Supportive Visitation Specialist

Position Title: Supportive Visitation Specialist

Reports to: Supervising Supportive Visitation Specialist

Broad Function: Provide supportive visitation services.

• 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 QI 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).

• Direct Service Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 DCP&P.
• Collaborates with and shares relevant information with DCP&P staff, other providers, and supports.
• Provides support and modeling around appropriate and nurturing parenting.
  • Enhances parental skills by goal setting, modeling, mentoring, reinforcement and feedback and reflection through a trauma-informed perspective.
  • Prepares for each visit with caregivers reviewing goals and expectations and encouraging them to be the lead in visit planning.
  • Debriefs with caregivers after each visit to allow for processing and self-reflection and discussion of strengths and challenges.
  • Creates an environment that empowers family members, including parents, children, and caregivers to communicate their goals and needs.
  • Utilizes various interviewing and/or communication techniques in a culturally competent manner.
  • Recognizes non-verbal communication and maintains good eye contact and posture.
  • Provides in-home aftercare services in the event of reunification of families.
  • Provides transportation for parents and/or children to and from visitation location.
• Engages in case presentations and completes timely documentation.
  • Prepa…