District Family Services Worker – Hartford – Interim Full Time

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Overview

The Department for Children & Families’ Family Services Division
Hartford District is seeking professional level Interim Family Services
Workers to join our team of dedicated staff in supporting children,
families and communities. Our goal is to promote safety, permanency,
wellbeing and law abidance for children in need. Your role may involve
conducting assessments related to child abuse and neglect or delinquency
and/or providing ongoing services to at-risk families, children in state
care, or youth on juvenile probation. We work in partnership with
parents, relatives, educators, law enforcement, community-based service
providers, courts, foster parents, and others. The work we do is
meaningful, challenging and critical to the safety and well-being of
Vermont’s children and families. This is an interim position lasting
approximately 3 months, potentially longer.

Environmental Factors

Duties are performed in a variety of setting ranging from departmental
offices, client homes, courtrooms or alternative staffing sites.
Considerable field travel is required, for which private means of
transportation must be available.

Crisis situations may arise at any hour and may require evening or
weekend responses. Incumbents predictably encounter high levels of
stress and emotional situations, strong differences of opinion, and
potentially exposure to physical danger. Class incumbents may be
required to be on available or standby status during night, weekend, and
holiday hours.