Social Worker Supervisor

Company: Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County
Location: San Jose, CA
Status: Full-Time
PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
The Refugee Foster Care (RFC) program provides culturally and linguistically appropriate child welfare, foster care, and independent living services to unaccompanied youth in the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) Program. The URM Program served youth in the U.S. who are refugees, Cuban/Haitian entrants, asylees, victims of human trafficking who have an ORR eligibility letter, U-visa holders, and youth who have received Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. RFC supports youth with housing, education, health, medical, immigration, mental health, independent living services, and with family reunification efforts when possible. RFC uses strength-based, trauma-informed, and culturally relevant models to build and expand on a youth’s natural resources.
GENERAL NATURE OF POSITION:
The Social Work Supervisor oversees a team of social workers and case managers who support the growth and development of clients in the Refugee Foster Care (RFC) Program, and empower clients in their overall social, educational, recreational, cultural, and psychological functioning. This position functions with a high degree of independent accountability, in accord with professional and ethical standards, organizational policies, and specific contractual requirements. This position is part of the management team working with a multi-disciplinary team and requires a high degree of adaptability, flexibility, and collaborative work.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Management

• Oversee the welfare of children and youth in the program by working collaboratively with the child, resource parent(s), service providers, and RFC team members.

• Collaborate with the Placement Team in the coordination of the reception and placement of a client.

• Review referrals and make recommendations for client care based on staff capacity.

• Make best interest determinations for clients in the program that are related to physical health, placement, mental health, education and housing.

• Provide support services to approved resource parents and respite care providers.

• Work with an interdisciplinary team (social workers, mental health clinicians, educators, doctors, legal representatives, etc.) to promote the best interest of clients.

• Serve as a member of the Placement Coordination Team.

• Assist or participate in resource family recruitment, monthly ILP class, resource parent certification training, child and family team meetings, and other program-related meetings and events, as needed.

• Respond to child abuse and neglect allegations in accordance with CA state laws.

• Participate in on-call rotation.

• Represent the program in external relations, as needed.

Supervision

• Provide orientation and training of new social workers, case managers, and other new hires.

• Review and oversee social worker and case manager staff case work, including but not limited to, providing weekly 1:1 supervision.

• Provide clinical supervision for BBS eligible staff, if licensed and able to provide clinical supervision.

• Arrange, develop, facilitate or lead staff trainings required for work performance and/or professional development such as, but not limited to, STM (Staff Training Meetings).

• Supervise the development of Services Plans that identify clients’ overall needs and goals.

• Supervise, review, edit, and conduct home studies to determine the suitability of potential resource parents and foster care placements.

• Supervise and consult with staff as they conduct monthly home visits to determine the appropriateness of current placement or the need to change placement.

• Supervise staff in the coordination of services with other professionals and agencies involved with the clients, e.g. teachers, pastors, physicians, employers, social workers, partner agencies, Administrative Review panel, etc.

• Provide crisis intervention for clients and resource parents.

• Review and submit significant incident reports to appropriate agencies.

• Ensure assigned staff performs their duties in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures, including but not limited to, maintaining meticulous files on clients to ensure completion of all core services and contract requirements.

• Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• A Master’s Degree from an accredited or state approved graduate school in social work or social welfare, marriage, family and child counseling, child psychology, child development, counseling psychology or social psychology.

• Three years of full-time social work or casework employment in the field of family or child welfare services; or two years of full-time social work or casework employment in a licensed foster family or adoption agency.

• A minimum of one year working with immigrants and/or refugee in a multi-cultural environment.

• Knowledge of CA State child welfare services regulations.

• Meets minimum requirements listed in CCL 88065.2.

• Excellent oral and written English skills.

• Automobile and valid CA driver’s license.

• Auto liability coverage according to agency requirements.

• Excellent computers skills: MS Office (all apps).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Approval by the BBS to provide clinical supervision strongly preferred.

• LCSW or LMFT strongly preferred.

• Five plus years of full-time social work or casework employment in the field of family or child welfare services, licensed foster family or adoption agency.

• Experience working with unaccompanied children in federal custody.

• Overseas experience in psychosocial, development or protection programs.

• Extensive cross-cultural experience and ability to work well with diverse population.

• Multi-lingual in one or more language commonly spoken by youth in the URM Program (Spanish, Arabic, French, Tigrinya, Amharic, Kiswahili, Hindi, Turkish, Farsi, Nepali)

HOURS: Hours will be based on client and resource family availability. Program staff are required to work during one Tuesday night per month and at least one Saturday per month.
TRAVEL: Bay area and occasional out of state travel required.
TO APPLY: Please submit resume to [email protected] and use the job position title as the subject line.
This position description intends to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. It is not intended to include all duties and responsibilities. The order in which duties and responsibilities are listed is not significant. Because of a need to remain responsive to the needs of our clients and our Agency’s operations, responsibilities may be modified at any time.
Catholic Charities is a non-profit, non-discriminatory service organization and employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation or disability. Persons receiving services in our programs are entitled to freedom from harassment and retaliation and reasonable accommodation for qualified disabilities.

Job Type: Full-time