Child Welfare Specialist IV- Resource Recruitment

This position is located in Lawton, Oklahoma

Child Welfare Specialist IV H23D

Annual Salary: $52,217.89 + Full State Employee Benefits

Travel is EXTENSIVE.  Must possess a valid driver's license and maintain required car insurance.  

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree plus one year of experience in professional social work in child welfare programs.
• OR a Bachelors Degree plus two years experience as a Child Welfare Specialist.
• OR Three years of experience as a Child Welfare Specialist.

Recruitment staff actively seeks out prospective foster and adoptive families who have the ability to care for children.

        Job Responsibilities

• Serves as lead worker or backup supervisor to a unit of lower-level Child Welfare Specialists.
• Serves as team leader in case staff meetings, provide on-going case consultation and advise and train lower level Child Welfare Specialists in case management and interpretation of policies and procedures.
• Carry complex and difficult caseloads, or are assigned responsibilities involving case consultation.
• Conduct community engagement to find foster and adoptive families.
• Meet with prospective foster and adoptive families to establish communication.
• Oversee the approval process for prospective foster families.  Approve families according to established standards for the type of care provided.
• Provide analysis and reporting on the number of new foster families.

 If you have questions, please contact [email protected]

OKDHS is a Fair Chance Employer.

This is a position in the Oklahoma Civil Service.

Announcement Number: 24-BC326

83010572/JR39886