At Beech Acres Parenting Center, we uncover the natural gifts of children by unleashing the power of parents and caregivers. As a contemporary parenting center, Beech Acres serves over 30,000 people annually through a wide range of services including foster care, kinship care, adoption, behavioral health support in schools, parent coaching and much more. All of our programs are founded in our Natural Strength Parenting™ framework which enables parents to unlock their own potential by building on their unique strengths. For more information, visit www.beechacres.org

Why you will love working at Beech Acres:

Culture That Matters

Intentional. Strength-Based. Mindful.

At Beech Acres Parenting Center we are empowering parents and strengthening kids together. A career at Beech Acres will help you discern your unique purpose, discover and develop your own natural strengths, and learn to be present, fully engaged and accepting in the moment. It’s how we empower our families and it’s how we empower each other.

We're a spirited team that believes in having fun and making an impact in our community and beyond. We’ve built a culture that values our team members’ strengths where we embrace our differences and live the value of Inclusion to all. We believe that cultivating a feeling of belonging among our employees, partners, children and adults in a child’s world begins with a just, equitable and diverse organization. We work towards this through our policies, practices, and our daily personal interaction.  Beyond that, we aspire to influence the systems and communities in which we do our work by providing thought leadership, co-creation, advocacy, and support.

That’s culture that matters.

Our Perks at Work

• At Beech Acres, we take pride in offering you a competitive benefits package, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and other benefits. Your total compensation includes benefits that go beyond wages and are provided to you. Our Perks at Work includes a Bonus Points recognition, Cell Phone Reimbursements, Flexibility in the way that you work, paid leave plans, and best in the city Paid time off plans amongst many others.

• Beech Acres success is dependent upon our people, and our total rewards are designed to create and sustain an environment that encourages and rewards outstanding commitment to client service, personal accountability and the achievement of results. We believe working here offers more value and rewards than just your total compensation. We work in an environment that encourages commitment, spirit and collaboration and we provide outstanding results to our community. We are committed to not only our mission but to your growth and development as an employee and individual.

If you have what it takes and have the heart and passion for helping support families and children, then we invite you to apply to be part of positive change in schools, pediatric offices, workplaces, and our community!

Beech Acres Parenting Center (“The Beech” as we like to call it!) is seeking a Social Worker to join our rapidly growing Foster Care & Adoption team.  The Social Worker is responsible for assessing, engaging and managing a caseload of families and foster children, including: coaching parents as to parenting capability, providing mental health services for children and assist foster parents in maintaining children in foster homes, providing case services in regards to kinship care and to follow the case plan of the referral agent to reunify children with families or make other permanent plans. This is a hybrid position.

$2,500 Sign-On Bonus!

A typical day will include: 

• Completes all intake paperwork and meet with referring agencies to open cases.
• Assesses children and make plans for their mental health needs. Works with team to understand all mental health needs and set plan for work.
• Completes assessments and follows treatment recommendations for work with families and children.
• Coaches parenting skills based on promising practices and evidence-based models.
• Coaches foster parents as to appropriate interventions and meet with children to build their capability and develop new skills.
• Assists in a support group for foster parents on a monthly basis. Support foster parents ongoing to build capability and also assess for rule violations.
• Coaches biological families on parenting skills and understanding the needs of their children during and after reunification.
• Assists in managing children in foster home setting by offering behavioral interventions.
• Provides CPST interventions to assist clients with their mental health needs and be able to bill services to mental health board. Completes all paperwork for mental health and child welfare activities.
• Develops and facilitates the service plan with the child, foster family, bio-family and team. Communicate ongoing to treatment team to update as to progress, issues, and emergencies.
• Works with kin to reunify children with families or make other permanent plans for children.
• Provides crisis support and participate in the on-call coverage.
• Makes referrals needed for care of children.
• Makes referrals as needed for parents in reducing safety factors.
• Facilitates team meetings with children, foster parents and other involved parties.
• Attends any court hearings and offer clinical advice, advocate and educate team as to children’s progress and issues.
• Partners with contractual agents, schools and others to meet needs of client.
• Maintains a flexible schedule to meet the needs of clients and foster children while following all contractual and state rules around visits and monitoring.
• Keeps documentation up to date and accurate per ODMHAS, COA and ODJFS standards. Meet utilization requirements and audit thresholds.
• Attends community meetings, coordinate with funders and collaborate with team members.
• Participates in departmental events to support foster parents.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work (BSW) or related area required plus Ohio LSW/LPC  
• Valid driver’s license; Must maintain agency required auto insurance coverage of $100,000 per person, $300,00 per accident and $100,000 property damage
• A passion for our mission!

Beech Acres is an Equal Opportunity Employer

BAPC provides equal employment opportunities (“EEO”) to all persons, consistent with applicable federal, state and local equal employment opportunity laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, religion, ancestry, military or veteran status, color, national origin, or any other applicable statutorily protected group status under local, state, or federal law. This applies to all phases of the employment relationship including recruitment, hiring, compensation, advancement, and discipline.