Family Services Specialist

1 month ago

Roanoke, Virginia, United States Commonwealth of Virginia Full time
Job Title: Family Services Specialist

Join the Commonwealth of Virginia team as a Family Services Specialist, working with the Foster Care In-Home division to provide support and assistance to agency clients in meeting their personal, social, health, and economic needs.

Job Summary

The successful candidate will identify problems and refer families to outside services to address the needs and issues that are of risk to the safety of families and children in their own homes. The role involves maintaining case records, preparing written reports of services, and testifying in court hearings when required.

Key Responsibilities
  • Interview clients to assess the nature and extent of needs
  • Identify problems, counsel with clients, and confer with supervisor in preparing social studies in the formulation and delivery of service plans
  • Maintain records through the course of client's service relationships with agency
  • Make referrals for service to agencies, such as clinics, employment services, vocational rehabilitation services, etc.
  • Perform work with agencies such as juvenile and domestic relations courts, circuit courts, etc.
  • Provide protection and care to abandoned, abused, and neglected children and adults on a regular and emergency basis in potentially dangerous situations
  • Work with abusive or neglecting parents and families to help effect changes in family situation, usually in a family home setting
  • Make decisions to remove children from dangerous situations and recommendations regarding institutionalization of adults and children
  • Study homes for day care, foster care of adoption placement and/or foster care and adoptive placements
  • Maintain case records, prepares written reports of services, findings, and actions
  • Serve as agency representative on a variety of multi-disciplinary teams
  • Share a 24-hour on-call rotation
Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

  • Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in a Human Services field or minimum of a Bachelor's degree in any field with a minimum of two years of appropriate and related experience in a Human Services
  • Possession of a valid appropriate driver's permit issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia
Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as traffic hazards, violent individuals, communicable diseases, or rude/irate customers.

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