Safe Place Advocacy Center Director SOCIAL SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR IV at State Of Maryland

• Job Location Maryland, United States
• Seniority Director
• Type Full-time

Description

Introduction When you join the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS), you join a team of more than 5,000 employees across the state dedicated to positively changing the lives of more than 1 million Marylanders each year.

We do this by providing economic support, preventive services, and caring for children and adults.

We aim to deliver services so that we more quickly meet the needs of the people we serve.

At DHS, we grapple with hard questions to find new ways to foster a culture of bold innovation.

We do this to ensure that in Maryland, we leave no one behind.

GRADE 19 LOCATION OF POSITION Maryland Department of Human Services Washington County Department of Social Services 122 N.

Potomac Street Hagerstown, MD 21740 Main Purpose of Job Supervision and management of a Child Welfare Team involves planning, managing, directing, training, monitoring, and evaluating the activities of professional and paraprofessional staff that provide Child Protective Services, Mental Health Services, and other Child Welfare Services.

Significant efforts are directed toward assuring the safety of children, preserving and strengthening families, remedying the conditions that may contribute to abuse and neglect of children, developing judicious and expedient service plans for children who are served by the agency, overseeing concurrent plans when needed, and helping to assess appropriate family members.