Independent Living Support Worker

EmberHope, a leading, faith-based provider of child welfare services, is committed to helping you succeed as an employee as you work to make a difference in the life of a child either directly or by offering administrative support. The company strives for a positive work environment that encourages effective teamwork, trauma-informed practices, and opportunities to utilize leadership skills. Team members from all departments will focus on carrying out the EmberHope mission, vision, and values.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in social work or related field required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a trauma-informed focus on creating a safe and supportive environment for staff and those served through knowledge, sensitivity, respect, and a focus on resilience and recovery.
• Work as part of a team to access resources, plan, and advocate to improve the quality of people's lives.
• Teach skills such as emotion regulation, having healthy relationships, conflict resolution, and healthy communication within families.
• Teach relevant life skills and demonstrate the ability to transform daily living activities into learning opportunities to assist youth in the development of independent living skills.
• Provide services to improve youth proficiencies in independent living skills by providing direct consultation, direct service, and referrals for all youth.
• Develop an individualized transition plan in consultation with youth reflecting their needs.
• Facilitate transition plan meetings separate from regular case plan meetings.
• Visit with youth face-to-face in their home or community as identified in the learning plan and case plan.
• Help youth access local resources in their community to progress in academics and/or the workforce.
• Provide direct service to youth, including learning plan development and completion of the Casey Life Skills Assessment.
• Support Department of Children and Families (DCF) efforts to implement SOUL (Support, Opportunity, Unity, and Legal Relationships) permanency option.
• Engage the youth in a meaningful relationship and utilize assessment and case planning to guide services.
• Help the youth navigate the child welfare system, while ensuring safety needs are assessed and addressed.
• Visit with the youth one-on-one at least monthly to support progress toward independent living goals.
• Identify and remove barriers to achieving permanency for the youth.
• Utilize assessments to make appropriate placement for the youth.
• Attend court hearings and submit timely court reports.
• Achieve timely permanency preferably through either adoption, guardianship, or SOUL.
• Document all work and submit 100% of documentation per company policy.
• Work collaboratively with IL Coordinators and other case management team members, stakeholders, and the Department of Children and Families (DCF) IL Liaisons.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory board requirements including maintenance of required CEUs and maintaining your license in good standing.
• Follow company policy and procedure and operate according to the company's program practice guidelines.
• Back up on-call to the on-call department as needed.

How You Will Spend Your Time

• 40% Case Management
• 20% Collaboration & Meetings
• 20% Assessments & Reports
• 20% Timely Documentation

Additional Information

• Relocation expenses not covered.
• No management responsibilities.
• Hybrid work arrangement.