Are you energized by helping others? Would you like to make your community a better place for families and children?
Embracing Heart Supportive Services has the job for you! Come join our team as a Family Support Worker and help families stay together and come back together. This position helps to ensure safe, nurturing family contact by supervising parent-child interactions, and helps parents learn and improve parenting and life skills through one-on-one assistance.
Your Role:
Our team is dedicated to enhancing the lives of those it serves by meeting the comprehensive needs of individuals, families and their community. As a Family Support Worker, you will work to protect and assist the community’s most vulnerable populations from abuse and neglect and help build strong functional families.
In this position, you’ll:
Support case plan goals through teaching, role modeling, and demonstration and provide intensive, hands-on assistance and education to the family in an effort to successfully complete their goals
- Provides services such as life skills, parenting skills, supervised visitation, in the client’s home or a community-based setting
- Monitors family interactions and client behaviors to identify and protect the safety of all participants and assist in helping clients find community resources and assist in applying, if needed
- Participates in family team meetings, client assessments, stakeholder meetings and agency staff meetings, as well as case conferences, school conferences and court appearances with the family as appropriate
- These services are provided in the family’s home or a community-based setting
- Provides transportation of clients, as needed, with personal vehicle
- Completes written timely documentation for the client’s file.
You have:
- A bachelor’s degree in a human relations field; or is enrolled in college and is within two (2) semesters of completing a bachelor’s degree in a human services or a related field or…
- An associate degree or some college plus two (2) years of experience or lived experience to be the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree may be considered or…
- A High School diploma and experience in the human services field or lived experience will be considered as well.
- Must pass required background checks and have a valid Nebraska driver’s license free of serious driving related offenses
- Must have access to a reliable vehicle and carry minimum requirements of auto insurance
- Applicant must be at least 18 years of age
- Must be able to present valid documentation showing eligibility for employment in the United States
- Must have the ability to pass physical examinations in accordance with state regulations and drug testing if required and must not have a history of child abuse or neglect
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed