Social Work Manager

Salary : $37.60 Hourly

Location : Sturgeon Bay, WI

Job Type : Full Time

Job Number : 00840

Department : Health & Human Services Child & Family Services

Opening Date : 01 / 24 / 2025

Closing Date : 2 / 9 / 2025 11 : 59 PM Central

General Summary of Position

Are you a compassionate leader with a commitment to excellence in child protection and youth justice services? Join our team as a Social Work Manager , where you'll guide a dedicated group of professionals delivering critical services like Child Protective Services, Youth Justice, Kinship Care, and Foster Care. In this pivotal role, you'll foster staff development, ensure alignment with policies and laws, and collaborate with community partners to support children and families. If you thrive on creating meaningful impact through leadership, strategic program implementation, and high professional standards, we want to hear from you!

Within this position, you will lead a team of dedicated social workers serving children and families in child protection and youth justice services. The manager develops and implements strategies for programs like Child Protective Services, Youth Justice, Kinship Care, and Foster Care, ensuring services are delivered effectively and in alignment with agency policies, procedures, and applicable laws. Through supervision, case consultation, and team meetings, the manager fosters staff growth and models excellence in social work practice. Clear, accurate communication and a commitment to high professional standards are essential to this role.

Essential & General Job Functions

Essential Job Functions

• Provides consistent and effective individual and group supervision that assists staff with organizing field and office work related to Child Protection. Including; Access / Initial Assessment, Targeted Safety Services, Ongoing Case Management, Out of Home Care, and case closures.
• Supervises Youth Justice services, acts as the Chief Juvenile Court Intake Worker for Door County, as defined by Wis. Stats. 938.06 (3) and 938.067 (9). Also provides supervision regarding Restitution and Community Service.
• Reviews and approves screening recommendations made by workers in response to Child Protection, Child Welfare, and Youth Justice reports; assigns cases to the appropriate staff member(s).
• Monitors program budgets and ensures programs operate within available fiscal limits; reviews and approves expenditures.
• Acts as the official liaison between Health & Human Services, the District Attorney, the Court system, law enforcement, schools, health services, and related contracted programs and community partners.
• Manages the appeals process for Substantiated Child Maltreatment decisions, from initial notification letters through formal hearings, as required.
• Schedules and assigns custody intake coverage, including daytime and evening / weekend / holiday hours.
• Reviews and redacts any protected information in case records in response to official requests for records.
• Serves as a member of the Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Leadership Team helping assure collaboration and progress on agency goals.
• Approves all client documentation in the e-WiSACWIS computer database.
• Maintains qualitative and quantitative standards for staff performance, evaluates staff performance, and recommends personnel actions, as needed.

General Job Functions

Training, Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Required Training and Experience

1. Graduate of an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's Degree in social work or closely related field. Master's Degree preferred.

2. Certification or eligibility for certification as a Social Worker in the State of Wisconsin, preferably at the Advanced Practice level or higher.

3. Three (3) years of work as a social worker in a public and / or voluntary social service agency, maintaining acceptable standards.

4. At least 25 hours of training in social work supervision as provided by the N.E.W. Partnership for Children and Families - Child Welfare Supervisor sequence is preferred.

Preferred Training and Experience

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities Required

Benefits

Benefits to promote employee / family wellness (full time status) :

Benefits to promote work / life balance (full time status) :

Door County is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Employees hired to work a full time schedule (40 hours per week) are eligible for full time benefits .

Benefits to promote employee / family wellness (full time status) :

Benefits to promote work / life balance (full time status) :

Are you a graduate of an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's Degree in social work or closely related field?

Are you certified or eligible for certification as a Social Worker in the State of Wisconsin?

Have you successfully completed three (3) years of work as a social worker in a public and / or voluntary social service agency, maintaining acceptable standards?

Have you completed at least 25 hours of training in the social work supervision as provided by the N.E.W. Partnership for Children and Families?

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