What are the responsibilities and job description for the Family Support Specialist position at Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio?
Job title
Family Support Specialist – 260 day contract
Reports to
Principal
Job purpose
- The Family Support Specialist/FSS is a mentor, educator, and advocate to parents.
Duties and responsibilities
- Demonstrates gained knowledge from parenting a child who received intensive mental health services from PEP or other mental health provider(s).
- Possess skills to support and guide diverse groups of parents by understanding their individual strengths and needs.
- Responsible for assisting and empowering parents through skill building, modeling healthy coping strategies, assisting with accessing community resources, and serving as a liaison between Day Treatment Center (DTC) and families.
- Utilize trauma informed care concepts and the RE-Education principals when working with families to maintain hope for growth and change.
- Assist and support families in a culturally responsive manner to empower families to meet the needs of their child.
- Utilizes knowledge of community systems and supports to assist families.
- Facilitate communication between parents/center staff and vice versa.
- Ability to collaborate and coordinate with case managers.
- Participate in staff development activities, parent conferences, team meetings, and staff
- Communicates effectively, both written and orally.
- Demonstrates effective decision-making skills and utilizes good judgment.
- Utilizes safe work practices.
- Ability to work respectfully with a culturally diverse population of clients.
- As a representative of the agency and profession, present self with decorum and in dress that is
- Adhere to PEP and ESC policies and procedures, as applicable.
Qualifications
- Minimally High School Diploma.
- Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations.
- Ability to work effectively with others.
- Demonstrate effective decision-making skills, utilizing good judgment under routine and
- Displays professionalism and team-oriented attitudes.
Physical requirements
- Ability to lift 30-50 pounds.
- Ability to use a computer and keyboard (eye-hand coordination and repetitive movements
- Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, reach, stoop, kneel, and crouch while filing, storing, and
Client Specialist I (Clinical)- Remote Hybrid
Thrive Peer Support LLC -
Solon, OH
