Job Description: Family Placement Coordinator, Sarnia Lambton
Do you have a passion for vulnerable families? Do you desire to serve God through loving the ‘least of these’? Do you like working with people and building teams? Are you a self-starter, assertive, organized and have an entrepreneurial character? Are you a strong communicator who loves holding a team together with your skills, flexibility, and relationship building? Do you love details, administration, and a job well done? If so, come join us at the Safe Families Canada team as the Family Placement Coordinator for Sarnia-Lambton.
Safe Families Canada (SFC) is a faith-based, registered charity that serves the community by helping to keep children safe and families intact. SFC reaches families before their circumstances get to a critical point, warranting intervention from Child Welfare. Prior to involvement with child welfare, families voluntarily place their children with an approved and screened SFC volunteer Host Family while they work through their crisis and maintain parental custody. Safe families staff, volunteers and the church work together to support the parent. Through these volunteers and churches, SFC’s can provide a network of support to families in crisis while they get back on their feet.
SFC understands the needs of families facing a crisis and a parent’s concern for the care of their child. We also know that when “the daily stress for the parent decreases, providing immediate relief, time and space to address the issues that led to the stressful situation, a parent is less stressed, children are safe and there is less risk of Child Welfare needing to be involved”. *
Our Vision: Creating a world where children are safe, and families transformed through radically compassionate communities.
Our Mission: Hosting vulnerable children and creates extended family–like supports for desperate families through a community of devoted volunteers who are motivated by compassionate faith to keep children safe and families intact.
Our Values: Radical Hospitality | Compassion fuelled by Mercy | Disruptive Generosity
Our Objectives
Child Welfare Deflection
Child Abuse Prevention
Family Support and Stabilization
Strengthening Compassion Ministries of the Church
Position Summary: Reporting to the Chapter Director, the Family Placement Coordinator is responsible for the active placing of children in temporary loving homes while their parent/guardian gets back on their feet. This involves overseeing the intake processes and assessments of referrals, managing case files and working with Safe Families volenteers to wrap around families with support. They will engage families and work with a network of local agencies for securing referrals. They will also ensure adherence to program policies and procedures.
Qualifications
- Post-Secondary education in Social Work, Social Services or Education
(an asset, not a requirement)
- Education and/or strong experience in Christian ministry and leadership
- Life experience is also highly valued
- Experience working in Christian churches in outreach ministry
- Experience working within charities, specifically faith-based charities
- A strong understanding and/or experience with social work systems, local community resources, specifically the child welfare system
- Strong organizational and time management skills and the ability to manage and prioritize workload demands
- Ability to exercise sound judgement and ability to work independently or in a team setting
- Problem identification, analysis and resolution skills
- Excellent communication skills in speaking and writing
- Live locally with access to personal vehicle
- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada with Satisfactory Police Record Checks.
- Must be willing and able to implement the core mission and community commitments of SFC
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel and Outlook and their Apple equivalents)
- Proficiency in Google Docs (desired)
Description of Responsibilities and Duties:
- Follows the intake policies and processes of SFC
- Facilitate onboarding supporting churches and adding additional volunteers to our team
- Connects with parents to complete intake paperwork and assessments
- Ensures that practices agree with appropriate policies and procedures
- Works with parents to create a personal goal-oriented plan and set time frame for circle of support
- Works to build the volunteer Circle of Support for each family
- Works to access local community and church resources for family support
- Matching families with volunteers
- Ensures the appropriate use of Safe Families Canada Better Impact© database and other data storage and documentation (Box, paper files) to ensure privacy, confidentiality, due diligence, and excellent management of the Safe Families Canada Movement.
- Assist with fundraising and community outreach events
- Other duties as delegated by Safe Families Canada local Chapter Director
Reporting Structure: The Family Placement Coordinator reports to Chapter Director to ensure volunteer support and positive family progress and outcomes.
*Potential of hiring 2 applicants at 12-16 hrs or a single applicant at 24-32hrs
Classification: Part Time | Hours per Week: 12-32hrs/wk | Salary based on: $22-25/hr |
Start Date: TBD
Applicants are requested to submit a cover letter, resume. If you are selected for an interview, we will ask you to bring 3 references with you to the interview. Please apply to brian.kivell@safefamilies.ca
All qualified applicants who fulfill our conditions for employment will receive consideration for the position. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Disability and other reasonable accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.
We thank all who apply.