Job Description

Social Case Worker

The Child Welfare Services Division of Denver Human Services is currently seeking an experienced, compassionate, and dedicated individual to serve as a Social Case Worker with the Sexual Abuse Intervention Team in the Child Welfare Services. In this role, you will provide case management, consultation, and education to families impacted by sexual abuse. You will also work with sexual abuse victims and offenders, human trafficking victims, and sexually acting out children and youth under 18 years of age and their families.

Generally, the Sexual Abuse and Trafficking Social Case Worker:

• Performs case management activities involving complex problems/cases, assesses individual and family needs, develops appropriate service and/or treatment plan, and develops wrap around services to maintain children in the home, counseling referrals, and when determined out of home placement monitoring and services
• Conducts needs assessment, ascertains nature and extent of complaint and severity of problems, and interviews defined clients and/or family members to elicit information to determine client's/family's medical, employment, economic, educational, and emotional history
• Evaluates client's needs, interest, motivation, and pattern of responsibility, reviews case records for client and family strengths and needs, socio-economic history, previous treatment, and services experience, and/or special problems and needs. In addition, caseworker's review and discusses case, problems, prognosis, behavior patterns, and needed services with a supervisor or other senior level staff
• Develops and implements a treatment plan that provides a variety of social services and referrals to meet social, behavioral, medical, and/or psychological needs, recommends and refers clients to appropriate support agencies and programs, and provides continuous counseling and crisis intervention to achieve objectives
• Establishes, maintains, and coordinates services and activities with relevant community agencies, monitors and evaluations activities of agencies contracted to provide a variety of social services, and evaluates progress of placements and/or other services
• Represents the department in accordance with Volume 7 and city rules and regulations
• Prepares case records, reports, and documents and compiles with state and federal standards in providing case notes, treatment plans, and evaluations
• Testifies in court as needed by providing expert testimony and preparing comprehensive reports that allow the court to make finding and recommendations that affect court-ordered treatment plans
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Ideal Candidate Summary

We value diversity of ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, gender, religion, language, ability, and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels. You'll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself, your work, the people around you and Denver to the next level.

Our ideal candidate has some or all the following experience, skills, and characteristics:

• Proven experience as a self-starter and exceptional organizational skills
• Certification to provide social case work practice in the State of Colorado
• 2+ years of social case work experience with children, youth, and families
• Flexibility with working with victims of sexual abuse and their offenders
• Experience with providing case management to victims of suspected or confirmed human trafficking

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Requirements as set forth in Colorado Department of Human Services Volume 7 and/or Volume 30 regulations.
• Experience: Professional, internship, or volunteer work experience in a human services related agency, as required by Colorado Department of Human Services Volume 7 and/or Volume 30 regulations
• Education & Experience Equivalency: No substitution of experience for education is permitted. Additional appropriate education may be substituted for experience requirements
• Licensure & Certification: Requires a valid Driver's License at the time of application. Requires post-hire completion of certification requirements to be a social case worker in Child Welfare or Adult Protective Services in accordance with CDHS regulations. Licenses and certifications must be kept current as a condition of employment

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