• Muscogee County, GA


  • $35,388 each year.

  • Long-term.

  • Full-time.
Description

The Georgia Department of Human Being Solutions (DHS) offers a wide variety of human services developed to promote self-sufficiency, security and we/I-being for all Georgians. The department is among the biggest companies in state federal government with a yearly spending plan of $1.8 billion and more than 9,000 staff members. DHS is consisted of 3 Departments: The Department of Aging Solutions, the Department of Kid Assistance Provider, and the Department of Household and Kid Solutions.

About the Department of Household and Kid Solutions

The Department of Household and Kid Solutions, a department of the Georgia Department of Person Providers, is the state’s firm mandated to get reports of supposed kid maltreatment, to figure out the credibility of the claims through an extensive evaluation procedure and to supply protective interventions and preventive/remedial services considered essential to make sure kid security and enhance households. All interventions and services supplied by the Department are anchored upon the following “assisting concepts”:

As the Department of Household and Kid Providers we … Devote to the security of our kids in the choices we make and the actions we take.

  • Empower, enhance and support households on their course to self-reliance.
  • Embrace a servant’s heart with empathy.
  • Offer caring, responsive and reliable service.
  • Listen and react to our constituents, neighborhoods and each other.
  • Work together with our neighborhoods to produce systems of assistance.
  • Establish an expert and effective labor force that never ever stops knowing and growing.

Lined up with these concepts has actually been the Department’s application of a substantial kid well-being system reform effort called the “Plan for Modification”. The effort has actually focused reforming 3 essential and inter-related system elements described as “pillars”.

The very first of these pillars has actually been the advancement of a robust labor force, inclusive of:

  • A formalized new-worker choice procedure created to guarantee that those picked to work as a kid well-being expert have the ability, abilities, understanding and worths needed to successfully serve households.
  • A competency-based brand-new employee training experience offered through the Department’s recently developed “Kid Well-being Training Academy”.
  • A manager coach program that prepares managers to effectively supply front-line kid well-being experts with the encouraging, enlightening and administrative guidance required for their expert advancement.
  • Employee fulfillment studies to notify management about chances to enhance the labor force.

The second of these pillars has actually been the execution of Option Based Casework (SBC), an evidenced-informed practice design that is value-driven, safety-focused, results-based, trauma-responsive and partnership-centered. The 3 primary tenets of SBC are 1) producing collaboration based upon issue agreement in language the household comprehends, 2) focusing that collaboration on the patterns of daily domesticity that straight connect to risks to security, and 3) targeting options particular to the avoidance abilities caretakers require to produce security and decrease threat in those household scenarios.

The 3rd of these pillars has actually been constituent engagement which serves to enhance interaction and partnership in between the Department and its lots of partners to constantly promote educated policy and practice enhancement.

The Plan for Modification will quickly progress beyond a system reform effort to a continuous journey towards “A State of Hope”. A State of Hope is a collective technique in which individuals from all strolls of life share a vision of security and success for each kid, household and person who resides in their neighborhood. It is a location where public and personal companies– nonprofits, philanthropies, federal government, organizations and neighborhoods– work together carefully to attain that vision. As an outcome, kids are more secure, households are more powerful, and neighborhoods are more encouraging locations for all its members to grow.

Seem like a journey you wish to take? That chance and much more might be simply ahead!

Task Description

Pay Grade: G

The Department of Household & Kid Solutions (DFCS) is looking for prospects for the position of Social Providers Professional 1. This position lies at the DFCS workplace in Muscogee County, Georgia.

Under basic guidance, the Social Solutions Expert 1 offers investigative and extensive case management for a caseload including child/adult abuse or disregard. Makes instant and follow-up actions for at danger customers in requirement of protective services and/or positioning.

Functions and Obligations

  • Starts prompt, in person reactions to screened-in reports of supposed kid maltreatment and carries out evaluations that recognize and deal with security issues.
  • Deals with determined security issues by right away establishing and carrying out security strategies.
  • Carries out persistent search efforts to find the child/family when not able to make contact.
  • Carries Out Option Based Casework (SBC).
  • Partners with kid( ren) and moms and dads in the advancement and usage of the Household Performance Contract, Action Strategy, and Household Strategy to accomplish wanted specific and family-level results.
  • Finishes genograms to determine readily available household assistance network.
  • Teams up with neighborhood partners to develop systems of assistance for kids and households.
  • Makes sure that frequency and quality of gos to with kids and households are sufficient to guarantee security, permanency, and wellness.
  • Recognizes the physical, academic, and mental/behavioral health requirements of kids, moms and dads, and foster moms and dads and makes sure recognized requirements were successfully dealt with.
  • Develops permanency objectives for the kid( ren).
  • Makes sure foster care positionings and/or living scenarios are steady and in the very best interests of the kid( ren) and follow attaining recognized permanency objective( s).
  • Makes collective efforts to attain permanency for kids in a prompt way and constant with policies consisted of in the Adoptions and Safe Households Act.
  • Makes sure that brother or sisters in foster care are positioned together unless a separation is essential to satisfy the requirements of among the brother or sisters.
  • Preserves kid’s connections to his/her community, neighborhood, faith, extended household, people, school, and good friends.
  • Promotes, supports, and otherwise preserves a favorable and nurturing relationship in between the kid( ren) in care and their biological parents/caretakers by motivating and assisting in activities and interactions beyond visitation.
  • Files case management activities within timespan developed by policy.
  • Commemorates favorable results with kid( ren) and household.
  • Makes use of independently owned car for job-related travel and responsibilities (consisting of transport of kids).
  • Regularly serves on after-hours on-call responsibility.
  • Welcomes continuous knowing and expert advancement chances.

Minimum Certifications

  • Bachelor’s degree from a recognized college or university.
  • Should have trusted transport, evidence of vehicle insurance coverage, a legitimate state-issued chauffeur’s license, and an appropriate driving history record.

Note:

  • Applicants need to pass the basic firm screening procedure for the position in which they are worked with in order to preserve the position.
  • Although company staff members are licensed to telework briefly, staff members go through be called into the workplace as required.

Extra Info

Work Details

Present State workers go through State Worker Board guidelines concerning wage.

The Georgia Department of Human Being Provider (DHS) accepts instructional credential acknowledged by the Council for College Accreditation (CHEA) and/or the United States Department of Education (DOE) will be thought about. DHS will get in touch with universities to validate degree, diploma, licensure, and so on

Lawbreaker Background Checks/Applicant Personal Privacy Rights

All candidates might go through a drug screen, an automobile report check and might be needed to send finger prints to look for the presence of criminal history details through the Georgia Bureau of Examination and the Federal Bureau of Examination. Candidates deserve to challenge the contents of any criminal history record gotten for the function of work with DHS. For a description of these rights, please read, “Candidate Personal Privacy Rights” at: (Download PDF reader)

NON-CRIMINAL JUSTICE CANDIDATE’S PERSONAL PRIVACY RIGHTS

NON-CRIMINAL JUSTICE CANDIDATE’S PERSONAL PRIVACY RIGHTS As a candidate that is the topic of a Georgia just or a Georgia and Federal Bureau of Examination

As a staff member of DHS, in case of a recognized emergency situation you might be needed, as a condition of work, to help in fulfilling the emergency situation duties of the department.

DHS is a Level Playing Field Company

It is the policy of DHS to supply equivalent job opportunity (EEO) to all individuals despite age, color, nationwide origin, citizenship status, physical or psychological special needs, race, religious beliefs, creed, gender, sex, sexual preference, gender identity and/or expression, hereditary info, marital status, status with regard to public support, veteran status, or any other particular secured by federal, state or regional law.

Due to the volume of applications gotten, we are not able to offer details on application status by phone or email. All certified candidates will be thought about however might not always get an interview. Picked candidates will be called by the working with firm for next actions in the choice procedure. Candidates who are not picked will not get notice.

This position goes through close at any time when a satisfying candidate swimming pool has actually been determined.

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