Family Support Social Worker

Martha Obryan Center; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 51,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

The Martha O’Bryan Center is seeking a Family Support Social Worker in Nashville to provide trauma-informed support to children and families, partnering with Family Coaches to assess needs and develop stabilization plans. The role emphasizes crisis intervention, resource navigation, advocacy, and evidence-based practices to promote self-sufficiency while ensuring program and grant compliance.

Responsibilities include conducting assessments, coordinating resources, delivering parenting classes,

Qualifications

• Three or more years of related experience.
• Trained in Nurturing Parenting Curriculum as a Facilitator preferred.

Responsibilities

• Complete grant-required assessments to identify family strengths, needs, barriers, and goals.
• Respond to families experiencing crises by providing immediate support, safety planning, and stabilization services.
• Collaborate with families and Family Coaches to create and monitor personalized plans that promote self-sufficiency and long-term stability.
• Connect families with internal and external resources, ensuring timely access to housing, employment, healthcare, childcare, counseling, and other support services.
• Assess eligibility, coordinate emergency financial assistance, maintain required documentation, and ensure compliance with funding guidelines.
• Deliver evidence-based parenting classes, workshops, and one-on-one coaching to strengthen parenting skills and healthy family relationships.
• Accurately document services, assessments, case notes, and outcomes in Salesforce and other required systems while meeting grant and agency guidelines.
• Work closely with MOBCS’s Family Coaches, Adult Education, Employment Services, and Clinical Services, K-12, ELC and other community partners to provide coordinated, holistic support.
• Conduct ongoing follow-up, reassessments, and progress reviews to evaluate goal achievement and improve family stability and self-sufficiency.
• Build trusting relationships, advocate for families, and empower participants to access resources, overcome barriers, and achieve long-term success.
• Participate in agency meetings, staff training, and professional development activities.
• Represent the Family Success Network at community meetings, outreach events, and partner collaborations.
• Support volunteers, interns, and student placements through mentoring and guidance, as appropriate.
• Maintain current knowledge of community resources, evidence-based practices, and grant requirements through ongoing training and continuing education.

Job description

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Family Support Social Worker

Full Time Nashville, TN, US

2 days ago Requisition ID: 1290

Salary: $60,000.00 Annually

Critical features of this job are described under the headings below. They may be subject to change due to changes in our business processes or other business-related reasons.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Family Support Social Worker is responsible for providing comprehensive, trauma informed support to children and families addressing immediate crises, strengthening family functioning, and promoting long-term stability. This position partners closely with Family Coaches to assess family needs, develop individualized stabilization plans, coordinate community resources, administer grant-required assessments, facilitate parenting education, and oversee financial assistance services. Through crisis intervention, resource navigation, advocacy, and evidence-based practices, the Family Support Social Worker empowers families to overcome barriers, build resilience, and achieve greater self-sufficiency while ensuring compliance with program and grant outcomes.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Complete grant-required assessments to identify family strengths, needs, barriers, and goals.


• Respond to families experiencing crises by providing immediate support, safety planning, and stabilization services.


• Collaborate with families and Family Coaches to create and monitor personalized plans that promote self-sufficiency and long-term stability.


• Connect families with internal and external resources, ensuring timely access to housing, employment, healthcare, childcare, counseling, and other support services,


• Assess eligibility, coordinate emergency financial assistance, maintain required documentation, and ensure compliance with funding guidelines.


• Deliver evidence-based parenting classes, workshops, and one-on-one coaching to strengthen parenting skills and healthy family relationships.


• Accurately document services, assessments, case notes, and outcomes in Salesforce and other required systems while meeting grant and agency guidelines,


• Work closely with MOBCS’s Family Coaches, Adult Education, Employment Services, and Clinical Services, K-12, ELC and other community partners to provide coordinated, holistic support.


• Conduct ongoing follow-up, reassessments, and progress reviews to evaluate goal achievement and improve family stability and self-sufficiency.


• Build trusting relationships, advocate for families, and empower participants to access resources, overcome barriers, and achieve long-term success.


• Participate in agency meetings, staff training, and professional development activities.


• Represent the Family Success Network at community meetings, outreach events, and partner collaborations.


• Support volunteers, interns, and student placements through mentoring and guidance, as appropriate.


• Maintain current knowledge of community resources, evidence-based practices, and grant requirements through ongoing training and continuing education.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.

Education and Experience:

• Three or more years of related experience


• Trained in Nurturing Parenting Curriculum as a Facilitator preferred

The above qualifications express the minimum standards of education and/or experience for this position. Other combinations of education and experience, if evaluated as equivalent, may be taken into consideration.

Knowledge and Abilities:

• Ability to build trusting relationships with individuals and families from diverse backgrounds.


• Ability to assess family needs, identify barriers, and develop individualized service plans.


• Ability to effectively intervene during crises and provide appropriate stabilization services.


• Ability to facilitate parenting classes, workshops, and support groups.


• Ability to navigate complex community systems and coordinate referrals with multiple service providers.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.


• Maintains credibility through sincerity, honesty, and discretion.


• Builds and maintains positive relationships with internal and external constituents.


• Strong organizational skills.


• Strong time management skills; uses time effectively; consistently meets deadlines.


• Maintains a high level of confidentiality regarding sensitive information.


• Documents regularly, thoroughly, accurately, and completely.


• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.


• High level of detail and accuracy.


• Exercises good and consistently fair judgment, courtesy, and tact in dealing with the staff and public in giving and obtaining information.


• Computer literate including familiarity with word processing, spreadsheet, database, desk top publishing software, email and the internet.

THE MARTHA O’BRYAN CENTER IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER