Family Services Specialist Administrative / Office
Alexandria , VA Contract Jun 25, 2025
Employment Enterprises, Inc. is working with a client largely populated by professionals working in the military and federal government. We are searching for a Family Services Specialist to utilize clinical skills to assist clients with serious problems in areas such as mental illness, substance abuse, family violence, and family dysfunction to help them develop protective capacities to ensure child safety using community services and family resources. The CPS Intake Worker takes action to provide child protection for clients endangered by physical, emotional, and environmental threats. This position is onsite in Alexandria, Virginia and pays $30.00-$32.00 per hour.
Family Services Specialists Responsibilities:
Completes CPS Family Assessments and Investigations that include child safety assessments, family member and collateral interviews, home visits, and risk assessments of potential future maltreatment.
Provides culturally competent case management services including updating and maintaining data entry of client contacts, writing reports and monthly narratives, gathering data for monthly statistics, preparing service plans and court documents.
Provides crisis intervention, supportive counseling, and specialized casework to assist clients in confronting and resolving emotional and situational problems.
Overcomes client resistance, fosters insight, engages, motivates and guides clients toward agreed upon goals.
Uses culturally competent investigative and assessment skills during interviews of child victims, siblings, offending and non-offending caretakers and collateral contacts.
Determines disposition of abuse and neglect complaints, and assessment of risk posed to clients in accordance with state and local policies.
Refers and assists clients in the use of community resources.
Performs emergency removal of children from their homes when required, places children in foster homes and residential programs, and initiates coordination of services in the foster care placements as needed.
Represents the agency in both civil and criminal court proceedings which involves interpreting laws, filing petitions, preparing court reports, testifying before the court, and preparing witnesses for testimony.
Conducts investigations with State regulatory agencies when abuse and neglect occur in out-of-home settings.
On a rotating basis, provide 24-hour on-call services for CPS and Foster Care cases, and Adult Protective Services. Responds to complaints and/or crisis situations as necessary.
Serves on agency and community task forces to address child welfare issues.
Performs related work as required.
Family Services Specialists Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in a Human Services field; or minimum of a Bachelor's degree in any field with a minimum of two years of appropriate and related experience in a Human Services area
Valid driver's license issued
Good knowledge of social work principles, normal and abnormal human behavior and psychology, child development, mental retardation and social problems.
Good knowledge of current social, economic and health challenges including poverty, homelessness, and mental illness.
Master's degree in a human services field preferred.
Two years of relevant experience preferred.
License eligible in the field of social work preferred.
Fluent and Bilingual in both English and Spanish preferred.
What we offer:
401K retirement plan
Medical and dental benefits for qualifying professionals or Fixed Indemnity Health Benefits
Flex spending account
Credit Union Membership
Pet Insurance
Worker Advantage discount program membership
Voluntary Supplemental Insurance
“Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: Employment Enterprises, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, assign, train, compensate and promote without regard to race, color, sex, age, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, ancestry, U.S. Veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law.”
Employment Enterprises, Inc is the parent company of Temporary Solutions, Inc. Temporary Solutions is a workforce solutions company based out of 10550 Linden Lake Plaza, Suite 200, Manassas, VA 20109. You can reach our recruiters about this job and more at 703-361-2220 or email recruiters@eeihr.com.
