Supervising Therapeutic Visitation Specialist

CORE VALUES

• Demonstrates awareness of biases, internalized racial superiority and oppression.
• Lets others know they are aware of their own biases and how they impact their interactions.
• Leads with a racial equity lens and actively uses the racial equity tool in meaningful ways.
• Contributes to valuable and positive cultural humility transformation in individuals, organizations, and social systems to actively progress across the antiracist multicultural institution continuum.
• Demonstrates cultural humility through an awareness of and sensitivity towards Agency’s clients’ and coworkers’ cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
• Believes in the capacity of people to grow and change.
• Works from a strength-based perspective.
• Recognizes that consumers come first and responds to consumers appropriately.

PROFESSIONALISM

• Values and participates in the Team as a proactive member.
• Tolerates a range of feelings and gives and receives constructive criticism.
• Able to give and receive constructive criticism.
• Able to take on extra work as needed (i.e. when there is a vacancy).

SUPERVISION

• Attends supervision consistently and comes prepared.
• Able to receive feedback and learn from it.
• Holds insight about self (i.e., strengths and weaknesses) and utilizes that knowledge towards growth and change.

LEADERSHIP

• Maintains and/or develops expertise in the SVS model.
• Oversees team of Therapeutic Visitation Specialists.
• Facilitates and co-facilitates on-boarding and staff training for team.
• Ensures all vehicle maintenance is completed for clinician-team fleet in collaboration with Coordinator in accordance with vehicle policies and procedures.
• Supports a positive relationship between service and administration that is balanced with accountability, positive morale, and support.
• Supports staff’s facilitation and/or documentation of Visit Planning Meetings when assistance is required.
• Supports staff’s completion of caregiver surveys, assists staff with scheduling as needed.
• Ensures the team’s documentation is complete in accordance with the SVS model.
• Shares on-call responsibilities with leadership.
• Regularly attends chosen sub-committee.

DIRECT SERVICE

• Schedules and conducts visits in the least-restrictive, most home-like location (the first preference being within the family's home) while ensuring the safety of the children.
• Initiates and maintains ongoing communication with families that is culturally sensitive, utilizing family’s preferred language considering a family’s faith and culture.
• Ensures the environment for parent-child contact is safe, non-traumatizing, and promotes healthy attachment.
• Uses strengths-based, solutions-focused, family centered, trauma informed strategies to elicit family input.
• Advocates for parents/families as necessary and supports them in advocating for themselves.
• Uses a process to gather information which includes reviewing collateral information and inquiring about family's natural supports.
• Completes required assessment tools including but not limited to bio-psychosocial assessments, Rose Wentz Matrix and SVS Caregiver Surveys.
• Documents contacts with families in agency's progress notes and DCP&P contact sheets.
• Creates a visitation plan with active familial involvement and updates the plan at regular intervals.
• Facilitates visit planning meetings and participates in other relevant meetings.
• Links the family to community resources, formal and informal supports, and coordinates with DCP&P.
• Collaborates with and shares relevant information with DCP&P staff, other providers, and supports.
• Provides therapeutic support and modeling around appropriate and nurturing parenting.
• Uses clinical interventions and trauma informed approaches to promote behavioral change in caregivers and children through education, modeling, reinforcement, and empowerment.
• Creates an environment that empowers family members, including parents, children, and caregivers to communicate their goals and needs.
• Utilizes various interviewing and/or communication techniques in a culturally competent manner.
• Recognizes non-verbal communication and maintains good eye contact and posture.
• Enhances parental skills by goal setting, modeling, mentoring, reinforcement, feedback and reflection through a trauma-informed perspective.
• Prepares for each visit with caregivers reviewing goals and expectations and encouraging them to be the lead in visit planning.
• Debriefs with caregivers after each visit to allow for processing and self-reflection and discussion of strengths and challenges.
• Provides in-home aftercare services in the event of reunification of families.
• Provides transportation for parents and/or children to and from visitation location.
• Engages in case presentations and completes timely documentation.
• Prepares case presentations and engages in case discussions/consultations.
• Maintains electronic health record and completes all internal and external documentation needs in accordance with program guidelines.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Excellent time management skills.
• Organizational skills with the ability to manage numerous visiting families and systems of care simultaneously to promote best practices.
• Outstanding human relations skills and the ability to function autonomously and in a team environment.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Effectively solve problems and communicate information, including the identification and communication of problems and/or issues with appropriate team and management staff.
• Able to utilize therapeutic approaches with children and families.
• Model, coach, support, and mentor parents on the use of nurturing and safe parenting.
• Able to deliver and score assessment tools.
• Excellent computer skills with proficiency and working knowledge of database and reporting tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and/or electronic health record systems.
• Safely operate a motor vehicle abiding by all applicable traffic laws.
• Ensure the safety of all passengers through appropriate safety measures including use of seat belts, car and booster seats and/or child safety locks.

BENEFITS

• Vacation: As a full-time employee working generally 35 hours per week, you will be eligible to participate in the Family Connections group benefit plans.
• Medical, dental, life insurance, long term disability, retirement plans, and additional supplementary benefits.
• Accrual of vacation, personal, and sick days in addition to 12 paid holidays, and summer wellness Fridays.
• Professional development assistance, referral program, internal/external trainings, Capella University partnership, 403b retirement plan with employer matching (3% max), employer-paid life insurance, employer paid Long-term Disability (LTD) insurance, employer paid Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, etc.

COMPENSATION

• $70,000 - 75,000