What are the responsibilities and job description for the Social Worker position at PROGRESSIVE LIFE CENTER?
Progressive Life Center, Inc. (PLC) is a Black-led organization, providing culturally-sensitivity human services to children, youth and families in the District of Columbia and surrounding Maryland, throughout Greater Philadelphia, and in most of Delaware. PLC’s array of community-based services includes foster care and adoption, independent living for youth aging out of foster care, family preservation, juvenile diversion, and parenting skills training. For more than two decades, PLC has earned accreditation from the prestigious Council on Accreditation (COA) for its demonstration of excellence in the delivery of services and achievement of outcomes. Learn more at plcCommunity.org.
Program Summary
The Foster Care program provides comprehensive long-term temporary child placement services. Children from birth to twenty-years old are placed in the care of trained and certified families while they heal, adjust, and prepare for a permanent home. While the program collaborates with our loving foster families to ensure that the welfare of each child in our care is the primary concern, the ultimate goal remains a permanent placement—reunification with a biological parent, adoption, or transition to independent.
Job Responsibilities
- Provide individual and family therapeutic intervention to clients and families.
- Provide case management services.
- Maintain confidential and comprehensive clinical case files for each assigned client.
- Provide relevant crisis intervention and advocacy services.
- Conduct intakes an matching of new referrals.
- Conduct psychosocial assessments and home studies.
- Assist clients with the identifying and utilizing appropriate community resources.
- Participate in clinical training, clinical supervision, and other educational activities as scheduled.
- Enter and maintain accurate data in databases.
- Provide 24 hour 7 days a week coverage via cellular device.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors or master’s degree in Social Work from an accredited college or university.
- Valid MD Licensed Bachelor Social Worker or Licensed Master Social Worker licensure.
- Two (2) years child welfare experience.
- Proficiency in oral and written communication.
- Bilingual in English/Spanish is desirable.
- Skills in formulating diagnostic statements, treatment plans, and permanency plans.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite.
- Owner of reliable vehicle.
- Certificate in NTUTM Service Delivery Model within one (1) year of hire.
Physical Demands
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
- Ability to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
- Ability to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery.
- Ability to position self to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Ability to frequently communicate with employees/customers/clients; and must be able to exchange accurate information by perceiving the nature of sound, near and far vision, depth perception, providing oral and written information.
- Ability to frequently move files weighing up to 20 pounds throughout the office space.
- Ability to be on call and often respond to situations during off hours which can disrupt normal sleep patterns and cause fatigue.
- Ability to physically restrain children when required and protect him/her in physically confrontational situations.
- Ability to face a significant amount of emotional stress which can cause related physical stress.
- In cases of child relocation, the incumbent may be required to assist the child by carrying belongings and must often lift, carry and/or comfort small children.
Work Environment
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Normal office environment or residential facility, but also may travel locally to visit clients within their homes, meet with service providers, and/or attend meetings: schools, hospitals, mental health clinics, private practices, prisons, corporations, and numerous public and private
agencies.
Benefits
We offer exceptional benefits package with an opportunity for personal and professional growth, which include the following:
- Fringe Benefits – health, dental, vision, retirement fund, and more...
- Clinical Training with Continuing Education Units.
- Hybrid Work Schedule
Equal Opportunity Employer
PLC is an equal opportunity employer. PLC does not discriminate in employment on account of race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation, military status, or other non-merit-based factors.
