Family Support Specialist

Four Oaks Of Iowa - Ottumwa, IA

Full-time

Ottumwa, IA

Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

About the position

The Family Support Specialist plays a crucial role in providing supportive services that enable children to safely remain with their families, reunify with them, or achieve alternative permanency. This position involves coordinating care, facilitating family interventions, and ensuring safety monitoring while working closely with families and interdisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain regular contact with referring worker, family, and identified collaterals to achieve permanency goals.
• Coordinate interdisciplinary treatment, maintaining weekly contact with the Therapist and Program Coordinator on all assigned cases.
• Document service delivery, including objectives of treatment and/or intervention strategies.
• Understand and utilize defined assessment tools in working with all cases.
• Facilitate community resource planning, case progress evaluation and permanency planning.
• Coordinate interdisciplinary crisis planning.
• Participate in discharge planning and documentation.
• Schedule and facilitate quarterly staffing on all assigned cases.
• Assess treatment needs.
• Participate in the preparation and implementation of a service plan with input from client, family, therapist, program coordinator, and referral source.
• Demonstrate proficiency in use of various counseling techniques.
• Develop and implement a service agenda for each session.
• Complete on-call duties as assigned.
• Calmly and effectively provide crisis intervention in emergency situations.
• Maintain caseload and consistently achieves quota.

Requirements

• Possess a Bachelor's Degree from a 4 year college or University, preferably in a social services related field of study.
• Possess an Associate's Degree in a Human Services related field plus 2 years of related experience.

Benefits

• $1,000.00 Sign-on Incentive
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401k Retirement plan
• Growth and Advancement opportunities
• Competitive Wages
• Excellent paid leave time package
• 7 paid holidays
• Business casual work environment