Wichita and Newton · rebuilt October 14, 2026 from your answers

You said hours
over money.
So this list changed.

Eight months in child welfare, no license yet, no supervising, Newton yes and Butler County no, and a hard requirement of a set forty hours. Everything that failed one of those is gone from the top of this page, and what is left is ordered by the schedule the employer actually printed.

8:00 to 5:00the only posting here with fixed hours in writing

$23.99what that one pays, against your $24.00

15roles open to you, three of them a stretch

3waiting only on the license

What your answers decided

Newton yes, Butler and Hutchinson noThree roles dropped, one of them the highest fixed salary I had found.

No supervisingFour supervisor postings dropped, including the one inside EmberHope.

No license yetFour roles move to a waiting list instead of your application pile.

Hours over payThe ranking flipped: printed schedule first, rate second.

One hard thing worth saying plainly: eight months is the constraint nobody warns you about. The three highest paying roles ask for two to four years, and they stayed on this page anyway, in their own section, because a posting is a wish list and the worst answer is no. Everything after them takes you exactly as you are today.

What you can get today, against what you earn today

Every open role on this page, against the $24.00 you make today. The first three ask for more years than you have, and the note under each bar says what it wants. The rest take you exactly as you are.

UnitedHealthcare, field coordinator$28.27 and up

Asks for 2 to 4 years. Apply anyway

TFI Family Services, case manager$27.07

Asks for 2 years in child placement. Apply anyway

Sunflower Health Plan, LTSS care manager$27.02 and up

Asks for 2 to 4 years, fully remote. Apply anyway

Sedgwick County, Healthy Start coordinator$23.99

Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm

Sedgwick County, access coordinator$24.88

Monday to Saturday, varied between 7:00am and 7:00pm

DCF, child protection specialist$24.87

Schedule not printed, crisis driven, ask about on-call

Sedgwick County, school based specialist II$23.69

Varied, Monday to Friday between 7:00am and 7:00pm

Sedgwick County, adult field based specialist II$23.69

Varied, Monday to Friday between 7:00am and 6:00pm

Saint Francis Ministries, Newton$22.56 to $30.45

Not printed, same child welfare model you have now

Vertical line is your $24.00.Gold clears it, green sits just under.Scale runs $20 to $32 an hour.

Pays the most. Apply anyway.

All three ask for two to four years and you have eight months. Postings are wish lists, hiring managers fill them with who shows up, and nobody has ever been penalized for applying early. Lead with the caseload number and the court experience, not with the months.

$28.27to $50.48 / hr

Field Based HSS Clinical Coordinator

UnitedHealthcare Community & State · Sedgwick County

Asks for 2 to 4 years of related experience. Home office with 2 to 3 field days

Highest rate on the pageBSW acceptedNo licenseStretch

Care coordination for KanCare members in their homes, which is your job without the court custody. In the cover letter, count the stakeholders, not the months: twenty children, each with parents, relatives, foster homes, schools, doctors, therapists and attorneys. That is the experience they are buying.

Range as posted · careers.unitedhealthgroup.com, req 2351940

$27.07per hour

Case Manager

TFI Family Services · Wichita

Asks for 2 years in child placement. Same caseload model you have now

RaiseBachelor's in human servicesStretch, barely

Your exact job at another DCF contracted provider, three dollars an hour higher. This is the closest stretch of the three: the two years they want is the work you are doing right now, just not for long enough yet. Said honestly, the hours problem would travel with you.

Rate as posted on the job board

$27.02to $48.55 / hr

LTSS Service Care Manager

Sunflower Health Plan, Centene · remote in Kansas

Asks for 2 to 4 years. Fully remote, which is the best hours case on this page

RaiseBachelor'sRemoteStretch

Service planning for long term care members, from home, on a schedule. If one of the three lands, this is the one that fixes both the pay and the week at the same time. Worth applying every time a new one posts, because this employer reposts often.

Range as posted · jobs.centene.com

Apply now, in this order

Every role here takes eight months of experience and no license. Ordered by how close the printed schedule gets to the forty hours you asked for.

$23.99per hour

Healthy Start and MCH Coordinator

Sedgwick County Health Department, Healthy Babies · Wichita

Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm, printed in the posting

Verified on employer siteBachelor's in social work or relatedNo licenseCounty benefits and KPERS

Maternal and child health coordination for the county. This is the only posting I found in two days of looking that puts a fixed forty hour schedule in writing. One cent an hour below what you make now, which buys back every evening you currently lose.

careers.sedgwickcounty.org · read October 13, 2026

$24.88per hour

Access Coordinator, COMCARE

Sedgwick County · Wichita

Monday to Saturday, varied, between 7:00am and 7:00pm

RaiseVerified on employer siteBachelor's or equivalent experience

Front door of the county's behavioral health system: screening, referral, community education. The best rate you can reach today, with one catch: Saturdays are in the rotation. Worth asking how often, because the rest of it is a defined shift with an end.

careers.sedgwickcounty.org · read October 13, 2026

$23.69per hour

School Based Integrated Care Specialist II, COMCARE

Sedgwick County · Wichita schools

Varied, Monday to Friday, between 7:00am and 7:00pm

Verified on employer siteBachelor's or equivalent experienceNo license

Behavioral health inside schools, treatment planning with family participation. The school setting without the license the district itself demands, and the building closes, which is its own kind of boundary.

careers.sedgwickcounty.org · read October 13, 2026

$23.69per hour

Adult Field Based Integrated Care Specialist II, COMCARE

Sedgwick County · Wichita

Varied, Monday to Friday, between 7:00am and 6:00pm

Verified on employer siteBachelor's or equivalent experience

Adult clients, community based, coordination and treatment planning. Same craft you have, different population, and no custody hearings on your calendar.

careers.sedgwickcounty.org · read October 13, 2026

$24.87unlicensed · $26.18 licensed

Child Protection Specialist

State of Kansas, DCF · Sedgwick County

Not printed. Crisis driven work, ask about on-call before anything else

RaiseRequirements read from the postingFour-year degree, no license neededState benefits and KPERS

$51,727.50 unlicensed, $54,450.00 licensed, for the public side of the work you already do. It pays more and it is the one role here most likely to eat your evenings, so the on-call rotation is the question that decides it.

State of Kansas careers site · read October 13, 2026

$22.56to $30.45 / hr

Case Manager

Saint Francis Ministries · Newton

Not printed, and it is the same caseload model you have today

Bachelor's acceptedLicense preferred, not requiredNewton, about 25 miles

A wide band makes your experience the entire negotiation. Honest read: the pay can beat today, the week probably will not. Apply if the number matters more than you said it does.

Range as posted on the job board

Askpay not published

START Care Coordinator, Harvey and Marion counties

Mental Health America · Newton

Not printed. Community based program, ask about the on-call share

Bachelor's acceptedNo licenseNewton

Crisis prevention and community support for people with intellectual disabilities. Newton, which you said works, and a program model built on planning rather than emergencies. No rate published, so ask in the first call.

Posting on the job board · read October 13, 2026

Askpay not published

Social Worker

NMC Health · Newton

Hospital, which usually means a fixed daytime shift

Hospital settingConfirm license requirementNewton

Community hospital in Newton. Hospital social work runs on shifts, which is what you are after, but this posting mentions licensure, so confirm whether the BSW alone is enough before you spend time on it.

Posting on the job board · read October 13, 2026

Askpay not published

Therapeutic Foster Home Specialist

DCCCA · Wichita

Not printed, ask about evenings and home visit windows

Bachelor's in human servicesNo license

Supporting and licensing therapeutic foster homes rather than carrying the children's cases. Your home assessment experience is the exact skill this role buys.

Posting on the job board · read October 13, 2026

Askpay not published

Family Preservation Services Case Manager

DCCCA · Wichita

Family preservation is after-hours heavy, ask first

Bachelor's in human servicesNo license

Keeping families together before removal, the step before everything you handle now. Meaningful work, and the one on this list most likely to repeat your current hours problem.

Posting on the job board · read October 13, 2026

Askpay not published

Case Manager

Mirror Inc · Wichita

Not printed, substance use treatment program

Bachelor's acceptedNo license

Case management inside a treatment program, where the clients come to the building. Program based work tends to end when the program day ends.

Posting on the job board · read October 13, 2026

Askpay not published

Care Transition Coordinator

Corterra · Wichita

Not printed, post-acute care setting

Bachelor's acceptedNo license

Moving patients from hospital to home or facility, coordinating what happens next. Discharge coordination is the closest thing to your job that exists on a clock.

Posting on the job board · read October 13, 2026

Six questions that protect your forty hours

None of these are rude. A manager who cannot answer them is telling you the answer.

Is there an on-call rotation, and how many weeks a year would I carry it?
What does the team actually average per week, not what the posting says?
Is overtime paid, flexed, or discouraged? If I hit forty by Thursday, what happens?
How many cases or clients does one person hold here, and how is that number capped?
Is documentation time inside the shift, or do people finish it at home?
Who covers a crisis that lands at 4:45pm on a Friday?

Waiting on the license

These three will not take an application without a BSRB credential. They are here so the exam has a price tag attached to it.

When the license lands

Ascension Via Christi, social work case manager

$57,328 to $83,843 a year, hospital shifts. Will not accept an application without the credential.

When the license lands

Kansas aging and disability services

$60,000 to $65,000 a year. The LBSW alone qualifies, no master's needed.

When the license lands

Wichita Public Schools, behavior interventionist

From $52,401 a year, school calendar, summers off. Needs a teaching, counseling or social work license.

About the exam, since you brought it up

You said the test is hard and your schedule will not make room for it. Both things are true, and they are connected: the schedule is the obstacle, not the exam.

+$2,722.50a year at DCF for the same job, licensed instead of unlicensed

3roles above that open the day you hold it

8:00 to 5:00the schedule that makes studying possible at all

Which is the argument for taking the fixed forty hour job first and sitting the exam from inside it, instead of trying to study on top of fourteen hour days. Nothing on the apply-now list asks for the license, so the order works in your favor.

How to work this list

Send the three stretch applications on a Sunday night, in twenty minutes, and forget them. Nothing is lost if they say no.
Apply to the Healthy Start coordinator role first. It is the only posting with your schedule written into it, and it costs you one cent an hour.
Apply to the three COMCARE roles the same week. Same employer, same application system, and the county moves faster than anyone else on this page.
Call the four Newton and Wichita roles with no published pay before applying. Two questions: the rate, and the on-call rotation. That is a ten minute call that saves you a week.
Treat DCF as the pay option, not the hours option. Apply only if the on-call answer is one you can live with.
Put the exam on the calendar for after you start somewhere with a fixed shift, not before.
In every interview, lead with the number: twenty children, each with a network of dozens of parties, inside a fifty hour cap. Eight months in, that is a stronger sentence than most people say at five years.