Supervising Supportive Visitation Specialist

Position Title:

Supervising Supportive Visitation Specialist

Reports to:

Associate Director Broad Function:
Supervising Supportive Visitation Specialist will oversee a team of Supportive Visitation Specialists and provide supportive visitation services. I: CORE VALUES

• Demonstrates awareness of biases, internalized racial superiority and oppression. 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.
• Committed to the value of a nurturing family as the ideal environment for a child and 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.
• Knows and adheres to all FC Policies and Procedures.
• Participates in a Quality Improvement subcommittee and keeps abreast of and adheres to QI policies and procedures.

• Values and participates in the Team as a proactive member.
• Respects others’ professional opinions and tolerates a range of feelings.
• Able to give and receive constructive criticism.
• Willing to take on extra work as needed (i.e. when there is a vacancy).

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

• Maintains and/or develops expertise in the SVS model.
• Oversees team of Supportive Visitation Specialists.
• Facilitates and co-facilitates on-boarding and staff training for supportive visitation team.
• Ensures all vehicle maintenance is completed for supportive visitation specialist’s team fleet in collaboration with Coordinator in accordance with vehicle policies and procedures.
• Be an active, positive stakeholder in the communication feedback loop among administration, supervising visitation specialists, and all direct service staff. Support a positive relationship between service and administration that is balanced with accountability, positive morale, and support.
• Support staff’s facilitation and/or documentation of Visit Planning Meetings when assistance is required.
• Support staff’s completion of caregiver surveys, assists staff with scheduling as needed.
• Ensures team’s documentation is complete in accordance with the SVS model.
• Share on-call responsibilities with leadership.
• Regularly attends chosen sub-committee.

• Attends all necessary trainings in compliance with the SVS model.
• 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:
    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.
• Initiates and maintains ongoing communication with DCP&P, other providers, and supports.
  • Links the family to community resources, formal and informal supports, and coordinates with…