DESCRIPTION/RESPONSIBILITIES:
$1,500 Sign on Bonus for Bilingual Spanish!

Are you passionate about helping youth overcome barriers to their successes? Do you enjoy being part of a creative team to help youth with complex trauma improve their day to day functioning? Are you at ease communicating and collaborating with families in both Spanish and English?

As a Bilingual Child and Family Social Worker in Bakersfield, California, you’ll use your leadership skills to see that proper intervention plans are developed and implemented by the Child and Family team in the family’s home or community. Using respect and empathy, you’ll lead the team in providing child-centered, family-focused and strength-based services directly to youth with extensive trauma histories. While spearheading the treatment team, you will see that the focus is on building stronger, safer and more independent families and children. Reignite your passion for helping families in need by using your education and experience to make a meaningful difference in your community.

YOUR OPPORTUNITY
As a Bilingual Child and Family Social Worker in Bakersfield, California, you’ll coordinate, conduct and document assessments, screenings and child and family meetings in homes or community settings. You’ll use a strength-based approach to inspire your team to execute the individualized behavioral support plans for their families. You’ll meet with the support team individually and as a group for status and care updates. At times, you’ll use your rapport and motivation skills to help parents fully engage with the support offered. You will meet with families around their schedules, so some days may begin when school starts, while other days may end around dinner time. You’ll adjust your day accordingly. Participation in after-hours on-call on a rotating basis allows you to provide immediate support to a child and family in crisis.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
You are Bilingual in Spanish and English with a Master’s degree in social work or related field plus two years of experience working with high risk children/youth in child welfare, probation, or mental health systems.

YOUR GROWTH
Aspiranet supports your success at each step. As a social services agency, Aspiranet provides endless opportunities to build a long and varied career path. We believe in providing small caseloads to enable you as a Bilingual Child and Family Social Worker to have a deeper and more creative engagement with your clients. You will have the opportunity to gain group and individual clinical supervision hours as a registered AMFT, ASW or APCC. In addition, we provide ongoing training and career development opportunities that include trauma training, Life Skills Training, Motivational Interviewing, and Community Resiliency Model training. If you have the desire to gain additional skills, you could grow into supervisory or program management roles. There is plenty of room for advancement, both throughout the county and state-wide.

YOUR REWARDS
Aspiranet offers a competitive salary, an exceptional team-based environment, and a great benefits package that includes employer-paid healthcare, dental, vision and wellness care. Aspiranet provides the opportunity to make an important difference in your community.

OUR MISSION
Aspiranet is a one-of-a-kind social service agency dedicated to building a world where all children and youth are loved and cared for, and all families have the resources to thrive. Founded in 1975, our core mission is to help California kids and families. Aspiranet’s services include foster care and adoption family support, residential care, support for youth making the transition from foster care to adulthood, mental and behavioral health services, intensive home-based care, and community-based family resources. We provide services throughout California.

Aspira means hope. We are a network of people bringing hope forward. We look forward to learning what makes you passionate.