Senior Family Services Specialist
Location: Chesterfield, Virginia
Description: Chesterfield County, VA is looking of Senior Family Services Specialist right now, this job will be ordered in Virginia. For complete informations about this job opportunity please give attention to these descriptions. We know you: you're flexible, adaptable and well-organized; compassionate and understanding; assertive and able to make independent decisions. You're committed to the children who need a voice and those who care for them. And you know what? You might be exactly who we're looking for.
Customer Experience: It's Our Business, It's Our Passion .
The Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Department of Social Services is hiring a Senior Family Services Specialist â€" Permanency Services Team to support and assist clients and relative caregivers in utilizing available resources to meet their personal, social, health, and economic needs and to help them develop their own capabilities.
What You Do and How You Do it:
Clients seeking solutions to specific challenges such as substance abuse, mental health diagnoses, and management of finances, housing, health needs, education, and employment will rely on your guidance. You'll help customers connect with community resources to receive the services they need. You will also provide crisis intervention to families experiencing significant life events. You will provide a range of child welfare services including permanency planning for children temporarily placed in foster care and adoption services. You will gather, assess, and analyze information to develop service plans and written assessments for children and their families using a strengths-based and trauma informed approach. You will work towards reunifying children with their parents and/or relatives. You will learn local, state and federal regulations, and stay up-to-date as things change. You will provide case management services to children placed in foster care as well as to the parents of children in foster care. You will lead the customer's treatment team which includes service providers, family members, attorneys and other community partners involved in the case. You will document all of your work in state database that is monitored on a local and state level. At times, as the need arises, Senior Family Services Specialist staff is assigned to various teams within the child welfare continuum of services (foster care, adoption, family preservation, CPS).
Here's What You Need:
We prefer a worker with experience in public child welfare, preferably foster care and adoption services with the mandated Virginia foster care training. A master's degree in social work is preferred. A bachelor's degree in social work or another human services field and one year of social work experience, or a bachelor's degree in a human services field with at least two years of appropriate and related experience; or an equivalent combination of training and experience will be considered, too.
Excellent oral and written communication skills to include the ability to interact with a diverse population
Outstanding public speaking and presentation skills, especially for court interventions
Assertive and confident â€" especially when being challenged
Independent thinker and decision maker
Strong computer skills
Ability to deal effectively with conflict
A real commitment to the safety of children and to Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Department of Social Services
Strong time management and organizational skills
Good driving record. Must not reflect a total of six or more demerit points within the twenty-four months preceding the anticipated hire date, or one major violation within the preceding thirty-six months. The hiring salary is $46,373-$54,577 annually, plus an attractive benefits package.
Realistic Job Preview
We'll be honest--at times you will feel overwhelmed and emotionally drained. The workload is heavy with new cases constantly forming. It's a stressful job with critical outcomes. So you have to be committed to your clients â€" the children and their families. But you have a direct impact on the life of a child and their family that lasts a lifetime. When you see a family put their life back together and the child is happy and safe, you realize you may have saved a life â€" and you're eager to handle your next case. Being a family services specialist isn't for everyone, but if you are committed to making a real difference in the lives of others and are looking for a career rather than a job, we want you on our team.
Still Interested?
Click the "apply" link above to complete and submit an application by 5pm February 8, 2018.
Shift:
Monday - Friday; 8:30a.m. - 5:00p.m. This position has on-call and after hours responsibilities.
Work Location:
Social Services
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If you were eligible to this job, please send us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Chesterfield County, VA.
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