What are the responsibilities and job description for the Visitation Coach position at Catawba County Government?
Catawba County Social Services is committed to improving lives by serving children and families with multiple and complex needs.
We are seeking individuals who share our common core values:
Doing what’s right:
- Provide coaching and supervision during parent-supervised visitation with their children experiencing foster care. Work with a team of social workers and share observations and insights learned during interactions.
Doing what matters most:
- Using a respectful and non-judgmental approach, provide constructive feedback to parents to improve their interactions with their children as they work toward reunifying with them.
Doing it together:
- Working cohesively with birth and resource families, children, community, and in-agency partners to support and strengthen families.
Doing it well:
- Striving for excellence in meeting all mandated standards in a fast-paced and mandated but rewarding environment that ultimately seeks to assure child safety and develop and reinforce protective family units.
This position requires availability to work evenings and weekends on a rotating schedule to meet the needs of children and families. There is potential for advancement, so we seek people who want to learn and grow with the agency.
- Provide visitation coaching for parent/child visitations, assisting parents and foster parents to learn practical behavior approaches for children through supervision, coaching, modeling, and redirection
- Provide transportation for children and parents to remove barriers and assist in accessing necessary services (court-ordered visitation, school, etc.).
- Provide case management activities including but not limited to completion of social histories, calling/interviewing of collateral contacts, evaluation of client situation and assessment of safety and wellbeing of the child, participation in Child and Family Team Meetings, informing parents and foster parents of services and coordinating services when needed
- Complete appropriate and timely documentation in permanency planning record, including recording all interactions with the child and writing of visitation summaries
- Assist agency with after-hours crisis management (placement moves, etc.)
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited school of social work or in a human services field; or
- Bachelor’s degree in a non-human services field and 1 year of social work experience
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- A valid driver’s license with a safe driving record
- Ability to engage with parents and children with a strength-based approach
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Excellent interpersonal and intervention skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with other professionals
- Solid understanding of trauma and how it impacts children and families engaged in the child welfare system
- This is considered light to medium work; lifting up to 40 pounds
PREFERENCES:
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Work is strongly preferred.
Salary : $41,820