Family Support Worker

Are you energized by helping others? Would you like to make your community a better place for families and children? Embracing Heart Supportive Services has the job for you! Come join our team as a Family Support Worker and help families stay together and come back together. This position helps to ensure safe, nurturing family contact by supervising parent-child interactions, and helps parents learn and improve parenting and life skills through one-on-one assistance.

Our team is dedicated to enhancing the lives of those it serves by meeting the comprehensive needs of individuals, families and their community. As a Family Support Worker, you will work to protect and assist the community’s most vulnerable populations from abuse and neglect and help build strong functional families.

Support case plan goals through teaching, role modeling, and demonstration and provide intensive, hands-on assistance and education to the family in an effort to successfully complete their goals.

• Provides services such as life skills, parenting skills, supervised visitation, in the client’s home or a community-based setting
• Monitors family interactions and client behaviors to identify and protect the safety of all participants and assist in helping clients find community resources and assist in applying, if needed
• Participates in family team meetings, client assessments, stakeholder meetings and agency staff meetings, as well as case conferences, school conferences and court appearances with the family as appropriate
• These services are provided in the family's home or a community-based setting
• Provides transportation of clients, as needed, with personal vehicle
• Completes written timely documentation for the client’s file.

• A bachelor’s degree in a human relations field; or is enrolled in college and is within two (2) semesters of completing a bachelor’s degree in a human services or a related field or...
• An associate degree or some college plus two (2) years of experience or lived experience to be the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree may be considered or...
• A High School diploma and experience in the human services field or lived experience will be considered as well.
• Must pass required background checks and have a valid Nebraska driver’s license free of serious driving related offenses
• Must have access to a reliable vehicle and carry minimum requirements of auto insurance
• Applicant must be at least 18 years of age
• Must be able to present valid documentation showing eligibility for employment in the United States
• Must have the ability to pass physical examinations in accordance with state regulations and drug testing if required and must not have a history of child abuse or neglect

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed