About the position
Do you like working with children and families? Then TFI Family Services has the job for you! We are looking for a full-time Relative-Kinship Worker to add to our KS Permanency / KS Case Management Department! All you need is a bachelor’s degree in child and family services field with at least two years’ experience in child and family services. We will teach you the rest! As a Relative-Kinship Worker, you will work to promote the well-being of children. Relative Kinship Workers teach skills such as emotional regulation, having healthy relationships, conflict resolution, and healthy communication within families. Relative Kinship Workers work together with our relative-kinship caregivers to help train and support them and the children in their home. Relative-Kinship Workers help to facilitate kinship meetings and to identify potential kinship and/or relative placement options. Relative-Kinship Workers provide on-call support to caregivers and crisis intervention, as needed. As a Relative-Kinship Worker, you would also coordinate community resources for the children served.
Responsibilities
- Promote the well-being of children.
- Teach skills such as emotional regulation, healthy relationships, conflict resolution, and healthy communication within families.
- Work with relative-kinship caregivers to train and support them and the children in their home.
- Facilitate kinship meetings and identify potential kinship and/or relative placement options.
- Provide on-call support to caregivers and crisis intervention as needed.
- Coordinate community resources for the children served.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in child and family services field.
- At least two years’ experience in child and family services.
Nice-to-haves
- Compassionate and eager to learn.
- Desire to help families and caregivers build on their strengths.
- Strong desire to advocate for children and their families.
Benefits
- Flexible scheduling and remote work.
- 20 days of personal leave in the first year of employment and 25 days after year one.
- 12 paid holidays.
- Longevity bonus.
- Tuition reimbursement.
