Child & Family Aide
Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development•Stevens Point, WI
•Onsite
About The Position
Portage County Health & Human Services has a full-time Child and Family Aide opening. This role provides supervised and monitored visitation for families, assists in mentoring, and coordinates schedules with other Child and Family Aides. The position also involves conducting safety checks in clients' homes, including drug/alcohol monitoring, and providing Home and Financial Management (HFM) services to child welfare clients.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalency required
- Must be a licensed driver and have access to an insured vehicle
Nice To Haves
- One year experience with child welfare programs or work with children and families strongly preferred
- Knowledge of mental health and parenting skills strongly preferred
- Experience dealing with challenging clients and/or children under emotional duress strongly preferred
Responsibilities
- Arrange and coordinate supervised and/or monitored visits for parents and children.
- Be within sound or sight for supervised visits.
- Recognize unsafe parenting practices and intervene when safety concerns arise.
- Model and redirect parent to safe parenting practices.
- Contact parents and foster parents in advance regarding visitation.
- Maintain regular communication with the assigned Social Worker.
- Report any safety concerns immediately to the Social Worker.
- Complete documentation for all visitations.
- Provide transportation as needed.
- Include parent education/coaching as requested by the Social Worker.
- Clean visitation room after visits as needed (e.g., vacuuming, disinfecting).
- Conduct safety checks to clients’ homes including drug/alcohol monitoring.
- Collect UAs and give breathalyzer tests as requested.
- Conduct checks at homes and observe for safety concerns as requested.
- Report safety concerns immediately as requested and contact on-call for emergencies.
- Document all safety checks.
- Provide Home and Financial Management (HFM) to child welfare clients.
- Meet regularly with the Ongoing Worker to determine appropriate goals.
- Establish budget within limits of resources and obligation as requested.
- Teach clients mechanics of budgeting including decision-making about priorities.
- Assist clients to seek out employment, or other programs to assist with income.
- Assist clients to seek out housing and develop working knowledge of housing options.
- Assist clients to enhance skills in cleaning, parenting, and basic home management.
- Assist clients to bring their home to a safe and clean condition.
- Document HFM meetings.
- Assist to hold family meetings.
- Attend family team meetings and internal staffing meetings.
Benefits
- Vacation - available on day one!
- Health insurance- your choice of two health plans- (Health Savings Account associated with a High Deductible Health Plan with a County contribution or a PPO Co-pay plan)
- Wellness incentive plan offered with health insurance enrollment! Earn up to $600 per year!
- Flexible spending account
- Dental insurance
- State of Wisconsin Retirement Plan - County contribution of 7.2%
- Paid holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Life insurance- premium paid by the County (must work a minimum of 30 hrs/wk)
- Long term disability insurance- premium paid by the County (must work a minimum of 30 hrs/wk)
- EAP (Employee Assistance Plan) - paid by the County
- 457(b) Deferred Compensation Plan
- Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
