Post Adoption Specialist

Child & Family Services, Inc.; Florence (MA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Language differential

Job summary

Child & Family Services, Inc. is seeking a Post Adoption Worker to join a regional team providing home-based interventions for adoptive and guardianship families.

The role requires flexible hours, participation in the Regional Response Team, and coordination of respite services and support groups. The position is full-time (35 hours/week) with compensation considerations including a per-language differential for eligible languages.

Qualifications

• Psycho-social assessment of families and needs
• Ability to coordinate with regional resources
• Strong communication and advocacy skills

Responsibilities

• Participate in the Regional Response Team
• Provide home-based stabilization services to adoptive/guardianship families
• Assess family needs and resources
• Coordinate and train respite providers
• Develop and manage support groups for adoptive families
• Enter data into Journeys database
• Support regional manager and market the program to resources
• Perform other required duties as assigned

Skills

Psycho-social assessment

Advocacy

Flexibility

Team collaboration

Tools

Journeys database

Job description

Summary

The Post Adoption Worker is part of a team providing specialized services to adoptive and guardianship families in the region, including home-based interventions, support groups and respite social activities. This position is full-time, 35 hours per week.

$1 per hour Language Differential! (eligible languages include: Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL)

Child and Family Services recognizes the power in Diversity and believes that Equity is a Human Right.

Child & Family Services carefully considers a wide range of factors when determining compensation including, but not limited to, prior experience, education, certification(s), license(s), skills and expertise, location, internal equity and other factors that are job related and consistent with business need. Our goal is to support, reward and compensate the entire individual. Depending on role eligibility, your offer may include a bonus or other incentives. Therefore, final offer amounts may vary from the amount stated.

Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Responsible for participation in the Regional Response Team, providing brief, home-based intensive family stabilization, services to adoptive and guardianship families
• Provide a strengths based psycho-social assessment of the family’s needs and resources
• Ability to maintain a flexible work schedule
• Provide advocacy and coordination to empower families to gain access to long term supportive services
• Provide second stage information and referral to families and professionals
• Design, track and implement support groups to meet the diverse needs to adoptive families
• Develop a network of respite providers and/or resources within the region. To explore creative solutions to meet longer term needs of families and the program
• Coordinate respite providers and resources within the region and offer ongoing training and consultation to that network of providers
• Develop a team of adoptive parents and/or persons to act as parent and/or young adult liaisons with other adoptive families and individuals. Offer training and consultation to those liaisons
• Coordinate and/or provide training to mental health and/or human service related professionals
• Responsible for providing assistance/backup to the Regional Manager in relation to regional support services and the marketing of the program to other human service oriented resources
• Responsible for the entry of data and record keeping in the Journeys database
• Perform other required duties and responsibilities, as assigned

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.