Family Service Specialist

4 days ago

Wilmington, Delaware, United States DelDOT Full time

Job Summary

The Family Service Specialist will provide professional social work services to children, youth, and families, resolving problems involving client abuse, neglect, dependency, antisocial behavior, exploitation, and family dysfunction.

Key Responsibilities

  • Advocate for the health, safety, and welfare of clients and their families, assisting them in obtaining needed services.
  • Interview clients and family members to gather personal, social, and background information, and work closely with them to formulate a clear description of the client and family's problems.
  • Determine eligibility for various social service programs offered by the agency or available in the community.
  • Develop and implement service/treatment plans, outlining goals and objectives, methods and techniques, and anticipated results, and help clients and families obtain community, social, and/or therapeutic services and resources needed to accomplish plans and objectives.
  • Conduct individual and family counseling sessions to aid in achieving satisfactory social development and adjustment to specific problems and situations.
  • Assess progress toward goals and make recommendations on plans such as reclassification, discharge, aftercare, emergency protective placement in emergency or crisis situations, guardianship, petitions, or options counseling.
  • Prepare social histories, client progress reports, evaluation and discharge summaries, court reports or petitions, and maintain a variety of records and files pertaining to clients assigned to caseload.
  • Enforce court orders and conditions of community supervision as required, attend 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.

Requirements

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

  • Professional health or human service work, including determining eligibility for and availability of community resources, assisting and connecting clients and their families to needed services, addressing family conflict and engaging crisis resolution, and evaluating progress toward goals.

Preferred Qualifications

Applicants must possess at least one of the following:

  • 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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