Job Description
Job Description
Children's Home of Reading | SafeGuards Foster Care
Now Hiring: Foster Care Case Manager
Type: Full-time
Salary: $40,000
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Case Manager is responsible for safety and services to children and families in foster care. Tasks include facilitating team meetings, development of individualized service plans, coordination of individualized services across all settings, including the home, school, and community environment, and documentation of support related activities and services.
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:
Case Managers shall possess a bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, guidance and counseling, education, criminal justice, nursing, or related field human services field.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
• Ensures one’s own training requirements are completed and up to date and reported to the Program Manager.
• Completes the intake process for new clients, obtaining the appropriate documentation for placement. facilitates and writes individualized service plans and ensures on-going coordination of the service plan.
• Orients new youth and families to SafeGuards programming.
• Maintains a caseload of 12 to 15 children and their foster families.
• Has face-to-face contact with each referred child and his/her foster family at least on a bi-weekly basis (may require extensive travel based on the individual needs of the child and family).
• Has telephone contact with each child’s referring agency each week to provide updates and youth activities within the program.
• Transports assigned clients to and from home visits and other locations as necessary.
• Plans, arranges, and/or provides crisis intervention services as needed.
• Maintains client files according to standards and as required by policy and procedures.
• Maintains confidentiality and HIPAA standards for all assigned clients and families.
The Case Manager may need to assist in the implementation of a ½ hour Social Skills group.
Excellent Perks and Benefits:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
- 401k, Life & Disability Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Training & Career Advancement
- A Great Team Environment
- We offer our team members DailyPay!
- Wellness Programs & more
Join Our Team—We’re Better Together!
For more than 140 years, The Children’s Home of Reading has been a pillar of hope, transforming the lives of at-risk children and families. What began as a heartfelt effort by compassionate citizens to shelter just six children has grown into a vital lifeline—now, as CHOR Youth and Family Services, reaching over 4,000 children, adults, and families through more than 35 specialized residential, educational, and community-based programs last year alone. We realized by aligning with the legacy agencies of Community Prevention Partnership, Edison Court, Safeguards and PA Forensics as CHOR YFS, we believe that real change happens when we work together.
We’re Better Together, and that’s why we’re looking for compassionate, dedicated, driven and responsible individuals to join our team. Here, you won’t just work—you’ll mentor, guide, and uplift those who need it most. You’ll take on meaningful responsibilities while growing both personally and professionally.
We support our team through comprehensive training and a collaborative environment where every contribution matters, and for our full-time employees we have a great benefits package. Whether you’re just starting your career or looking for a place to make a real impact, CHOR YFS provides the support, resources, and mission-driven work that turns passion into purpose.
Be a part of something bigger. Join CHOR YFS today—because we’re truly better together.
About Company:
Apis Services, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Inperium, Inc.) provides a progressive platform for delivering Shared Services to Inperium and its Constellation of affiliate companies. Allowing these entities to advance their mission and vision. By exploring geographical program expansion and focusing on quality outcome measures to create cost savings that result in reinvestment into the organizations stakeholders through capacity creation and employee compensation betterment.
Apis Services, Inc. and affiliate’s provide equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment in compliance with all federal and all applicable state and local laws and regulations, including nondiscrimination in hiring and employment. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy/childbirth, veteran status or any other basis protected by law. This policy of non-discrimination and equal employment opportunities extends to every phase and aspect of hiring and employment.