Family Services Specialist II

Virginia Beach Department of Human Services is seeking candidates for the position of Human Services Family Services Specialist II in the Resource Development Unit. This position is primarily responsible for providing the recruitment, preparation and assessment of families seeking to become licensed foster/resource parents with the agency.

Representative Duties:

• Partner with the Placement Resource Recruiter with planning, organizing, and participating in community outreach and marketing activities designed to promote fostering children that are in temporary custody of the VBDHS.
• Participate with scheduling and coordinating recruitment events in places such as church functions, PTA, malls, festivals, online etc.
• Answering incoming recruitment calls from the public.
• Document names and addresses on call log, send referral emails to applicants inviting them to initial information sessions.
• Schedule and complete in-home consultations with potential resource applicants prior to invitation to training class.
• Co-facilitate pre-training information sessions (orientation) and co- facilitate National Training and Development Curriculum (NTDC) for Foster and Adoptive Parents.
• Assess applicants throughout the training and write their Mutual Family Assessment.
• Assist with conducting Permanency Assessment Tools (PAT) assessments for potential kinship and fictive kinship foster parents.
• Assist with planning and implementing resource parent retention activities to include participation in in-service training.
• Assist in planning, scheduling and conducting retention activities to strengthen the relationships between resource parent providers and family services specialists.
• Facilitating communication with resource parents in offering supports needed for their successful transition into resource parenting.
• Provide documentation of conversations in OASIS and follow up with Resource Home Human Services Supervisor. Assist permanency Family Services Specialist as needed.
• Assist unit placement coordinator with placement of children entering foster care.
• Continue to support newly approved resource parents through weekly check-ins, offering additional training as needed.

The City offers a generous benefits package which includes health, dental and life insurance, retirement and savings plans, maternity/paternity and parental leave, holidays and Paid Leave.

A $3,000 hiring bonus is being offered for this position. Hiring bonuses shall only be for new hires of original full-time employment or reemployment as defined in Human Resources Policy No. 5.0.

• $500 will be awarded in the first paycheck.
• $1000 will be awarded upon completion of the six (6) month interim performance evaluation with an overall rating of “Meets Expectations”.
• $1,500 will be awarded upon completion of the employee’s one (1) year probationary period and a performance evaluation with an overall rating of “Meets Expectations”.