KIDS MATTER INC. is seeking a full-time Fostering Healing Team-Trauma Team Lead to coordinate the award-winning multidisciplinary Fostering Healing team. This supervisory position requires an individual who will successfully engage and connect with children and families who have experienced trauma and loss. Experience with child protective services, kinship families, or crime victim services is preferred.
Responsibilities include:
- Engaging and maintaining relationships with children and families
- Conducting trauma-informed assessments and intakes
- Coordinating services within a multidisciplinary team
- Connecting families with resources and helping navigate systems
- Coordinating support groups
- Providing community presentations on services and supporting collaborative partnerships with community agencies
- Overseeing intake system for team
- Quarterly reporting and oversight; ensuring database upkeep to support quarterly reporting
- Coordinating training of team members; onboarding of new team members
- Position reports and works with Executive Director
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in a related field preferred; supervisory experience and experience working with children and families who have experienced trauma required.
- Social workers with 7+ years of experience or equivalent professional experience are encouraged to apply.
Proficient Spanish-speaking candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
This is a full-time position (40 hours per week). Occasional evening and weekend hours may be necessary for community presentations. Full-time salary ranges from $65,000 to $75,000 depending on experience, plus benefits. Benefits include health, dental, vision and short-term disability insurance, life insurance, employer funded Health Reimbursement Account; employee assistance programs and generous paid time off.
Kids Matter Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
About Us:
KIDS MATTER INC. was founded by kinship and foster families, social workers, and others who saw gaps in services for children who experienced abuse and/or neglect and the families who take them in to help them heal. KIDS MATTER INC. exists to open doors of promise and opportunity for foster and kinship children and their caregivers and all children impacted by crime. We help children heal and thrive. We do this by putting the needs of children first, building collaborative child-centered systems of support, and holding accountable those who fail to act in the best interests of children. We advocate for systemic improvements in child services. We build community partnerships, and our child-centered work has been recognized by agencies as diverse as the WI Department of Corrections to the Attorney General’s office, from the Public Defender’s office to the District Attorney’s office. Our programs, youth, volunteers, and staff have received numerous statewide awards.
To Apply: Please email a resume and cover letter to adam@kidsmatterinc.org with the subject line “FHP-Trauma Team Lead.” No calls, please. You may send questions via e-mail only to adam@kidsmatterinc.org. Please include “FHP-Trauma Team Lead Position Question” in the subject line.