Parent Partner

Parent Partner

Position Summary

The Parent Partner ensures the client family voice is heard during the Child & Family Team meeting; ensures the needs of family are addressed in the development of Family Plans and service delivery; and helps families navigate various systems of care.

Essential Duties

• Provides services to children, youth and families in their home, school, or other field location
• Acquires, maintains, and demonstrates knowledge of Continuum of Care, Core Practice Model, and trauma informed care in providing therapy to individuals and families.
• Individualizes and ensures care to client families, primarily in their home, but also in other community-based and office settings.
• Ties the goals and strategies of the Family plan to observable or measurable indicators of success, monitors progress in terms of these indicators, and revises the plan accordingly
• Responds to crisis situations of families and coordinates with other team members to timely and effectively respond to such situations.
• Attends and actively participates in a multi-disciplinary team including CFT meetings, ISC meetings, internal team meetings, and other meetings as needed and assigned.
• Despite challenges, persists in working toward the goals included in the Family Plan until the team reaches agreement that a formal Mental Health process is no longer required.
• Prepares and submits timely, progress notes, incident reports, and other documentation in appropriate formats and within time frames set by contractual and agency requirements

Minimum Qualifications

High School diploma AND successful experience as an enrollee parent. Individual must be able to work primarily in the field, which requires a valid, unrestricted California driver’s license, proof of insurance and consistent availability of a working vehicle.

Additional Requirements:

• To meet the needs of monolingual clients, bilingual proficiency in a threshold language is preferred and compensated with a bi-lingual stipend.
• Basic math skills to assist families with budgeting.
• Moderate English language proficiency and effective written and verbal skills to communicate with parents/caregivers, to effectively participate in meetings, document activities, and develop Family Plans.
• Must be able to identify resources and collaborate with agencies that can be of assistance to low income, multi-problem families struggling with mental health problems.
• Moderate computer skills to effectively document and to learn and use Exym or other electronic record systems.
• High degree of emotional skills to read social/emotional cues, body language, and surroundings, to manage environment, and to be sensitive to clients and community
• High level of reasoning ability to identify and respond to variables and to quickly solve practical problems

Salary Range: $47,840 to $52,732
The posted pay scale for this position serves as a general disclosure. Actual pay offered within the range will be dependent on individual factors such as skills, qualifications, and relevant experience.