Child Welfare Caseworker
Vanguard Temporaries, Inc.
Bronx, NY
Protects and develops children by identifying children's needs; providing growth environments; arranging for services.
Duties:
* Identifies children's needs by investigating complaints and referrals; examining home conditions and social environment; evaluating psychological well-being; arranging for physical examinations.
* Meets children's needs by identifying and arranging for services; coaching parents and caregivers.
* Provides foster care families by evaluating foster parents, social environment, and living conditions; monitoring children's care and development; coaching foster parents and siblings; terminating contract with foster parents.
* Provides adoptive families by evaluating adoptive parents, social environment, and living conditions; coaching adoptive parents and siblings; recommending or advising against adoption.
* Prepares for children's birth by coaching unmarried parents; arranging for medical and counseling services.
* Documents actions by completing records.
* Avoids legal challenges by complying with legal requirements.
* Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks.
* Enhances social services and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Skills/Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree Required.
Connecting with Children, Handles Pressure, Objectivity, Confidentiality, Persistence, Proactive, Listening, Verbal Communication, Administrative Writing Skills, Client Relationships, Legal Compliance
About the Company
Vanguard Temporaries, Inc.
For more than 45 years, Vanguard has provided reliable, hands-on recruiting services to the entertainment, finance, banking, media, advertising industries and more. Founded in New York City in 1970, Vanguard provides staffing services throughout the Tri-State area. As accounting and finance, administrative clerical and freelance creative graphic design recruiters, we understand the importance of working together as a team in all aspects of our business. And we communicate openly with staff, clients, and the people that we place. Why Vanguard? We’re a full-services staffing solutions provider. Knowledgeable staff to update employees and clients on industry changes, legal issues, and company information Around-the-clock availability to answer any questions or address concerns. Tenured internal staff operates like a family. We are honest, we care, we are knowledgeable, and we are good at what we do. All of our management are accessible and hands-on members of the team.