Visitation Aide - Supportive Visitation Services

Acenda Health•Mount Holly, NJ

About The Position

Acenda Integrated Health provides 100+ behavioral health programs, including mental health services, crisis care, substance use recovery, family therapy, maternal and pediatric support, and residential programs across New Jersey. Our team enjoys competitive benefits, work-life balance, professional development, and team engaging events. Acenda is recognized as a multi-year Top Workplace by USA Today and The Inquirer and a Top Workplace Culture award winner for Work-Life Balance as well as Joint Commission accredited and certified by MHCA and the New Jersey Alliance for Children, Youth, and Families. The Visitation Aide facilitates and supervises family visits in a safe, supportive, and culturally competent manner to promote healthy parent-child interactions. This role includes transporting children, preparing families for visits, debriefing afterward, and modeling appropriate behavior and engagement. The Visitation Aide ensures accurate documentation, clear communication with all stakeholders, and adherence to ethical and professional standards consistent with agency policies and the Social Work Code of Ethics. Supportive Visitation Services promote and maintain the parent-child bond and support positive family interactions by facilitating weekly visitation with children in an out of home placement and their parents, relatives, and siblings. The goals of the program are to foster effective communication, enhance parenting, achieve permanency and maintain reunification.

Requirements

Minimum 1 year experience with children and families, particularly families involved in the child welfare system or affected by trauma preferred.
Must have and maintain a valid driver's license with a clean driver’s abstract and reliable transportation.
Must have strong engaging, communication and collaboration skills
Must be able to exercise independent thinking and good judgment under all circumstances.
Must be reliable, exercise good judgment and utilize time effectively and efficiently.
Must have experience with crisis intervention and conflict resolution.

Nice To Haves

Degree in counseling related field preferred.
Preferred knowledge of trauma and effect on children and families

Responsibilities

Coordinate visits between parents and resource parents and transport children to and from visits
Help supervise visits in the least restrictive environment, supervising and coaching parent-child interactions.
Help facilitate meaningful visits through visit prep discussions and post-visit debriefing while transporting.
Provide timely communication to co-workers, parents, resource parents, children, and stakeholders regarding pertinent visitation information.
Empower parents to appropriately manage challenging behaviors in their children
Intervene as appropriate to ensure the safety of children during visits and model appropriate interactions between parents and children
Complete documentation consistent with program and agency requirements.
Follow program policies and procedures and encourage the same in others.