CPS Family Based Safety Services Worker

(Eastland)

Job Description:

OVERVIEW
After a family has been investigated, a Family Based Safety Services (FBSS) worker helps them make changes to protect their children from abuse and neglect and keep them safe at home. This involves providing services offered by the agency, the family's community, and their extended families.

Essential Job Functions:

• Responds quickly in crisis situations.
• Provides time limited in-home services to meet the specific needs of families by identifying insufficient protective capacities, developing treatment plans, and using appropriate and necessary resources to minimize risk and provide for safety of the child; and maintains contact with parents and children to achieve treatment goals.
• Interacts objectively with “caretakers” who have abused and/or neglected children in their care.
• Discusses issues with families related, but not limited to income, money management, and personal relationships that they will probably consider personal and private.
• Encounters family members who are angry and/or scared.
• Helps identify resources and community support available to the family.
• Assists parents to recognize behaviors that lead to child abuse and/or neglect and empower parents to identify ways to make the necessary behavioral changes.

Salary: $3,816.65 - $5,116.58

Job Order #16572808