Family Partner and Housing Specialist (65931)

Family Support Services•Largo, FL

About The Position

The mission of Family Support Services is to be the leader in providing safety, stability, and quality of life for all children by working with the community to strengthen the family unit. Job Summary: The Family Partner assesses families’ strengths and needs, provides parenting education, and makes service referrals as needed. This position enhances family functioning by building trusting relationships, teaching problem-solving skills, providing information, and improving the families’ support systems. Services are comprehensive and well-coordinated; staff will be cross-trained in other systems to understand a family’s needs and make appropriate referrals. Practice is empowerment-based, helping families and also solving external issues such as housing and employment. The Family Partner will facilitate Parent Cafes. In addition, the family partner will assist preservation staff in identifying housing resources.

Requirements

Education: GED or High School Diploma, Bachelor’s degree in Social Work or related field from an accredited college or university preferred.
Experience: Proven combination of education and experience which demonstrates the ability to lead, manage, enhance, and promote the assigned programs of the agency.
Have personal unique, lived experience that can assist with guiding and supporting others.
Licensure, Certification, and/or Registration: Valid driver’s license.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Ability to: Work collaboratively with community members, peers and supervisors.
Maintain high organizational, leadership and communication skills.
Be detail-oriented.
Utilize networking skills.
Interpersonal skills of communication, facilitation, collaborative problem solving and planning, consensus building, and conflict resolution.
Communicate and express ideas effectively with staff and clients.
Write reports and correspondence.
Speak effectively before small and large groups.
Solve problems and deal with a variety of variables while working collaboratively to develop family intervention plans.
Think critically and see future consequences of decisions.
Assess psycho-social behavior and psychological aspects of children and families.
Comprehend, collect and analyze data before and during facilitation regarding child safety factors and recognizing risk to children.
Collaborate with system partners.
Knowledge of: Family and group dynamics with a range of intervention techniques.
Best Practices as it relates to Family Preservation and Facilitation.
Social Worker principles, techniques, and practices and their application to complex case work, group work, and community problems.
Laws, regulations, and policies which govern all Child Welfare programs.
Child Protection and child development issues.
New and existing community resources and social service multi-disciplinary providers in Pasco and Pinellas counties and surrounding areas.
Other Requirements: Clear a Level II Background screening (Live Scan) in which your fingerprints will be used to conduct the screening. Please see the link with further details: https://info.flclearinghouse.com
Clear a reference check.
Clear a local background check from the County in which you reside.
Clear a substance abuse screen.
Provide a copy of all degrees prior to your first day of employment.
Clear a Motor Vehicles Records check and must be insurable under the company’s automobile policy.
Provide copy of automobile insurance.
Provide proof of, and maintain a minimum personal auto liability insurance level $100,000/$300,000 if deemed to be a driving risk.
Clear an E-Verify check to substantiate that the successful candidate meets the Department of Homeland Security authorization requirements to work in the United States (for more information visit www.dhs.gov/e-verify).
FSS is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. FSS is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Human Resources at [email protected].

Nice To Haves

Certification as a Peer Specialist a plus.

Responsibilities

Advocacy Services – works as an advocate for families by providing support, resources, and parent guidance.
Provides in-home evidence-base parenting curriculum; models/practices positive interactions
Provide peer support and encouragement to participants
Participates in meetings/staffing relating to case decisions, i.e., Family Team Conference, IPT, Grant-related meetings
Facilitate Parent Cafes
Identify and maintain hosing resources and partnerships to stabilize families
Other duties as assigned