Family Support Specialist

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Part Time Bon Air, VA, US

2 days ago Requisition

This position is responsible for enhancing child and family relationships by providing parent education, parent skill development and parent coaching as well as supervised visitation and visit coaching. Services are provided in the office, in the client’s home, and in the community. Service delivery focuses on trauma informed parenting, supporting healthy attachment, child growth and development, childcare, safety, health and nutrition, resource development, appropriate discipline, and developing natural supports.

• Knowledge of family systems, community resources, child development, adolescent behaviors, and mental health issues.
• Must possess necessary skills and abilities to make appropriate independent decisions but also be able to function as a member of a team.
• Able to work closely with supervisor and to take direction as needed.
• Ability to make vital crisis decisions on the job to effect change.
• Must possess the skills to form relationships with families.
• Must be able to provide strengths based culturally competent services.
• Must possess ability to exercise initiative to solve problems, make decisions, establish priorities, and coordinate work activities.
• Must possess ability to interpret and implement department policies, procedures, and systems.
• Must understand the varying socioeconomic statuses and lifestyles with respect for individual differences.
• Provide service in a non-judgmental manner.
• Ability to be empathic.
• Exhibit emotional maturity and patience.
• Exercise sound judgement.
• Able to follow Department of Child Services mandates for delivery of services.
• Belief in the family preservation philosophy.
• Understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA & Hope Tree policy.
• Must demonstrates organizational and time management skills.
• Punctuality to meetings, client sessions, and other work related commitments.
• Effective leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate excellent written, oral, and electronic communication skills.
• Demonstrate strong planning and execution skills.

• Receive and staff parent support referrals in a timely manner;
• Initiate services in a timely manner after obtaining purchase order from referral source.
• Assess parents' needs and strengths, as well as their ability to apply the knowledge and techniques learned, to their parent-child relationships through ongoing assessments, observation, and interviews. Staff cases with Supervisor for guidance.
• Develop short and long-term parentings goals with measurable outcomes.
• Plan and prepare appropriate interventions for clients using identified parenting curriculum and in alignment with recommendations for court service plans and parental capacity and parental attachment assessments.
• Coordinate and facilitate supervised visitation and/or visitation coaching for assigned cases.
• Coordinate and facilitate parent coaching and parent support services for assigned cases.
• Establish and maintain positive rapport and professional relationship with clients to facilitate positive change and achieve the client's service plan goals.
• Establish and maintain positive, collaborative, professional relationships with the custodial agency, CASA, GAL, and other team members.
• Provide service coordination with referral source and other involved professionals to ensure service continuity.
• Utilize data to track effectiveness of services; maintain and provide documentation of service outcomes for annual outcome measures report.
• Maintain client record for each assigned case.
• Provide thorough documentation including treatment plans, progress notes, monthly reports and assessments and submit documentation within required deadlines.
• Submit billable hours to immediate supervisor weekly.
• Prepare for and engage in supervision, staff meetings and file reviews.
• Demonstrate cultural competency by respecting the cultural and socioeconomic diversity of the children and families served by the agency.
• Establish and demonstrates appropriate time management in carrying out his/her job.
• Exercise appropriate professional boundaries in relationships with co-workers, clients, provider families, and community providers.
• Show a commitment to professional development by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional…