Foster Care Case Manager (Child Welfare Specialist)

Make a difference in the lives of children and adolescents every day! As a Foster Care Case Manager, you serve a critical role in our work supporting children with emotional, behavioral or medical complexities. Work with an amazing team of social workers to provide services and support to individuals within foster care.

Essential Job Functions

• Provide case management services including intake, assessment, crisis intervention, advocacy, referral, and monitoring of families.
• Gathers social history to assess family strengths and weaknesses, and existing problems.
• Conducts home visits and office base services, and accompanies consumers as needed.
• Coordinates care with outreach workers, health educators, nutritionists and other service providers to prevent service duplication and to ensure the consumer receives high quality care.
• Identifies and procures group services appropriate for the consumer to maximize the consumer's ability to live outside an institution. Plans and assists in obtaining services third-party service providers.
• Develops a plan of care for each consumer to include services such as advocacy/case management, independent living skills, training, peer support, physical therapy, cognitive therapy, etc.
• Monitors the deliver of services in coordination with the consumer and third-party service providers.
• Assists consumers with related matters including consumers' eligibility for benefits through Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and private insurance.
• Maintains up-to-date case records with the status of case activity, including progress notes on all contacts.
• Performs other related duties and activities as required.

• Bachelor's degree in human services field and two years experience working with children. Knowledge of case management.
• Current driver's license, car registration and auto insurance.
• Current CPR/First Aid Certification or able to obtain.
• Licensed by State of Illinois as Child Welfare Specialist (CWEL)
• Bi-lingual/Spanish a plus!

We offer a competitive salary and a $1500 bonus for those with a current Illinois Child Welfare License!

We offer additional benefits such as: Advanced Mileage Payments (AMP), recently increased mileage reimbursement ($.45/mile), Cell Phone Reimbursement, On Call Pay, and Rewards and Recognition)

Founded in 1980, The MENTOR Network is a national network of local human services providers offering an array of quality, community-based services in more than 30 states to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families.

EOE/AAE