Supervisor, Family Services | Clare and Gladwin counties

About the role

As a Family Preservation Supervisor, you'll provide leadership, clinical guidance, and support to a team serving children and families in crisis through the Mi Families Together (MFT) program. You'll help ensure services are delivered with compassion, professionalism, and a strength-based approach while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and hope.

What Your Impact Will Look Like

• Lead and develop a team of child welfare professionals helping families navigate challenging circumstances
• Provide coaching, guidance, and clinical support that helps staff build confidence, strengthen skills, and deliver high-quality services
• Help ensure children and families receive timely, effective, and coordinated support by overseeing referrals, service delivery, documentation, and program outcomes
• Foster a strength-based culture that recognizes the resilience of families while encouraging staff to approach every situation with empathy, professionalism, and respect
• Celebrate victories with your team, help them navigate difficult situations, and provide leadership during moments when experience and guidance matter most
• Collaborate with community partners, service providers, schools, courts, and other agencies to help families access resources and support
• Coach staff through challenging cases, support families experiencing crises, review program outcomes, mentor newer professionals, facilitate team meetings, and help shape the future direction of services

What You'll Bring

• Master's degree in human services and at least one year of child welfare or family services experience (preferred)
• Bachelor's degree in human services and at least four years of child welfare or family services experience (required)
• Minimum two years of experience working with children and families
• Strong knowledge of child welfare practices, family systems, and community resources
• Leadership, supervision, and team development experience preferred
• Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• A commitment to strength-based, family-centered services

Why Wellspring Lutheran Services?

At Wellspring Lutheran Services, we believe families deserve support that recognizes their strengths and helps them build a better future. Our Family Service teams work every day to help children remain safe, strengthen family relationships, and connect families with resources that promote long-term stability and success. As a Family Preservation Supervisor, you'll help shape that work by supporting the professionals who make it happen.

This is more than a leadership position. It's an opportunity to influence lives, strengthen communities, and create meaningful change for children and families.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer matching
• Employee Assistance Program (SupportLinc)
• Professional development and leadership growth opportunities
• Mileage reimbursement within service area
• A collaborative, mission-driven culture
• The opportunity to make a meaningful difference in your community

Schedule

• Full-time, Monday - Friday
• Primarily daytime hours with a flexible schedule, including evening and weekend availability as needed to support team and families
• Supervisor on-call availability to support staff and client emergencies
• Flexible schedule: Home-based & Office-based with travel throughout the community to support staff, families, and partner agencies as needed