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Description 45% Provides services to families by maintaining a caseload of abuse, neglect, and dependency cases. Works to assess the validity of complaints accepted according to ODJFS rules and agency policy of abuse, neglect, and dependency by conducting interviews of adults and children at various locations, completing assessments in the Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS), gathering evidence, and working with community partners and/or collateral sources. Provides interventions to alleviate crises and reduce risks to children by engaging the family, community partners, and referring for service linkage. Establishes a family case plan with individualized goals and assesses progress on a routine basis; maintains contact with client, out of home placement, and interested parties and assesses progress of case plan; determines alternative treatment plans as necessary; provides crisis intervention case management as established by ODJFS Rule and Agency Policy. Attends/testifies at court hearings; attends and actively participates in administrative case reviews; performs planned and emergency placements; supervises visits with parents and transports children/adults. Is responsible for handling difficult and emergency cases and/or situations, during and after work hours, and makes referrals within Protective Services or to community partners for additional services to support the family. 30% Maintains case record documentation in SACWIS and the Electronic Data Management System (EDMS) (e.g., photos, audio/video recordings, activity logs, forms, written summaries, assessments, case plans, social history, and court documents) for supervisory approvals and agency record retention. 15% Assesses need for placement of children in substitute care when needed. Secure out-of- home care placement which best meets the child's individual needs in a least restrictive and most home-like/appropriate setting. 10% Participates in ongoing training programs, supervisory/staff meetings, group decision making meetings and other related management support tasks. Participates in weekend and afterhours on call coverage on a rotating basis. Performs other duties as assigned. Duties The primary purpose of the Social Services Worker 3 position is to investigate claims of abuse and neglect of children AND/OR maintain caseload of children/families who have previously been determined to require the protective assistance services of the agency (i.e., ongoing clients) as determined appropriate AND/OR manage caseload of foster care and/or adoption assessments and placements. In addition, the classification prepares child cases for court, meets procedural deadlines governing the management of social services cases set by the State of Ohio and ensures that this documentation is complete, and serves as on-call social service worker (e.g., on weekends, holidays, after business hours). Qualifications Per Section 5153.112 of the Ohio Revised Code, applicants of a Public Children Services unit must have one of the following: 1. A bachelor's degree in human services-related studies, or 2. A bachelor's degree in any field and have been employed for at least two years in a human services occupation, or 3. An associate's degree in human services-related studies, or 4. Been employed for at least five years in a human service-related occupation. For employment to continue, a person described in Option 2, 3, or 4 above must obtain a job-related bachelor's degree not later than five years after the date employment with the agency commences. Per Section 5153.122 of the Ohio Revised Code, each caseworker shall complete at least ninety hours of in-service training during the first year of the caseworker's continuous employment, consisting of courses in recognizing and preventing child abuse and neglect, assessing risks, interviewing persons, investigating cases, intervening, pr