WEST MICHIGAN SOCIAL WORKERS - KENT COUNTY FULL TIME OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

FAMILIES FIRST WORKERS!! Are you ready to make a positive change in the lives of families?  Do you have two years field experience working with children and families in a family-centered, solution-focused environment?  Do you have a Bachelor’s degree in SOCIAL WORK or comparable human service field?

We are on the hunt for person-centric colleagues to join our Families First of Michigan team IN KENT COUNTY doing impactful work! This vital role involves intensive, home-based, 28-day interventions with a two-family-caseload that focuses on the family’s strengths, utilizing their own resilience, as they become self-sufficient. Our staff spend an average of 10 hours a week with these families, face-to-face, with the goal of keeping children with their families. The time spent will be both traditional and non-traditional work hours. Come check us out! We have full time opportunities servicing cases in Kent County.

Welcome to Samaritas Nation!

Samaritas is a Michigan-based human service organization that connects people with families and communities, empowers them to live their fullest life possible, and creates a ripple effect of transformation. The reference to the work of the Good Samaritan in our name is especially fitting as it is consistent with our mission, values and the services our faith-based company provides.  

APPLY TODAY! #BeTheRock, creating ripples of positive transformation in the lives of those we are entrusted to serve! 

This FULL TIME ROLE with a starting salary of $43,888.00 with varied shifts and the potential of on-call, based on the needs of our clients. 

Provides intensive, short term or long-term in-home crisis intervention and family education, based on program specification, to at-risk families. 

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Provide in-home crisis oriented treatment, education and support to family units where one or more family members may be placed outside the home in foster, group, or institutional care or, be at-risk of being removed from the home
2. Provide a range of interventions to children, adults, and families, using acceptable treatment methodologies consistent with the Family Preservation best practice model
3. Actively participate as a member of team meetings; keep all members informed of case status and progress; provide oral and written reports as needed and make recommendations about case goals, alternative service plans, action steps and activities for treatment plans
4. Assist clients to clearly define presenting problems, devise methods and goals for resolution, assess their progress toward treatment goals and plan termination
5. Present cases to supervisor for review of treatment plans and progress on a regularly scheduled basis
6. Provide appropriate referrals for clients requiring additional or alternative services
7. Assume therapeutic responsibility for all cases on assigned caseload; conduct intake, assessment and scheduling of all assigned clients
8. Collaborate with referral sources, agencies, institutions and individuals who have important roles in the family’s life situation. Provide advocacy and professional consultation work with the referring organization, schools, court, and other social service agencies as needed
9. Complete client follow up at intervals as outlined
10. Complete and maintain all reports, statistics and assignments as required. Enter all required data in required systems in a timely manner
11. Participate in all required training and effectively implement learned skills

Job Qualifications

Education, Training, and Licensure/Certification

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in any human service field or education preferred, OR Two years' experience working with children and/or families and an associate degree or the equivalent in human services or eeucation and be actively working towards a bachelor degree in human services or education (only when no viable degreed candidate is available).
• Valid driver’s license with good driving record; reliable ongoing personal transportation suitable for safely transporting clients; current automobile registration and proof of automobile insurance

Experience