Parent Partner I-IV

About the Role

South Coast Community Services takes pride in providing staff with competitive compensation, opportunities for professional growth, access to diverse client populations, clinical autonomy, and a strong support system of seasoned employees. The Parent Partner/Peer Specialist provides support and resources to parents/caregivers to promote a successful home placement. They engage, inspire, and facilitate meaningful conversations with clients to assist them in exploring, creating, and meeting their goals. The Parent Partner/Peer Specialist ensures the parent’s voice and choice is respected and implemented throughout the course of treatment, empowering parents/caregivers in achieving self-sufficiency and independence. They provide coaching and support in completing interventions and activities.

The successful candidate will partner with the caregivers of clients to engage them in the treatment process, operating from a strength-based, natural resources, and family voice and choice perspective. They will provide resources to families to support treatment progress and offer more intensive support as needed to sustain the safety and placement of the client.

Responsibilities

• Listen to and assess the parents’ needs and provide relevant interventions, resources, and support.
• Serve as a support person and advocate for parents during Children and Family Team meetings.
• Ensure sensitivity to family culture, values, and beliefs, operating from a family-centered, strength-based perspective.
• Maintain proficient and accurate documentation adhering to all program and contract standards.
• Work in coordination with the client’s multidisciplinary team, including county representatives and schools, in the development and execution of the treatment plan.
• Participate in all required meetings.
• Develop and utilize knowledge of community resources to serve children and their families.
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• Identify as having experience with the process of recovery from a mental illness or substance use disorder.
• Personal parenting experience with an emotionally/behaviorally-disturbed child through the County’s Child Welfare Services, Probation, or Mental Health System, and/or experience with a special needs youth preferred.
• Valid CA driver’s license and proof of automobile insurance.
• Completion of CPR/First Aid/ProACT certification within the first thirty (30) days of employment.

Skills & Abilities

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Microsoft Outlook.
• Demonstrated knowledge of crisis management skills and ability to perform such skills as necessary.
• Ability to remain organized and manage multiple tasks at once.
• Able to establish and maintain appropriate rapport with parents/caregivers.
• Knowledge of parenting techniques, child development, and/or the Child Welfare system.
• Able to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to drive a motor vehicle without restrictions, often in heavy traffic and frequently long distances (one hour or more) to ensure safe transport to client settings and to safely transport clients to appointments as needed.
• Senses of vision, hearing, and smell sufficient to regularly operate a motor vehicle, visualize threats in the environment or risks to clients, and operate safely in the field.
• Required to occasionally lift and carry 10-20 pounds.
• Regularly required to sit, stand, climb stairs (1 or more flights), and walk while in route to and during family visits.
• Regularly required to sit and use a computer in office settings.

Pay

$22.28 - $24.00 per hour.