social services specialist iii resume example

~Family Reunification/Family Maintenance Unit In-Charge Social Worker

~Provide clinical case management services for children and families

~Carry caseload of up to 55 cases

~Provide comprehensive supervision to children and families receiving

Maintain home visits to children in foster/relative placement, pre-adoptive placement, and/or home of parent

~Prepare and submit reports and legal notices to Juvenile Dependency Court

~Provide comprehensive supervision to children and families receiving services including family reunification, family maintenance, permanency planning, extended foster care, and ICPC courtesy supervision

~Monitor clients' compliance with Court Orders

~Conduct investigative interviews, make risk assessments and develop intervention plans to ensure child safety

~Collaborate with community agencies, Department of Mental Health staff, attorneys, law enforcement/probation agencies, education professionals, and medical professionals

~Maintain case documentation in the statewide computer based Child Welfare Service/Case Management System

~Act as casework consultant to staff members without professional training

~Maintain casework records, and prepare reports and correspondences

~08/2006-10/2006 In-Charge Children's Social Services Supervisor

~Plan, assign, and direct the work of a professional unit of Social Services Specialists

~Children's social worker providing comprehensive supervision and home visits to children in agency licensed foster placements

~Develop intensive long or short term case plans

Maintain case documentation in agency computer based system

~Conduct investigative interviews and make risk assessments and develop intervention plans to ensure child safety

~Monitor licensed foster homes/caregivers for compliance with Community Care Licensing regulations

~Prepare status review reports and case plans

~Collaborate with the Los Angeles County DCFS, education, mental health, and medical professionals

~Transport children and supervise child/family visitation

~Provide comprehensive clinical case management services for children and families

~Provide comprehensive supervision to children and families receiving services including family reunification, family maintenance, permanency planning, extended foster care

~Monitor clients' compliance with Juvenile Dependency Court orders

~Prepare and submit reports and legal notices to Juvenile Dependency Court

~Develop intensive long or short term case plans including emancipation transition case plans

~Collaborate with community agencies, department of mental health staff, attorneys, law enforcement/probation agencies, education professionals and medical professionals

~Conduct investigative interviews, make risk assessments and develop intervention plans to ensure child safety

~Maintain case documentation in the statewide computer based Child Welfare Services/Case Management System

~Act as casework consultant to staff members without professional training

~interpret public social service rules, regulations, and policies to clients and to the public

~Maintain casework records, and prepare reports and correspondences

~Provide supervision and assistance to colleagues as Lead Social Worker and Acting Supervising Children's Social Wo, including conducting case conferences, reviewing, editing, and approving Court reports and case plans, and preparing management tracking reports

~Served as Acting Special Assistant as a Board Liaison between the DCFS and the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, duties included addressing the concerns of Board constituents, developing assignments to regional administrators and preparing follow up reports to the Board of Supervisors.