Services Specialist Assistant 8-E10; FTS; Crawford​/Oscoda

Job Title

The position performs a variety of activities to support the implementation of case plan implementation and permanency planning for socially and economically disadvantaged individuals who receive services in the areas of child welfare.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) mission is to provide opportunities, services, and programs that promote a healthy, safe, and stable environment for residents to be self-sufficient. This position will perform a variety of activities to include accompanying Services Specialist on visits with youth and family members, transporting family members to facilitate family involvement, reporting observations made during visits to the Services Specialist and proposing recommendations as needed, participating in Team Decision Meetings, assisting the Services Specialist in interviewing and engaging with relatives and prospective adoptive parents, assisting the Services Specialist in the home study, supervising parent-youth, sibling, relative and/or potential adoptive relative's visitations, observing interactions, interceding when required, and reporting any incidents/observations to the Services Specialist.

Completion of two years of college (60 semester or 90 term credits) with a minimum of 15 semester (23 term) credits in one or a combination of the following human services areas: social work, sociology, psychology, forensic psychology, education, community development, law enforcement, behavioral science, gerontology, special education, education of the emotionally disturbed, education of the gifted, family ecology, community services, family studies, family and/or child development, counseling psychology, criminal justice, human services, a human services-related counseling major, or interdisciplinary studies in social science.

Experience Services Specialist Assistant 8 No specific type or amount is required. Services Specialist Assistant 9 One year of experience equivalent to a Services Specialist Assistant
8. Services Specialist Assistant E10 Two years of experience equivalent to a Services Specialist Assistant 8 or one year equivalent to a Services Specialist Assistant 9.

Position Location:

The physical location of this position is Crawford County DHHS, 2450 S I-75 Business Loop, Grayling, MI 4975 or Oscoda County DHHS, 200 West Fifth Street, Mio, MI 48647. Based on operational needs and within established limits, remote work and alternate or hybrid work schedule requests for this position may be considered. Selected candidates who have been approved to work remotely or a hybrid schedule must complete that work within Michigan.

Candidates should confirm work location and schedule at the time of interview. This position is only open to all qualifying candidates.