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Are you looking to use your skills to better the lives of children in Foster Care? 

Are you hoping to join a team of talented and passionate social workers? 

If you answered yes to this, then JRI Foster Care is looking for you! 

Who we are looking for: 

Are you the Case Manager we have been looking for? JRI’s Intensive Foster Care program provides youth and families with environments of safety and care that aim to enhance stability and long-term success, through both foster care, adoption supports, and training opportunities. Our staff provide culturally responsive, trauma informed, best practice treatment care to a diverse and robust community, servicing a wide variety of racial, cultural, linguistic and ethnic backgrounds. We hope to find a talented social worker to be in the case manager role supporting children and foster families in meeting their goals.  

JRI provides the training so that: 

• YOU will provide oversight and clinical case management services to our foster homes.
• YOU will provide the children, families and young people we serve with the most culturally responsive, trauma informed, best practice treatment available.
• YOU will participate in a staff rotation for after-hour on-call crisis management (primarily via phone and occasional face-to-face contact).
• YOU will conduct home visits and interviews with foster families.
• YOU will complete all required case documentation.

Bilingual a plus!! We offer a bilingual bonus to any candidate who speaks, reads and writes in a different language other than English. 

Why JRI? 

• Be who you are! JRI is strongly committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and welcoming environment for our employees and the people we serve.
• Hear from a Foster Care staff person about their role here! https://fb.watch/rc87YCp-na/ 
• Access to our excellent Blue Cross medical and Delta Dental benefits.
• Retirement benefits including 401K matched up to $800 a year and pension after 5 years of employment.
• Professional development opportunities such as tuition reimbursement up to almost $4,000 per year and discounted tuition rates to select partnership colleges and universities!
• Wellness benefits including access to employee resource groups (including multicultural affinity groups, LGBTQIA+ advocacy, employee engagement groups, etc.), self-care resources, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Generous paid time off up to 19 days for full time employees in your first year and much more!

Requirements: 

• Candidates should have Bachelor’s degree in social work, or human services related field.
• Candidates must have a LSWA/LSW or be able to attain a license within 6 months of hire.
• Candidates should have some clinical experience including (or a willingness to learn): knowledge of trauma; attachment; child abuse and neglect; child development; family systems and behavior management.
• Candidates with knowledge of the foster care and the Child Welfare/DYS systems are preferred.
• Candidates should be comfortable working with DYS and DCF clients/systems.
• Candidates must have an active driver’s license, appropriate driving record, access to an insured automobile, and a wiliness to travel as visits to client homes and communities is required. Background and driving record checks will be performed.

JRI is strongly committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and welcoming environment for our employees and the people we serve. Persons from diverse backgrounds including women, communities of color, the LGBTQIA+ community and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. JRI is an equal opportunity employer.

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