Encompass Foster Care Specialist

The role

The Encompass Foster Care Specialist provides peer-to-peer mentoring to foster families. This role involves support, education, and stabilization for caregivers navigating needs or crisis.

What you will do

• Engage foster parents in peer support services through in-person visits, collateral contacts, case conferences, and virtual group services.
• Maintain professional boundaries when sharing personal experiences as a foster parent.
• Conduct Protective Factors assessments.
• Develop individualized treatment plans with foster parents.
• Reevaluate treatment plans a minimum of every three months.
• Assist foster parents in addressing barriers to accessing behavioral health services and community resources.
• Assist foster parents with building skills to meet the behavioral health needs of children through education, support, coaching, modeling, and guidance.

Required qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent
• At least three years of experience as a foster, kinship or adoptive parent for the Department of Children and Families
• Valid driver’s license
• Reliable transportation to and from work and for providing community-based services

Nice to have

• Bachelor's Degree
• Bilingual candidates fluent in Spanish or Haitian/Creole

Benefits

• Vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401(k) with employer match
• Discounted fitness services
• Access to trusted childcare resources
• 100% company-paid life and accidental death insurance
• Ongoing training
• Career advancement programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leadership development

About the company

The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) is a division of Eliot. Eliot is a mission-driven team committed to resilience, empowerment, and lasting change.