Foster Care Case Manager- Hillsborough
The Foster Care Case Manager at Confidential Client provides direct case management services to children, birth families, foster families, and caregivers to ensure appropriate services and continuity of care aimed at preventing or resolving child abuse or neglect. This role involves assessment, planning, coordination, advocacy, and maintaining positive relationships with all parties, including court and appointment coordination, transportation, and crisis intervention support. The position requires reliable transportation and adherence to confidentiality and regulatory standards, offering a meaningful opportunity to impact children's and families' lives.
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What You’ll Do
The Confidential Client is seeking a Foster Care Case Manager to provide direct case management to children, birth families, foster families and primary caregivers. This is a non-exempt, full-time role focused on assessment, planning, coordination, advocacy and continuity of care to support child safety and well-being.
- Identify strengths, limitations, risk factors, and service needs for children and case participants and refer/coordinate appropriate services.
- Maintain required face-to-face contact with children and involved parties per state law, funder requirements, and program policy.
- Keep ongoing communication with parents, caregivers, courts, providers and team members; document and notify parties of status or placement changes.
- Ensure attendance and documentation for court dates, staffings and required meetings.
- Provide information and accompany children to appointments when needed.
- Transport and supervise children and case participants, including those with medical or behavioral health needs.
- Mentor and support foster parents, birth parents and caregivers, offering training and crisis intervention.
- Prepare timely recommendations and documentation related to services rendered.
- Participate in on-call rotation per agency policy.
- Maintain client confidentiality and secure releases of information as required.
What We Offer
- $49,500 salary — entry level, non-certified Case Manager
- $51,500 salary — one year of experience as a certified Case Manager
- $53,500 salary — three years or more of experience as a certified Case Manager
- Paid training and continuous professional development
- Flexible hours
- 15 PTO days per year and 13 paid holidays
- Medical, Dental & Vision insurance; Healthcare Concierge
- Financial Wellness Program; Dependent Care FSA
- Immediate eligibility for 403(b) savings plan with 25% match
- Supplementary accident, hospital indemnity and specified disease insurance
- Paid Life/AD&D insurance
- Pet, legal and identity-theft programs
- Mileage reimbursement
- An opportunity to make a meaningful difference in children’s and families’ lives
Qualifications / What You Will Need
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (examples: Criminology, Psychology, Sociology, Counseling, Special Education, Education, Human Development, Child Development, Family Development, Marriage & Family Therapy, Nursing), OR
- Associate’s degree or 60+ college credits plus two (2) years of full-time social work or human services experience
- Reliable transportation and ability to use a personal vehicle to transport clients; valid driver’s license and proof of auto insurance required
- Ability to complete background screening, drug screening and motor vehicle checks as required by agency and Florida Care Provider regulations
About Our Client
Confidential Client provides a broad spectrum of human services spanning behavioral and mental health, child welfare and adoption, family support, employment transition, housing, food, transportation and home-care assistance. The organization welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds and strives to support licensure-eligible staff with supervision where available.
Confidential Client is a Florida Care Provider and candidates will be subject to state-required fingerprinting and background checks through the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse.
Background Screening
All candidates considered for hire must successfully complete background screening requirements, which may include drug testing and applicable motor vehicle checks. Fingerprinting through the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse is required where applicable.
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.
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