CWS Team Leader - Family Preservations / 61013148

Do you have a passion to provide meaningful contributions to your community? Would you like to be part of an organization whose central mission is helping to protect, stabilize and strengthen the lives of South Carolina's children, families, and vulnerable adults? If so, the SC Department of Social Services has the right job opportunity for you! 

• The Child Welfare Services Team Leader - Family Preservations provides direct supervision to case managers in Child Welfare Service area of Foster Care.  Ensures accountability of case managers by conducting case consultations, coaching, training and providing support in accordance with DSS Policy, Agency Mission and GPS Practice Model.  Performs on-call duties and provides support to on-call staff. 

• Promotes safety, permanency and well-being by ensuring fidelity to policy and procedures and conducting case consultation and case reviews, facilitating meetings, reviewing data reports, monitoring policy changes, and ensuring staff attendance in mandatory trainings.

• Ensures completion of Family Advocacy and Support Tool (FAST) assessments, Child and Family Team meetings, Family Permanency Plans and referrals in accordance with DSS Policy. Ensures CAPSS reflects up to date case information and quality documentation. Ensures timely referrals for services and least intrusive interventions are used with families to address needs identified and maintain the safety of children. Ensures case manager facilitates and/or participates in initial child and family team meetings.

• Promotes timely permanency by providing case consultation per policy to assess ongoing risks and safety concerns and family engagement; works with case managers to ensure permanency resources are explored at the onset of agency involvement and ongoing.  Ensures timely court packets are submitted, monitors adherence to court orders, identifies and addresses legal barriers that impact timely permanency and legal proceedings when safety concerns require court intervention.

• Authentically engages and works collaboratively with child welfare staff, families and other professionals with empathy, respect and leadership. Ensures concerted efforts to locate non-custodial parents and kinship support is ongoing. Responds timely and professionally to constituent inquiries.

• Provides case managers with EPMS planning and evaluation plans. Participates in hiring and training of all new employees, promotes equal opportunity, develops a diverse workforce, and gives fair opportunity to all staff. Completes performance and practice evaluations on direct reports biannually and upon request for level ascension. Timely submits evaluations for level ascension.

• Maintains child welfare certification. Completes 20 hours of training yearly to include certifications that are required yearly. 

• Maintains an active routine of self-care and pursues support when necessary to minimize the threat of secondary trauma to physical and mental health. Understands the impact of trauma on families and secondary trauma on child welfare staff and applies principles to support families and staff.

• Participates in Red Cross training and shelter duty or other emergency shelter duty/services as directed.
   

•  Other duties as assigned. 

• Health, Dental, Vision, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and Children
• 15 days annual (vacation) leave per year
• 15 days sick leave per year
• 13 paid holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• State Retirement Plan and Deferred Compensation Program

Salary : $49,307 - $72,134