource families.
- Supervise resource families’ interaction with foster child, child’s family, treatment team members and collateral contacts.
- Monitor and evaluate resource families’ activities to ensure compliance with agency and state standards. Submit critical incident reports and develop and implement corrective action plans as required.
- Facilitate required team/unit meetings and participate in other resource families related activities.
- Provide coordination of all tasks required to meet the treatment needs and best interests of service recipients
- Complete a systemic assessment of the needs of the child and family.
- Establish service parameters with legal custodian as child’s needs dictate.
- Provide complete and required documentation, within established time lines relating to case management and treatment planning.
- Implement treatment services to meet the needs and goals of the children and families utilizing quality case management practice to provide for the best interest of the child and family.
- Provide direction to other team members when applicable and make recommendations for discharge, finalization and permanency.
- Advocate for the development and maintenance of funding and resources to meet youth and family needs at local, state and national levels.
- Develop and maintain community contacts to promote Nexus-PATH and collaborative efforts.
- Provide crisis intervention as needed to maintain safety and provide for the best interest of the child and foster family.
- Integrates trauma informed care principles into practice by sharing knowledge and understanding of trauma with the child, foster family and relevant team members.
- Routinely screens for trauma exposure and related symptoms and demonstrates competence in using screening tool results to enhance service provision.
- Routinely makes resources available and shares knowledge with foster families and providers on trauma exposure, its impact, and trauma-focused treatment.
- Engages in efforts to strengthen the resilience and protective factors of children and families impacted by and vulnerable to trauma.
- Emphasizes continuity of care and collaboration across child-service systems.
- Understand the potential for secondary traumatic stress and practices self-care strategies to mitigate these effects.
- Meet standards for productivity and caseload size while maintaining appropriate documentation and files
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Work required
- Current ND social work licensure required (LBSW) or ability to gain one within 6 months
- Experience in foster care, adoptions and/or family-based service preferred
- Valid driver’s license required. Must meet state regulating agency driving requirements, maintain auto insurance and pass corporate insurance eligibility standards
- Competitive Salary Offered
- Comprehensive benefit package
- Generous Paid Time Off
- HOLIDAY's Paid
- Health Insurance
- Vision and Dental
- 401K
- NEW - Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
- NEW - Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family
- NEW – Carrot Fertility Benefit
- Tuition assistance and training opportunities
- Innovation: Leading the way and implementing creative, cutting-edge ideas and approaches
- Compassion: Listening, honoring differences, and showing respect, kindness, empathy care, and concern.
- Agility: Exhibiting flexibility and adapting quickly
- Responsiveness: Being quick, positive, and accurate
- Excellence: Demonstrating quality results that surpass ordinary standards
Keyword: Social Work
Job Summary
JOB TYPE
Full Time
INDUSTRY
Social & Legal Services
SALARY
$54k-68k (estimate)
POST DATE
07/03/2024
EXPIRATION DATE
07/31/2024
WEBSITE
nexusfamilyhealing.org
HEADQUARTERS
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
SIZE
100 - 200
FOUNDED
1972
REVENUE
$10M - $50M
INDUSTRY
Social & Legal Services
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About Nexus Family Healing
Nexus Family Healing (formerly Nexus) is a national nonprofit mental health organization that restores hope for thousands of children and families who come to us for outpatient and community mental health services, foster care and adoption, and residential treatment. For over 45 years, our network of agencies has used innovative, personalized approaches to heal trauma, break cycles of harm, and reshape futures. We are nationally recognized as a progressive leader in youth and family healing, and were more committed than ever to continue this work. We believe every child is worth it and every ...family matters.
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