Sr. Family Services Specialist - Permanency Team (Chesterfield-Colonial Heights)
Chesterfield, Virginia
Employer: Virginia Jobs
Industry: Family Services
Salary: $59452 - $69855 per year
Job type: Full-Time
Hiring Range: $59452 to $69855
Full Time or Part Time: Full Time
Additional Detail
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Minimum Qualifications
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 - 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). Perform other work as required.
Here's What You Need:
A bachelor's degree in social work or another human services field; or an equivalent combination of training and experience. Preferred: two years of social work experience in public child welfare, foster care and adoption services and a master's degree in social work.
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 - 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 - and you're eager to handle your next case. Being a Senior 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.
This position is a part of an approved Career Development Plan (CDP) and offers career progression opportunities and salary incentives, as funding permits, based on performance, qualifications, and experience.
Chesterfield County offers an attractive benefits package and incentives for candidates with a master's degree in social work and bilingual (Spanish & ASL) abilities. Did you know that working for a local government provides credit towards the Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)?
This position includes mandatory participation in emergency Shelter Duty when assigned.
Shift
Monday - Friday; 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; rotating on-call for Permanency
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PLEASE USE THIS LINK TO APPLY: Senior Family Services Specialist - Permanency Team | Job Details tab | Career Pages (governmentjobs.com)
Full Time or Part Time: Full Time
Additional Detail
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PLEASE USE THIS LINK TO APPLY: Senior Family Services Specialist - Permanency Team | Job Details tab | Career Pages (governmentjobs.com)
Minimum Qualifications
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 - 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). Perform other work as required.
Here's What You Need:
A bachelor's degree in social work or another human services field; or an equivalent combination of training and experience. Preferred: two years of social work experience in public child welfare, foster care and adoption services and a master's degree in social work.
- 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 - 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
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 - 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 - and you're eager to handle your next case. Being a Senior 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.
This position is a part of an approved Career Development Plan (CDP) and offers career progression opportunities and salary incentives, as funding permits, based on performance, qualifications, and experience.
Chesterfield County offers an attractive benefits package and incentives for candidates with a master's degree in social work and bilingual (Spanish & ASL) abilities. Did you know that working for a local government provides credit towards the Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)?
This position includes mandatory participation in emergency Shelter Duty when assigned.
Shift
Monday - Friday; 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; rotating on-call for Permanency
**DO NOT CLICK APPLY NOW BUTTON**
PLEASE USE THIS LINK TO APPLY: Senior Family Services Specialist - Permanency Team | Job Details tab | Career Pages (governmentjobs.com)
Created: 2024-08-31
Reference: 3070_lqACQjhlOce8
Country: United States
State: Virginia
City: Chesterfield
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