What are the responsibilities and job description for the Social Worker - Kinship Specialist position at UMFS?
Job Description
Job Description
Who we are :
UMFS is a nonprofit organization that provides a comprehensive array of programs to support children, teens, and parents as they work to overcome challenges. We equip families with tools for success so they can achieve their goals. As a national leader in helping young people and families, we also proactively identify unmet social services needs and develop the necessary partnerships to address those needs.
What we do :
UMFS Treatment Foster Care offers individualized treatment for children and teens who are being placed out of home and have special emotional, behavioral, or medical needs. Our youth and families are supported by a collaborative team of specially trained clinical staff and foster parents, who provide daily behavioral health interventions that align with each child’s individualized treatment plan.
What we are looking for :
A Kinship Specialist that will support the goals of timely reunification and permanency by facilitating the search, engagement, and placement of youth with relatives or fictive kin within 90 days of referral. The Kinship Specialist’s primary focus is on youth in congregate care, and older youth, residing in non-relative home-based care for twelve months or longer.
What you will need :
Master’s in social work or related field with one year direct practice experience providing adoption services; or Bachelor’s degree and two years related experience in adoption, parent recruitment, and case management.
Why Work at UMFS?
UMFS has been an unwavering champion for children, teens, and families for more than 120 years. Our main campus is in Richmond, Va., and we offer nearly 20 programs at nine locations throughout Virginia.
Work-life balance is critical to the health and well-being of our employees, which is why we offer generous paid leave, 12 paid holidays, flexible workspaces, and comprehensive health benefits options that include an Employee Assistance Program, vision, and optional dental. We also offer pet insurance. UMFS employees are eligible for a 401(k) with employer match.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is at the forefront of all we do at UMFS, and we maintain a culture of acceptance in which crucial conversations are encouraged. UMFS doesn’t exclude anyone on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, religion, or economic background.
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