Social Worker

Job Description

Job Description

Progressive Life Center, Inc. (PLC) is an organization, providing culturally-sensitivity human services to children, youth and families in the District of Columbia and surrounding Maryland, throughout Greater Philadelphia, and in most of Delaware. PLC’s array of community-based services includes foster care and adoption, independent living for youth aging out of foster care, family preservation, juvenile diversion, and parenting skills training. For more than two decades, PLC has earned accreditation from the prestigious Council on Accreditation (COA) for its demonstration of excellence in the delivery of services and achievement of outcomes. Learn more at plcCommunity.org .

Program Summary

The Foster Care program provides comprehensive long-term temporary child placement services. Children from birth to twenty-years old are placed in the care of trained and certified families while they heal, adjust, and prepare for a permanent home.   While the program collaborates with our loving foster families to ensure that the welfare of each child in our care is the primary concern, the ultimate goal remains a permanent placement—reunification with a biological parent, adoption, or transition to independent.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide individual and family therapeutic intervention to clients and families.
• Provide case management services.
• Maintain confidential and comprehensive clinical case files for each assigned client.
• Provide relevant crisis intervention and advocacy services.
• Conduct intakes an matching of new referrals.
• Conduct psychosocial assessments and home studies.
• Assist clients with the identifying and utilizing appropriate community resources.
• Participate in clinical training, clinical supervision, and other educational activities as scheduled.
• Enter and maintain accurate data in databases.
• Provide 24 hour 7 days a week coverage via cellular device.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications :

Physical Demands

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment

agencies.

Benefits

We offer exceptional benefits package with an opportunity for personal and professional growth, which include the following :

Equal Opportunity Employer

PLC is an equal opportunity employer. PLC does not discriminate in employment on account of race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation, military status, or other non-merit-based factors.