Intensive Family Preservation Worker - $3,000 SIGN ON BONUS!
About The Position
Klingberg is a private nonprofit multi-service agency serving people across Connecticut. Its Intensive Family Preservation (IFP) program aims to keep families together by quickly addressing immediate safety concerns and reducing the risk of future child abuse and neglect. Services are intensive, short-term, and home-based, generally provided twice weekly during the first four weeks and at least once weekly thereafter, based on family needs. Services typically last four to six months. Under the direction of the Coordinator of Intensive Family Preservation, the worker provides intensive home-based services to families whose children are at imminent risk of removal. The role requires rotating, 24-hour on-call availability to assist families with problem diffusion, structuring, and resolution. The position involves a 40-hour, non-structured work week, including evenings and weekends.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in social work, human services, counseling, or a related discipline.
- Maintain a valid driver’s license.
- Participate in rotating on-call responsibilities for client accessibility 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Work a 40-hour, non-structured schedule that includes evenings and weekends.
Nice To Haves
- Two to three years of experience working with children and families preferred.
- Bilingual Spanish skills are a plus.
Responsibilities
- Provide home-based, crisis-oriented treatment and support to families as a primary or backup therapist.
- Carry an assigned caseload.
- Provide family education and skills training to support goal-oriented crisis treatment plans.
- Engage families quickly to reduce immediate safety factors, future risk of abuse or neglect, and the need for out-of-home placement.
- Provide services and interventions to mitigate safety factors that led to a child’s removal from the home.
- Provide support, linkage, and advocacy with schools, courts, and other social service agencies as needed.
- Help family members address basic needs and connect with traditional and non-traditional community supports and services.
- Help family members connect with and engage in therapeutic interventions identified in the Service Plan.
- Complete required DCF and IFP paperwork within established time limits.
- Maintain thorough, up-to-date client records.
- Coordinate and collaborate with Department of Children and Families staff and other community partners, including other in-home services.
- Share rotating on-call duties with other therapists and provide client accessibility 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Benefits
- Competitive wages.
- $3,000 sign-on bonus.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Health Savings Account with an annual employer contribution of $1,000–$2,000.
- Health Reimbursement Account with an annual contribution of $1,500–$3,000, depending on the medical benefit selected.
- $100 reimbursement for an annual physical exam if covered under Klingberg’s medical plans.
- Three weeks’ vacation.
- 12 sick days.
- Paid holidays (the posting lists both 13 and 12 paid holidays in different sections).
- 12 annual staff appreciation activities or events.
- Tuition assistance for winter, spring, and summer semesters.
- Company-paid life insurance for the employee, spouse, and children, plus AD&D insurance.
- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan with up to a 4% company match.
- 10% tuition discount at educational institutions.
- Free, confidential counseling through the Employee Assistance Program.
- Training and professional development opportunities, including “Risking Connections.”
- Referral bonus program.
- Monthly mileage reimbursement, as applicable.
- Eligibility to apply for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
- Reduced lunches at Raymond Hill School.
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Job Type
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