Visitation Specialist

Hours: Vary- up to 40 hours
Works with: Foster care staff, children, birth parents, foster parents

Description: 

Fostering Futures is a private, non-profit foster care and adoption agency in Ann Arbor, MI, and offers its staff many benefits beyond meaningful work!

Come enjoy: supportive staff, a warm and friendly office environment with cozy couches and colorful workspaces, FIVE weeks of paid time off per year plus twelve holidays, competitive child welfare salaries, excellent health benefits (largely covered by the agency), clinical supervision for LMSW licensure, an agency committed to ongoing improvement and work in EDI, and longstanding history as a Gold Seal Human Rights Campaign agency, known for its welcoming of the LGBTQ community, and a very flexible work environment.

The assigned worker will be responsible for supervising parenting times and providing a safe, secure environment, physically and emotionally, for children in the foster care system at Fostering Futures’ office or another agreed-upon site.

Qualifications: 

• Should have a bachelor’s degree in a human service field or be working toward one.
• Should be dependable, flexible, and patient.
• Should be sensitive to the needs of the families we work with.
• Should be capable of handling emergencies if necessary.
• Must have reliable transportation and hold a valid driver’s license and car insurance.
• Must have a cell phone and be accessible during scheduled work hours.

Skills:  

• Skill in interacting with people of different social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds.
• Skill in being able to manage change and adapt easily.
• Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with co-workers
• Basic computer skills including Microsoft Word

For more information and responsibilities: See job posting here