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Family Services Specialist II
1 month ago
Full Time or Part Time: Full Time
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The City of Alexandria is bordered by Washington D.C. and the Potomac River, Arlington and Fairfax counties, and Maryland. Thesmall city has a cosmopolitan feel with 150,000 people living within its 15.75 square miles. At the Department of Community and Human Services, we provide essential safety net services to help city residents enjoy a sense of well-being, safety and self-sufficiency. Our behavioral health programs provide compassionate services that support self-determination and recovery. The beauty of our diverse and resilient people and our commitment to race and social equity, coupled with a historic district dating to 1749, charming waterfront, vibrant arts community and unique places for foodies and shopping, make the City of Alexandria a uniquely wonderful place to live, work and play. We invite all qualified candidates to learn more and apply for ourFamily Services Specialist II - Fatherhood Specialist position.
General Statement of Duties:
A Family Services Specialist II - Fatherhood Specialist provides intensive, culturally competent social work services to individuals and families. Fatherhood outreach and support is a specialized area of social work practice that ensures the role and relationship of fathers in their lives of their children is valued, understood, and respected as unique and central to a child's sense of themselves, their cultural heritage, and well-being. Services are focused on removing barriers to responsible fatherhood while helping fathers gain support to build strong parenting skills that respect family and community culture.
The goal of fatherhood in child welfare services at Alexandria DCHS is to support fathers in their role of providing and maintaining safety, stability, permanency, family connection, and well-being to their children. Alexandria DCHS utilizes a racial equity approach in all work with families. The services are individualized, strength based, trauma informed, collaborative, and community based.
Examples of Duties:
- Accept assigned fatherhood outreach and engagement referrals; consult with referring Family Services Specialists and fathers to identify needed services in cases of child welfare prevention, Child Protective Services, In-home, foster care, and adoption; provide continuous assessment of fatherhood needs.
- Provide individualized services to support fathers and paternal relatives in meeting the requirements of service plans to ensure child safety, stability, permanency, family connection, and well-being.
- Provide case consultation and advocacy services for fathers and paternal relatives.
- Utilize a variety of methods to identify fathers and paternal relatives such as genograms, case mining, computer searches, letter writing, phone calls, and face-to-face interviews.
- Locate and engage fathers and paternal relatives for children and youth receiving child welfare services.
- Utilize clinical skills in engaging father and paternal family members in all settings, e.g. during father-child family time, home visits, school meetings, and court.
- Respond to special Family Services Specialist requests to engage fathers and other difficult to engage paternal family members.
- Support fathers in preparation, during, and after Family Partnership Meetings to meet the provisions outlined in the family plans.
- Assist fathers to participate safely in meetings and communicate their needs.
- Apply clinical and strength-based interventions that helps fathers identify and utilize their strengths and build supportive, relational skills with their children.
- Support fathers in accessing medical, mental health, housing, employment, legal, transportation, and other basic services to assist them in providing stability for their children.
- Participate in ongoing skills training to develop expertise in fatherhood best practices.
- Act as a liaison and referral source for fathers with community fatherhood groups.
- Support ongoing development of Alexandria DCHS fatherhood program.
- Support training and development of fatherhood best practices across the child welfare staff and provide fatherhood best practices within Alexandria DCHS.
- Serve on the rotation schedule for after-hours foster care on-call support.
Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Ability to apply knowledge of antiracist practices, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and application of a racial equity lens in service provision.Extensive knowledge of federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and policies in child welfare. Essential knowledge of the Virginia Family Engagement Model, family systems theory, and family-centered clinical practice. Expertise in integrating the principles and practices of father engagement into traditional child welfare casework and to understand the potential impact on child safety, stability, permanency, family connection, and organizational systems is critical. Required skills are needed in the areas of crisis intervention, communication, critical assessment skills (particularly for safety planning), group work, and collaboration. The position requires an ability to adapt to a rapidly evolving practice environment.
Minimum Qualifications:
Master'sdegree in a human services field and two (2)yearsofrelevant experience. Employees must possess a valid driver's license issued by the state of their residence if they are in a position with driving responsibilities.
Preferred Qualifications:
Licensed or license-eligible in the field of Social Work; Fluent & Bilingual in both English and Spanish.