About the role

  • Bilingual Social Worker handling Foster and Adoption cases for API families with clinical support. Collaborating with outreach and community resources for culturally appropriate services.

Responsibilities

  • Carry and assist with FFA and Adoption case management
  • Conducts placements and in home visits to complete case records and reports in a timely manner
  • Responds to emergency calls; completes required reports according to rules & regulations
  • Provides clinical support services and culturally appropriate referrals to relevant community services and resources
  • Monitors RF activities and court ordered visits between foster children and their biological family members to ensure compliance with all program standards and policies
  • Conducts RFA and adoption suitability home assessment interviews and write reports
  • Conduct or facilitate parenting education, support groups, and other program deliverables
  • Monitor contractual deliverables, fulfill reporting duties, and attend contract/partner meetings
  • Collaborates with outreach team on recruitment and training of potential resource and adoptive families
  • Potential opportunity to carry a small caseload of mental health service clients
  • Other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • Bilingual in API language required
  • Master’s Degree in Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, required
  • Must be willing to work some evenings and weekends and to serve on the emergency on-call rotation
  • Must have driver’s license, auto insurance, and be willing to drive regularly
  • Minimum 2 years’ experience in child welfare preferred
  • Experience in program coordination, foster care, adoptions, or DCFS a plus
  • Strong ties to API community and/or experience working with API immigrant populations a plus

Benefits

  • Professional Development Fund
  • Life Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Bonus based on performance
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

Job title

Bilingual Foster & Adoption Social Worker

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

$50,000 - $65,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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