Case Aide-Tri County Foster Care-PD (5496)

The House of The Good Shepherd • Watertown, NY

2d • $19 - $19 • Onsite

About The Position

The Case Aide will supervise and provide transportation for visitation. This role involves documenting progress notes regarding interactions with families in Connections and facilitating pre-visitation meetings with birth parents, focusing on Coaching Family Visit strategies and techniques. The Case Aide will also foster productive working relationships between birth and foster families and implement the Sanctuary model of care into visitation, providing guidance to families to meet their permanency planning goals.

Requirements

• High School Diploma
• 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

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 visitation 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED