Social Caseworker Intern-165807

What Success Looks Like In This Job

• We believe in treating everyone with dignity and respect, valuing their input, and striving to do no harm.
• Honoring all people’s unique expertise and perspectives includes collaboration, shared decision making, and providing a safe environment.
• The best interest of children, families, and our community will always inform our approach, perspectives, and decisions.
• Children and youth belong in families and have a right to sibling, family, and community connections.
• Families have the inherent capacity to safely care for their children.
• We hold ourselves and our system accountable to each other, our families, and our community.

Examples of Duties for Success

All Casework Interns support a team responsible for:

• Extensive case documentation, which includes preparing court reports and social histories, and utilizing family engagement skills to mitigate risk and enhance safety that will be used in the office, client homes, and in the community.
• Assessing safety of a child/youth/at-risk adults and making decisions based on information available, which could include removing a child from their home.
• Advocating for families and children, testifying in court, and de-escalating potentially volatile situations.
• Daily travel around the Denver Metro area and periodic travel throughout Colorado.
• Will discuss in detail and work with families who are dealing with substance abuse, mental health, domestic violence, multi-generational poverty, child abuse, child neglect and sexual abuse.

• The Assessment Casework Intern supports a team responsible for:
  • Assessment Response Section has a statutory responsibility to respond to reports of child abuse and requests for assistance. This section addresses safety issues, determines the level of risk to the child, and makes decisions about what should be done to address safety and reduce risk.
• The Permanency Caseworker Intern supports a team responsible for:
  • Permanency Section has a mission to address primary abuse and neglect issues that compromise child safety and precipitate a need for social services involvement. These caseworkers use a network of supportive services to assist parents to develop skills and resources, to create a safe home environment and increase parental protective capacities, to ensure that children can be safe in the home and achieve permanency for children within two to twelve months – with parents, kin or an alternate permanent family setting.

Qualifications for Success

• Computer skills and the ability to research the internet to obtain specific information.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• Models positive, professional behaviors for others; confronts behaviors in a non-judgmental, effective manner.
• Ability to establish, maintain, and foster positive and harmonious working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Performs related duties and responsibilities as required

More Qualifications for Success

Experience/Education & Training: Candidates must be enrolled in an accredited social work program in Colorado and completing an internship required by your program.

License & Certificate: Must have a valid Colorado Driver’s License, or the ability to obtain within 30 days and have regular vehicle access.

Background Check: Must pass a criminal background check.

Other: Must utilize a personal vehicle to get to many appointments in the local community and surrounding areas within Colorado.

Ability to obtain, maintain, and ensure continued access to State and County systems in strict compliance with all applicable county and state regulations, policies, and user agreements.

Adams County and the 17th Judicial District Attorney's Office complies with Colorado’s Job Application Fairness Act (“JAFA”). JAFA prohibits employers from asking individuals to disclose their age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation on an initial employment application. However, additional application materials such as certifications and transcripts containing this information may be required for certain positions; if such additional materials are requested, applicants may redact information that identifies the applicant’s age, date of birth, or dates or attendance or graduation.