Family Life Specialist
Family Life Specialist may be responsible for foster care, family support, visitation, and drug screening. Guide and teach parents in addressing behavioral or other identified areas of improvement within the home.
- Advocate for the family ensuring all physical and emotional needs are met. Support the family while assisting them to meet their needs with compassion.
- Provide supervision, when required, to ensure safety for visits between child(ren) and his/her biological parents.
- Provide transportation for children to and from visitation. Assist families in locating community resources to assist their family needs.
- Develop and implement corrective action plans to address skill areas needing further development to assist families in meeting their goals set forth by the Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services.
- Be available to support In-home families, be available for crisis management, and other possible phone calls 24 hours per day.
- Must have a Bachelor’s Degree in human services, such as, but not limited to, a Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, and Early Childhood Development, or a related field.
- The Family Life Specialist may also be enrolled in college and be within two semesters of completing a Bachelor’s Degree in human services or a related field.
- Must be at least 21 years old.
- Will work out of the Beatrice office, but can be located anywhere in South-eastern Nebraska.
- Provide Computer and phone, pay milage if company car not available.