Teen Parent Specialist II

Responsibilities

• Plan, lead and implement parenting, educational, independent living skills, and recreational activities during your shift as assigned.
• Build a positive relationship with each program participant and foster positive connections with mothers and their children.
• Effectively manage the group of children assigned to you. Maintain and enforce agency policies and procedures to maintain youth rights and appropriate discipline.
• Actively engage with participants with the goal of fostering positive and age appropriate development of each participant.
• Meet deadlines and document client progress and interactions completely and accurately in accordance with state licensing, contractors, and various funders.
• Engage in professional behavior as a representative of Seton Home with participants, staff, children, school staff, and anyone else who interacts with your role.
• Maintain positive culturally competent relationships with residents and staff.
• Document client progress and interactions via online database(s).
• Follow reporting and notification protocol for serious incidents.
• Administer medication, as needed, to residents and their children.
• Provide input into the development of resident treatment and service plans as appropriate to your supervisor.
• Learn and practice DFPS Client Youth Rights, Minimum Standards, contractor, and funder requirements.
• Assume responsibility for transportation when needed to airport, court, activities, hospital emergencies, and other appointments as needed and when transporter is not available.
• Take care of tender age children 0-5 in the event that the mother refuses to parent the child.
• Apply de-escalation techniques and Emergency Behavior Intervention techniques as trained.
• Gain a working knowledge of policies.
• Possess maturity, sense of confidence, and emotional stability.
• Complete all required professional development assignments in a timely manner.
• Be sensitive to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
• Maintain and uphold agency policies regarding professional boundaries with clients.
• Protect the confidentiality of any information or material obtained in the service with the organization to include but not limited to client names and information, services rendered to clients, donors names and gifts, internal and external investigations or results of any investigations, and financial information.
• Adhere to the Code of Conduct and the Faith and Moral is mandatory.
• Take a solution-oriented approach in interactions and undertakings, as well as being a team member that promotes collaboration and commitment to the Mission and Vision of the organization.
• Attend and successfully complete New Employee Orientation and Training.

Qualifications

• Must complete all required professional development assignments in a timely manner.
• Must be sensitive to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
• Must adhere to the Code of Conduct and the Faith and Moral is mandatory.