Family Case Manager

Company Overview

Advocate Program, Inc. is a multi-faceted community agency whose mission is to facilitate social change and enhance public safety through leadership, research, education, supervision, and services, utilizing best and evidence-based practices.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, human services, or related field.
• Bilingual English/Spanish or English/Creole
• Obtain Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths standard CANS comprehensive 3.0 Certification within 30 days of hire.
• Minimum of two years working with children, youth, and families in community and home-based settings.
• Knowledge of Miami-Dade community and resources preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Able to work with teams
• Strong commitment to the prevention of juvenile delinquency.
• Strong commitment to working with families from their strengths and protective factors.
• Ability to work independently.
• Strong computer skills (Microsoft, word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• Highly organized, self-motivated, flexible, and attentive to detail and accuracy.

Responsibilities:

• Provide intensive home-based services in partnership with family to create a Success Plan, make referrals, facilitate access to services and monitor to ensure that all components of Success Plan may be accomplished
• Receives cases assigned by Program Manager and maintains a caseload of 15-25 families, schedules home / community visits with families for intake and assessments.
• Assist with collection of pre and post-data on families.
• Works effectively with team members and provides assistance to the Child and Family Specialist.
• Convenes child/family specific team, provides facilitation of Success Plan of services.
• Enter Success Plan in database and track service access, barriers, and gaps.
• Work with families in scheduling service appointments and monitor service utilization.
• Attends staff meetings, conferences, and workshops regularly to upgrade professional skills.
• Maintain filing system for all cases and keep records of all contacts with families and providers
• Work with the family to identify long-term, ongoing community helpers from among their service providers and natural helpers
• Through ongoing relationship building with the family, help facilitate nurturing, contingent, parent-child interactions.
• Participate in group supervision/case conferencing and schedule individual supervision meetings.
• Miscellaneous Duties distributed by the Program Manager and Program Director.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $53,581.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Language:

• Spanish (Preferred)
• Haitian Creole (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $53,581