Family Support Worker

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Schedules in collaboration with social workers and supervises visitation with biological family members, transports child if necessary and completes visit log in FACES.
• Builds working relationships with biological families and foster families to effectively provide support and interventions during monthly home visits.
• Ensures that children living in the biological home are being adequately supervised, and that their needs are being met (educational, medical, physical, and emotional).
• Link families with respective collaborative agencies.
• Ensure that all contacts are documented in FACES.
• Reviews each foster child’s record to monitor documentation of annual physicals and twice year dental evaluations are completed.  Transports foster child to medical appointments as requested by social worker and program director.  Make necessary and appropriate referrals to DC Kids for medical, dental, psychological and therapy services.
• Will take clients to medical screenings per placement change.
• Transport children to and from school (until DCPS transportation service starts) when foster children are moved from one home to another for emergency respite.
• Coordinate and assist with Family-Based Team Meetings.
• Teams with Family Wellness Worker in identifying Kinship Permanency Resources through case mining family records and face-to-face contact with biological families.
• Must be available to work some evening hours.

Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

Qualifications :

Physical Demands / Work Environment :

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required y this job require close vision working with a computer monitor. While performing the duties of this job, employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. While performing the responsibilities of the employee’s job, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the individual may encounter. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Salary : $55,000 - $62,000 Annually