Family Preservation Specialist

This position includes a $1,500 Signing Bonus. $3,000 Relocation Bonus available Note: Internal candidates do not qualify for the bonus.

This position is based out of your home office in Maine and requires significant travel, with 50% of your time spent in the community providing in-home and local support to families. Candidates must be able to serve clients in the listed Maine counties: Hancock, Knox, Lincoln, Penobscot, Waldo, Northern Aroostook and Washington

Rooted in our Christian faith, Bethany Christian Services works to ensure children are safe, loved, and connected through family. Across 29 states, we strengthen families, support foster care and adoption, and walk alongside refugees with compassion. Here, living out your faith means using your gifts to bring hope and make a lasting impact.

As a Homebuilders Specialist, you’ll support families at risk of separation due to challenges like neglect, substance use, or conflict. Through the Homebuilders model, you’ll provide intensive, in-home services that help families stay together, build on their strengths, and keep children safely at home.

• How Your Role Makes a Difference
• Conduct interventions that are consistent with HOMEBUILDERS standards;
• Conduct data collection, and reporting in a thorough and timely manner;
• Provide client-interactive, comprehensive, strength and behavior-focused assessments;
• Work collaboratively with family members and referents in developing intervention goals and service plans directly related to the risk of out-of-home placement, while monitoring the progress, analyze barriers to goal achievement, and help families revise goals or plans as needed;
• Serve as a client and family advocate, while also providing concrete goods and services such as transportation as it relates to the family's goals and teach them how to meet these needs on their own;
• Serve as a back-up and support other specialists, as needed;
• Comply with service definition and guidelines outlined in the HOMEBUILDERS standards for services;
• Assess the safety and structure of the home environment and use intervention strategies that promote safety;
• Maintain clear and concise documentation of treatment efforts;
• Available to clients 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, while also arranging the appropriate coverage, when needed;
• Keep up-to-date and accurate client progress notes for all activities and submit reports in a timely manner in accordance with contract requirement, agency expectations, and program policy;