Child & Family Specialist

Description

Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services is a faith‑based Christian organization. Guided by Christ’s love, we empower children, young adults, and families by nurturing their strengths, resilience, and faith. We strive to serve like Jesus, meeting our clients where they are and treating them with respect. We focus on our clients’ strengths rather than their problems and encourage them to focus on their future rather than their past.

When we do this well, we help our clients find hope and know the love of God.

Job Type: Full‑time

In response to this community‑wide challenge, Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services (PCHAS) provides 14 programs and services in 28 locations in Texas, Missouri, and Louisiana. In all of our programs, we seek to provide children with permanent homes and adults with increased self‑sufficiency. This is accomplished by the agency’s commitment to “The PCHAS Way,” which inspires the agency to be strength‑focused, family‑centered, and goal‑driven with every client.

Benefits of serving children and families in need through PCHAS include competitive salaries, flexible work schedules, paid time off, medical, dental and vision insurance options, voluntary life insurance, paid holidays, and a generous retirement plan (the agency matches an employee’s contribution after one year of service and 1,000 hours worked).

Status: Exempt

This position will provide strength‑based services to children and their families. The role reports to a Child & Family Supervisor and may include in‑home case management, attachment‑based parenting curriculum, and counseling services in certain locations.

• Be knowledgeable of local needs and available services for children and families.
• Publicize PCHAS presence as a professional liaison with the social service community and speak at churches and community groups when requested.
• Make home visits to conduct needs assessments, develop service plans, and provide holistic case management to meet individualized needs of the family.
• Provide psycho educational parent training to equip families in demonstrating these skills with their children.
• Assist and encourage families to advocate for and coordinate all needed services toward the goal of achieving self‑sufficiency.
• Maintain all documentation in the CSWIS data system ethically and timely.
• Communicate, collaborate, and organize with community partners to provide the best possible community resources for children and their families.

• Position is most often housed in a Presbyterian church with normal office equipment (laptop computer, copier, office furniture). The majority of work is outside the office doing home visits and resource networking. Reliable transportation with an acceptable driving record is required.
• BSW or equivalent with at least two years of experience working with children and families. A Master’s Degree and licensure is strongly preferred, and clinical licensure is encouraged.
• Competence in conducting assessments, service planning, case management, and delivering parenting psychoeducation.
• Ability to work with a variety of human problems and manage crisis intervention.
• Strong social‑work skills to promote empathy and positive professional/client relationships.
• Excellent organizational, time‑management, and flexibility in work hours.
• Proficiency with computer skills and efficient documentation within a client‑based computer system.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Must hold a valid driver’s license, maintain a risk‑free driving record, and be willing to undergo initial and periodic child abuse/neglect, criminal history, sexual offender, and child/elder care disqualification list screenings.
• Must submit fingerprints for review by the state of employment and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
• Must undergo a pre‑employment drug screen and a pre‑employment physical with results showing no evidence of communicable disease.