Family Service Worker

About the role

As a Family Service Worker, you'll build collaborative partnerships, connect families to resources, and maintain the documentation that keeps services timely and on track.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, enroll, and support eligible families, maintaining accurate and timely documentation
• Build positive and trusted relationships with families that foster engagement, open communication, and partnership in achieving family goals
• Build community partnerships to connect families to resources and services that promote health, stability, and self-sufficiency
• Engage parents through activities that promote child learning and development
• Make specific efforts to actively locate and recruit pregnant mothers, children with disabilities and other vulnerable children, including homeless children and children in foster care
• Collaborate with families to identify strengths, interests, needs, and goals related to the family engagement outcomes, especially family safety, health, and economic stability

Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age and have a high school diploma or equivalent
• Proactive approach to maintaining productive partnerships, ideally with external community partners
• Skilled in active listening and building trusted relationships with others
• Intermediate computer skills in using word processing, spreadsheets, Google Suite tools, etc.
• Previous experience in Head Start/Early Head Start, as well as advanced training/certification or post-secondary degree in human services or a health-related field is preferred
• Head Start/Early Head Start parents will receive preference for employment vacancies for which they are qualified