Family Services Specialist II

Family Services Specialist II (Foster Care)

Location:

Manassas Park, Virginia, 20111

Department:
Family Services

Position closing:
Jan 9, 2026 – 00:00 EST

Hiring Range: $66,749.00 to Commensurate With Experience

Full Time

A Family Services Specialist II provides intensive, specialized, culturally competent services to children and families, with complex psychosocial diagnoses and histories of abuse/neglect, to ensure the safety and well‑being of children in foster care, while working toward permanency within State/Federal timelines. The work may involve providing independent living services to foster youth not living in a family‑like setting, while maintaining family supports.

The work may also include ongoing support services or prevention services; to support a relative or interested party, who may have stepped forward to raise the child/ren or services to prevent child abuse/neglect, if the child/ren are reunified with a prior custodian.

• Provide case management services for children/youth in foster care.
• Conduct monthly face‑to‑face visits with each child/youth in foster care.
• Document monthly face‑to‑face worker visits, Structured Decision‑Making tools, and mandated screens (court, and if applicable education and independent living, etc.) in OASIS.
• Secure funding for needed services through the Family Assessment and Planning Team process.
• Meet with supervisor regularly to address the case direction, services, and needs.
• Complete Medicaid and Title IV‑E redeterminations.
• Maintain and document regular contact with foster care children/youth, community partners, parents, relatives, and providers via face‑to‑face contact, e‑mail, or phone.
• Facilitate monthly treatment team meetings which focus on safety, well‑being, and permanency on each assigned foster care case.
• Develop, write, and submit Foster Care Service Plans and Reviews.
• Represent the Department in court proceedings to include interpreting laws, filing petitions, compiling evidence, preparing court reports, and testifying.
• Provide or arrange transportation on each foster care case for visitation, appointments, school, etc.
• Use creative strategies to intervene with varied client populations.
• Coordinate with peers and community partners to develop plans of service to meet the social, health and emotional needs to resolve client challenges.
• Prepare social histories, psychosocial assessments and develop treatment plans.
• Provide specialized casework to assist clients in confronting and resolving emotional and environmental problems.
• Collaborate with the Independent Living Coordinator to ensure foster care youth receive needed life skills training and assessments.
• Collaborate with public school systems to meet the educational needs of foster children/youth.
• Provide continuous 24‑hour on‑call service for foster care cases and immediate response to child protective service complaints and/or cases crises during working hours and on a 24‑hour on‑call rotating basis.
• Provide crisis intervention to foster children/youth or their families.
• Guide case planning in accordance with local, state, and federal foster care policy. Reviews all policy changes when implemented.
• On call rotation responsibilities.
• All other duties assigned.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities that promote antiracist practices, diversity, equity, and inclusion in service provision, including support of racial equity work within the Department. Knowledge of normal and abnormal human behavior as well as child development, and different psychotherapy modalities. Knowledge of social work principles, social work ethics, human behavior, and group behavior. Knowledge of loss and grief, family dynamics and family systems.

Knowledge of mental illness and intellectual disabilities in adults and children. Knowledge of family engagement tools and techniques. Ability to collect and analyze data and work independently. Ability to interpret laws, policies and regulations concerning child welfare. Ability to develop appropriate permanency plans. Ability to facilitate meetings and collaborate with community partners. Ability to communicate clearly and…