Parent and Child Engagement Specialist

Family Service & Children's Aid is hiring a Parent and Child Engagement Specialist:

Enjoy working with children and parents? Want to help support parents who children are in the foster care system have successful supervised visits? Enjoy planning enrichment activities with young children? Want to help foster parents with providing transportation of youth to the visit with their birth families? FSCA is recruiting a Parent and Child Engagement Specialist to help support birth families during supervised visitations with their children and provide childcare while parents are on-site receiving substance use services. Want to be part of helping to Build Strong Families? We are hiring an individual who:

• Understands basic parenting skills and is willing to assist parents during supervised visits
• Enjoys being around children of all ages
• Enjoy laughing and have a good sense of humor (potlucks too!)
• Is dedicated to improving the lives of children along with their parents’ and family’s life
• Wants to work for a flexible and work-life balanced agency
• Enjoys taking vacations and want generous paid time off (self-care)
• Enjoys a team approach but have ability to be independent
• Wants to have teammates to bounce ideas off of and be able to unwind with after a tough day
• Values an agency that provides much needed services to our community
• Come join our team and be part of a work family that works hard but also knows how to have fun and prioritizes family first.

As a Parent and Child Engagement Specialist at Family Service & Children’s Aid, you will provide supportive services such as transportation and visitation supervision for clients of Child Welfare Programs (foster care and adoption). Assist birth families during visitations with providing basic parenting support along with completing visitations notes reporting on parenting skills demonstrated during the visit and children’s behaviors during the visit. This position can play an important role in assisting families in engaging when separation has disrupted the family dynamics. This position also supports the Behavioral Health’s Parenting Focused Substance Use Treatment Program’s Kid Care program by providing childcare services to the children of clients in Substance Use Treatment Programming. This position is responsible for facilitating a structured play/educational environment and will communicate with parents on a regular basis.

FSCA offers one of the best employee benefit packages in our local community, including the following:

• BCN Health insurance
• Dental/vision insurance
• 403 B (agency contributes when able)
• Life insurance (agency pays for certain plan and employee can increase if would like for small fee)
• Short-term disability
• Generous paid time off (4-6 weeks depending on years of service)
• 13 paid holidays
• 3 employee events throughout the year that are on company paid time (get paid to have fun!)

FSCA provides in-house training opportunities and external training opportunities

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Ability pass a criminal background check and central registry clearance.
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation along with proof of car insurance policy.
• Ability to lift 60 pounds

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with children, childcare experience, or working with families
• Active First Aid training, or willingness to obtain
• Flexibility as schedule does require evening hours for visits, if necessary

When you work with FSCA, you will join an experienced, hard-working team that values flexibility, family and providing quality services to our community. Why just work when you can help build strong families and strong communities?