Post Adoption Specialist

Child & Family Services, Inc.; Tewksbury (MA); Presencial; USD 46.000 - 55.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Child & Family Services seeks a dedicated Post Adoption Worker to support adoptive and guardianship families in the region. The role involves home-based interventions, support groups, and respite activities within a full-time 35-hour workweek.

Bachelor's degree starts at $25.50 per hour; Master's degree starts at $30.00 per hour, with a language differential of $1 per hour for eligible languages. The organization emphasizes diversity, equity, and compensation transparency.

Responsabilidades

• Participation in the Regional Response Team, delivering brief, home-based intensive family stabilization services for adoptive and guardianship families.
• Provide a strengths-based psycho-social assessment of the family’s needs and resources.
• Maintain a flexible work schedule to meet regional demands.
• Advocate and coordinate access to long-term supportive services for families.
• Offer information and referrals to families and professionals as needed.
• Design and implement support groups for diverse adoptive families.
• Develop a network of respite providers and coordinate resources within the region.
• Provide training and consultation to providers and professionals in mental health and human services.

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Descripción del empleo

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.

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.
Bachelor's Degree starting at $25.50 per hour / Master's Degree starting at $30.00 per hour
$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.