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PRESERVATION CASE MANAGERS - Families First - Full Time 40 hours per week

We are searching for Preservation Workers to join our Samaritas Family Preservation Team! This position will be in our Families First program, covering KENT COUNTY.

FAMILIES FIRST WORKERS!! Are you ready to make a positive change in families lives? Do you have two years field experience working with children and families in a family-centered, solution-focused environment? Do you have a Bachelor’s degree in SOCIAL WORK or comparable human service field?

You can make a big impact with children and families in KENT COUNTY if you have a degree in social work or related field. We are on the hunt for person-centric colleagues to join our Families First of Michigan team doing impactful work! This vital role involves intensive, home-based, 28-day interventions with a two-family-caseload that focuses on the family’s strengths, utilizing their own resilience, as they become self-sufficient. Our staff spend an average of 10 hours a week with these families, face-to-face, with the goal of keeping children with their families. The time spent will be both traditional and non-traditional work hours. Come check us out! We have full time opportunities servicing cases in Kent County.

Welcome to Samaritas Nation!

Samaritas is a Michigan-based human service organization that connects people with families and communities, empowers them to live their fullest life possible, and creates a ripple effect of transformation. The reference to the work of the Good Samaritan in our name is especially fitting as it is consistent with our mission, values and the services our faith-based company provides.

APPLY TODAY! #BeTheRock, creating ripples of positive transformation in the lives of those we are entrusted to serve!

This FULL TIME ROLE has varied shifts including but not limited to weekends and on call as our client needs dictate... with a $43.888.00 to $47,840.00 annual salary.

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Provides intensive, short term or long-term in-home crisis intervention and family education, based on program specification, to at-risk families.

Duties and Responsibilities

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Job Qualifications

Education, Training, and Licensure/Certification

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in any human service field or education preferred, OR Two years' experience working with children and/or families and an associate degree or the equivalent in human services or eeucation and be actively working towards a bachelor degree in human services or education (only when no viable degreed candidate is available).
• Valid driver’s license with good driving record; reliable ongoing personal transportation suitable for safely transporting clients; current automobile registration and proof of automobile insurance

Experience

• Field experience working with multi-problem children and families with ability to relate to and engage with them families preferred
• Experience in strength-based, family-centered, solution focused approaches beneficial

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