Family Service Specialist

3 days ago

Wilmington, Delaware, United States DelDOT Full time

Job Summary

The Family Service Specialist provides professional social work services to children, youth, and families, or adult special populations and families, to resolve problems involving client abuse, neglect, dependency, antisocial behavior, exploitation, and family dysfunction.

Key Responsibilities

  • Advocates for the health, safety, and welfare of clients and their families, and assists them in obtaining needed services.
  • Interviews clients and family members, and/or professionals, to gather personal, social, and background information, and works closely with the client and family to formulate a clear description of the client and family's problems.
  • Determines eligibility for various social service programs offered by the agency or available in the community.
  • Develops and implements service/treatment plans, outlining the goals and objectives to be accomplished, methods and techniques to be used, and anticipated results.
  • Conducts individual and family counseling sessions with clients and members of the family to aid in achieving satisfactory social development and adjustment to specific problems and situations.
  • Assesses progress toward goals and makes recommendations on plans such as reclassification, discharge, aftercare, emergency protective placement in emergency or crisis situations, guardianship, petitions, or options counseling.
  • Prepares social histories, client progress reports, evaluation and discharge summaries, court reports, or petitions, and prepares and maintains a variety of records and files pertaining to clients assigned to caseload.
  • Enforces court orders and conditions of community supervision as required, and attends court hearings and other judicial proceedings to answer questions, make recommendations, and prepare progress reports regarding clients.
  • May be called upon to intervene in crisis situations such as potential suicides, assault and battery against clients, and sexual abuse cases, and may coordinate with law enforcement and other emergency staff if needed.
  • May be required to perform emergency duty which requires being on call for an assigned time period.

Requirements

Applicants must have education, training, and/or experience demonstrating competence in each of the following areas:

  • One year of experience in professional health or human service work.
  • Two years' experience in paraprofessional health or human service work, with an Associate's degree substituting for one year of paraprofessional experience.
  • Possession of a Bachelor's degree or higher, or an anticipated graduation date within 3 months, with coursework in Behavioral Science, Psychology, Sociology, Human Services, or a related field.

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