Young Adult Supported Living Specialist (Case Manager)

Job Description

Job Description

Young Adult Supported Living Specialist (Case Manager)

Believing in proper work/life balance and self care, Bridges Homeward operates on a full time, 33.5 hour (4 1/2 day) work week!

The Young Adult Supported Living (YASL) Specialist (Case Manager) is a member of the Family Support & Stabilization Program, which consists of five services designed to stabilize youth and families and ensure that our they have the skills, resources and family connections they need to be successful.  The YASL Service provides services to young adults aged 18 to 22 years, who are ready to transition from a residential/group/foster home living experience to an supportive living arrangement; scattered apartment sites throughout the Boston area.    

  HOW YOU WILL BE MAKING A DIFFERENCE:

• Provide case management to YASL program participants, meeting weekly with assigned resident to ensure:
• Safety, security and cleanliness of each apartment leased by Bridges Homeward
• Health and wellbeing of all clients;
• All documentation, including treatment plans, progress review documents and incident reports are submitted in a timely manner;
• Ensure a creative, constructive, strengths based approach to problem solving with each youth ;
• Empower youth to participate in program decisions and self-future and goal planning;
• Develop permanency plans in collaboration with all youth and supports youth in strengthening family relationships
• Establish and maintains productive working relationships with the group home Program Directors, DCF as well as with community resources such as schools, employment training, employment opportunities, courts, physical and mental healthcare providers and other resources needed to support program goals;
• Prepare and submits reports or case notes as required;
• Supports and provides services to other areas of FSS as needed.
• Participates in rotation of on-call coverage

THE AGENCY:

Bridges Homeward, previously Cambridge Family & Children's Service, is one of the oldest human services agencies in Greater Boston. Founded in 1873 as the Avon Home, an orphanage for local children, Bridges Homeward has a long and distinguished history of serving children, adolescents, individuals and families in the Cambridge area, Greater Boston and its suburbs. Today Bridges Homeward provides services for foster and group care, adoption, developmental disabilities, and family support, all programs that support individuals and strengthen families in more than 100 cities and towns throughout Massachusetts.

  WHAT BRIDGES HOMEWARD WILL DO FOR YOU:

In addition, for an opportunity to join a group of progressive, enthusiastic professionals with a shared passion for human services and child welfare, Bridges Homeward offers benefited employees:

• 33.5 hour work week!
• Professional Development
• Health and Dental Insurance
• 403 (b) Retirement Plan with employer match
• Generous Paid Time off
• Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability and Short Term Disability

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, education or a related field;

• Professional licensure where applicable;

• Minimum of one-years' experience providing case management and/or counseling services to children, adolescents and families; preference given to those with experience working with pregnant or parenting teens or young adults;

• Experience in child welfare services preferred;