Bring People Together. Build on Strengths. Create Possibilities.
Sometimes the right support can change what’s possible for a family.
As a Wraparound Services Specialist at CHS, you’ll bring youth, families, schools, behavioral health providers and community resources together around one goal: creating an individualized path forward that builds each family’s strengths and needs.
You’ll be more than a service coordinator. You’ll be an advocate, connector, and collaborative partner helping families navigate challenges, access resources, and build stronger support systems.
If you believe meaningful change happens when families have a voice, a team and the right resources around them, this could be your opportunity to put that belief into action.
What You’ll Do
Turn Strengths Into Solutions
- Assess the strengths and needs of youth and families and help identify strategies for moving forward.
- Facilitate Family Team Conferences, bringing families and professionals together to develop individualized plans.
- Partner with families to address needs related to their plan of care.
- Provide intensive in-home family preservation and reunification support when appropriate.
- Offer education and skill-building activities that support family goals.
Build a Team Around the Family
- Collaborate with families, schools, case managers, care coordinators, mental health providers, and other professionals.
- Advocate for services and resources that meet each family’s individual needs.
- Connect families with mental health, substance-use, domestic-violence and other specialized services when appropriate.
- Participate in school, clinical and other staffing's to keep the family’s needs at the center of the conversation.
- Build and maintain strong professional relationships with families, providers, and community partners.
Turn Support Into Progress
- Coordinate and monitor services to ensure they remain appropriate and responsive to individual needs.
- Provide case management, referrals, and linkages to community resources.
- Track outcomes and family progress.
- Maintain clinical records, billing information, and service authorization documentation.
- Coordinate transportation to appointments when needed.
- Provide or secure crisis and emergency support for youth and families.
What You’ll Bring
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Work or a Human Services-related field.
- Two or more years of experience working in behavioral health, child welfare or juvenile justice, and with children experiencing serious emotional challenges.
- Valid Florida Driver’s License.
- Ability to obtain Targeted Case Manager certification within six months, when required by contract.
Preferred
- Experience with strength-based wraparound services or in-home services.
You’ll Be a Great Fit If You
- See strengths and possibilities, even when families are navigating in difficult circumstances.
- Believe families should be active partners in creating their path forward.
- Are skilled at bringing people together around shared goals.
- Know how to connect families with community resources and services.
- Have strong assessment, intervention, and communication skills.
- Can remain flexible, resourceful and solutions focused when needed to change.
- Are comfortable providing services in family homes.
- Can navigate sensitive situations while maintaining confidentiality and professional boundaries.
- Bring compassion, energy and a genuine commitment to children and families.
Know Before You Apply
This is a hands-on, community-based role. Candidates should be comfortable with:
- Working flexible hours as required.
- Providing 24/7 on-call support per month.
- Traveling to support youth and families.
- Responding to crisis or emergency service needs when required.
Why Choose CHS?
- Make Your Work Matter: Help youth and families access the people, services and resources that can support meaningful progress.
- Work Better Together: Partner with families, schools, behavioral health professionals and community providers to create coordinated solutions.
- Grow Your Impact: Continue building your expertise through hands-on experience, training and professional development.
- Find Purpose in the Everyday: From facilitating a family meeting to connecting someone with the right resource, your everyday work can help build stronger paths forward.
- Build a Career With Purpose: Join a mission-driven culture committed to serving children and families, with a great benefits package that includes generous paid time off and holidays.
- Be the Connection That Helps a Family Move Forward: When families have a strong team around them, challenges can become opportunities for progress.
As a Wraparound Services Specialist, you’ll help bring that team together, connect families with resources and build their strengths to create individualized paths forward.
Bring your experience. Build connections. Create possibilities. Join CHS.
For more information, visit https://chsfl.org/what-we-do/ready-to-grow/.
All applicants are subject to background screening through the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). For more information, visit https://info.flclearinghouse.com