Supervising Supportive Visitation Specialist - Family Connections : Job Details

Position Title: Supervising Supportive Visitation SpecialistReports to: Associate DirectorBroad Function: Supervising Supportive Visitation Specialist will oversee a team of Supportive Visitation Specialists and provide supportive visitation services.I: CORE VALUESDemonstrates 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.II: PROFESSIONALISMValues 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).III: SUPERVISIONAttends 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.IV: LEADERSHIPMaintains 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.V: DIRECT SERVICEAttends 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.Initiates and maintains ongoing communication with DCP&P, other providers, and supports.Provides support and modeling around appropriate and nurturing parenting.Engages in case presentations and completes timely documentation.Performs other duties as assigned.SPECIFICATIONSEducation & Experience: Candidates must possess a bachelor's degree in social work or related field (e.g. counseling or psychology). Candidates will have at least 2 years in the mental health field, including at least 1 year experience working with children and families. Preferred: Candidates will have experience working with families involved in the child welfare system and/or affected by trauma. *Master's degree preferred.Valid New Jersey driver's license, safe driving record, and vehicle availability are required.Knowledge: Knowledge of the child welfare system, community resources, social services, and mental health systems. Knowledge of trauma and its effect on children and families. Knowledge of HIPAA compliance. General understanding of mental health diagnoses and substance use disorders. Knowledge of resources and/or services in the community for the target population. Knowledge of infant, child and adolescent stages of growth and development. Knowledge of county's local and highway roads.Skills and Abilities: Excellent time management skills. Organizational skills with the ability to manage numerous visiting families and systems of care simultaneously to promote best practices. Outstanding human relations skills and the ability to function autonomously and in a team environment. Effective oral and written communication skills. Effectively solve problems and communicate information, including the identification and communication of problems and/or issues with appropriate team and management staff. Model, coach, support, and mentor parents on the use of nurturing and safe parenting. Excellent computer skills with proficiency and working knowledge of database and reporting tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and/or electronic health record systems. Safely operate a motor vehicle abiding by all applicable traffic laws. Ensure the safety of all passengers through appropriate safety measures including use of seat belts, car and booster seats and/or child safety locks. Comfortability working with families from diverse backgrounds. De-escalation strategies and ability to reach out when support is needed.Professional Characteristics: Open, warm, empathic, attentive listener, self-aware, ethical, creative, organized, flexible, open to constructive feedback, patient, responsible, able to work independently, mature, self-motivated, dedicated, enthusiastic, willing to take on additional tasks and responsibilities, interested in seeking additional training and skills. Experience/willingness to work with culturally diverse populations.Work Environment/Physical Demands: The individual must possess the ability to perform work that requires frequent standing, bending, reaching, squatting, kneeling, moving, and lifting of up to or in excess of 50 pounds. A flexible working schedule with 5 days per week evening availability. Some working time is spent out of the office transporting children and/or parents to and from visits and observing visits in families' homes or in the community (parks, libraries, restaurants, jails, etc.).Family Connections is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to excellence. Employment offers are made on the basis of qualifications and without regard to race, sex, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability, age veteran status, or sexual orientation or other protected classes under the State and Federal law.#J-18808-Ljbffr