Visitation Coach Specialist

About the role

Wayfinder’s Supervised Visitation program provides parents whose children are in foster care with supervised visitation and coaching services to strengthen parenting skills, enhance parent-child relationships, and sustain family ties. The primary focus on the Visitation Coach Specialist, is to prepare the child and parent for visitation time and facilitates parent and child visitation, coaches the parent during visits to increase parents’ sense of self-worth, empathy, bonding, and attachment to their child, helps parents’ increase the use of alternative parenting strategies to harsh disciplinary practices, increase parents’ knowledge of age-appropriate developmental expectations, and coordinates and facilitates “icebreakers” between parents and resource family caregivers.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate visitation in a variety of settings such as the parent’s home, community and visitation office.
• Provide ongoing assessment of parent interaction with the child and provide coaching and support to the parent increasing knowledge of positive/safe parenting skills; ability/confidence to provide safe and nurturing environment and improve parent/child attachment.
• Use Protective Factors and Nurturing Parenting Program (NPP) Framework with families.
• Provide a safe and nurturing environment for visitation to occur and identify safety factors as they are present to intervene and ensure safety of all parties is maintained.
• Implement trauma-informed and culturally appropriate interventions that increase the ability of parents to interact safely with their children and develop positive and safe parenting skills.
• May transport clients as needed.
• Other duties as outlined in the position description.

Qualifications

• At a minimum, a high school diploma or its equivalent is required.
• A bachelor’s degree in social work or a directly related field from an accredited university is preferred.
• Bilingual (Spanish), highly preferred.
• Coursework or work experience with children, family, and child welfare is preferred.
• Valid CA Driver License with a minimum of three (3) years good driving history and must be approved by the agency’s insurance carrier to drive agency vehicles.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off: Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) policy, 11 paid holidays, plus five winter holidays
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match up to 4%
• Employee referral program: Encourage your colleagues to join us
• Education tuition assistance program: Invest in your career development
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible
• Flexible spending account (FSA) plans
• Training and professional development

Pay

The hourly wage range for this role is $20.00 - $21.00.

Schedule

This is a part-time position budgeted for up to 35 hours/week.