TRI COUNTY FOSTER CARE - PER DIEM CASE AIDE en The House of The Good Shepherd

Description

This is not a full-time position.  Hours would be 15-20 per week.

Supervise and provide transportation for visitation. Document progress notes regarding the interactions with the families in Connections.  Facilitate pre-visitation meetings with birth parents, focusing on Coaching Family Visit strategies and techniques.  Facilitate productive working relationships between birth and foster families. Implement the Sanctuary model of care into visitation while providing guidance to the families in their areas of needs to meet their permanency planning goal.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in weekly staff meetings
• Provide approx.15 hours of supervised visitation to the families in care
• Provide approximately 5 hours of pre and post vitiation meetings with birth families to focus on Coaching Family Visit strategies and techniques
• Provide approximately 8-10 hours of transportation time to the families in care
• Provide approximately 5 hours of documentation
• Assist the program in ensuring that the vehicles, visitation rooms and community areas are in working order
• Communicate strengths and areas of need of both the foster families and the birth families to the workers assigned to the case
• Complete related tasks/duties as assigned by Visitation and Operations supervisor/Treatment Team supervisor 

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma and a minimum of one year of successful human service experience working with high risk population and/or community based services.
• Valid New York State Driver's License