Home Visitor Job Pleasanton area,Texas USA,Social Work

Job Summary

The Home Visitor is responsible for using sound professional judgment and best practices to ensure quality services are provided to the service population especially in crisis situations while maintaining compliance with established program standards.

Essential Functions

Outreach and recruitment of participants for classes, including efforts for minimizing attrition.

Establishes and maintains a trusting and professional working relationship with families by providing regular contact through personal visits.

Administer intake, assessments, and screening tools to clients and family members.

Utilizes intake and assessment results to establish and effectively implement goals, objectives, and activities identified with parents.

Records all group and individualized services and activities in a complete, concise, and timely manner utilizing program forms into informational software/databases.

Meets with Project Manager/supervisor on a bi-weekly basis to evaluate status of families on caseload.

Measurable Deliverables

Obtains and maintains certification in Safe Care curriculum administration.

Enroll and partner in serving a maximum of 60 clients and provide sessions of services per Texas Home Visiting guidelines.

Provide parent & health education, case management, resource and referrals, basic needs support, transportation assistance, and/or other support services to families on caseload.

Document all attendance on a weekly basis in informational software.

Attend all required trainings.

Provide community education on child abuse prevention strategies.

Develop together with Director, updates, reminders, and community education information.

Requirements

Learn, live and coach one team, one mission culture and values. Lead through change by bringing clarity, generating energy and delivering success.

Pass a pre-employment drug screen and random drug screens and maintain emotional control, and professional composure at all times.

Provide proof or work eligibility status upon request.

Pass a pre-employment and biennial criminal background and motor vehicle check (fingerprints needed if applicant has lived out of state within the past 5 years).

Demonstrate the ability to:

Respond sensitively and competently to the service population’s cultural and socio‑economic characteristics.
Communicate effectively in writing and verbally in English and Spanish.
Work in a fast‑paced environment.
Maintain computer literacy required to meet the responsibilities of the position.
Work effectively and without intensive supervision both independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
Travel locally as needed.
Manage time effectively and efficiently.

Bilingual preferred (Spanish).

Will follow all procedures of the INK personnel manual.

Must possess a current and valid driver’s license.

Qualifications

Academic:
Preferred Bachelor’s degree in a human services field or related field or currently enrolled in an advanced degree program. Required High School Diploma. If applicant does not have 18 hrs of social work on transcript, a Family Services Certificate must be obtained within 6 months of hire. INK will pay for 1st certification test; if failed subsequent tests paid by applicant.

Preferred 1‑year related direct service experience.

About INK

INK is an educational nonprofit that specializes in finding and developing solutions to problems faced by teachers, administrators, parents and students in the educational community.

Services for children and families include:

Preschool
Individualized teaching
Degreed teachers
Bilingual services
Social services
Parent trainings
Meals and snacks
Disability services
Dental exams
Mental wellness
Health services
Field trips

EEO Statement

In accordance with Title

VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other applicable federal and state laws (e.g., the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity and treat all employees equally regardless of race, religion, national origin, color, sex, or any other classification made unlawful or prohibited by federal, state and/or local laws, such as age, citizenship status, veteran or military status, or disability.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, promotion, demotion, compensation, training, working conditions, transfer, job assignments, benefits, layoff, and termination. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

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