Family Support Specialist Pool

This announcement is for a candidate pool. There is not a current vacancy at this time.

The Family Support Specialist is responsible for working in collaboration with professional social/educational services and agencies to obtain health, financial, vocational, and social services for students and families while modeling and enforcing company policies and procedures.  The Family Support Specialist reports to the Principal and works collaboratively with the entire staff, students, and their families to address, mitigate, and/or remove the personal, social, and behavioral barriers that prevent students from being successful.                                                                           

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Coordinate, develop, and implement support systems to meet students’ social, emotional, behavioral, medical, financial, and life skills or other needs in alignment with the School’s vision and mission.
• Use counseling strategies to help students so they can be emotionally and socially prepared to maximize their instructional time.
• Build and maintain positive, cooperative, and effective relationships and conduct skill-building seminars with students, families, community, and colleagues
• Assist with student orientation process and with implementation of the personal-social curriculum
• Stay abreast and informed of current trends, research, and community agency providers and keep teachers, staff, and administrators informed of same
• Perform all other duties as deemed necessary, which are aligned in accordance with Company’s policies and procedures to ensure student educational and behavioral goals and objectives are achieved.

REQUIRED Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in social work, psychology, counseling, sociology, secondary education, or related field required
• Master’s Degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in counseling, social work, sociology, psychology, or related field is required
• Experience in education, social services, and community services that will utilize all skills necessary to assist students to become high school graduates and to acquire 21^st Century skills to become productive and participating members of their communities is required
• Valid driver’s license required
• Effective oral and written communication skills required
• Computer literacy required

• Knowledge of school, local, state, and federal policies and laws relevant to student services, including Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), child abuse, and bullying/harassment

PREFFERED Qualifications

• Minimum of three (3) years experience working with overage and/or at-risk youth is preferred
• Bilingual preferred