Visitation Coach Specialist, San Joaquin Supervised Visitation

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 Visitation Coach Specialist prepares the child and parent for visitation time, 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, increases 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 offer coaching and support to increase knowledge of positive/safe parenting skills, ability/confidence to provide a 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 and identify safety factors to intervene and ensure the safety of all parties.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Coursework or work experience with children, family, and child welfare is preferred.
• A valid CA Driver License with a minimum of three (3) years of good driving history.

Benefits

• 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.
• Education tuition assistance program.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible.
• Flexible spending account (FSA) plans.
• Training and professional development.

Pay

The hourly wage range for this role is $19.00 - $21.00.

Schedule

This is a part-time position budgeted for up to 20 hours per week.