Case Aide-Tri County Foster Care-PD
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The House of The Good Shepherd
Watertown, NY, US
Summary
The Case Aide is responsible for supervising family visitations, providing transportation, and facilitating pre-visitation meetings to coach birth parents. They also document progress notes and maintain the cleanliness and functionality of visitation areas.
Job Description
Job Details: Job Location: Watertown Office - Watertown, NY, Position Type: Per Diem, Education Level: High School/GED, Salary Range: $19.47 - $19.47Hourly, Travel Percentage: Up to 25%, Job Shift: Any, This is not a full-time position. Hours would be 15-20 per week.
Supervise and provide transportation for visitation. Document progress notes regarding the interactions with the families in Connections. Facilitate pre-visitation meetings with birth parents, focusing on Coaching Family Visit strategies and techniques. Facilitate productive working relationships between birth and foster families. Implement the Sanctuary model of care into visitation while providing guidance to the families in their areas of needs to meet their permanency planning goal.
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 vitiation 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
Qualifications: Qualifications:
High School Diploma and 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
The House of the Good Shepherd was founded in 1872 in Utica, New York to help meet the needs of local children and families. Since then, The House has evolved with the changing child welfare system. We have grown into a comprehensive human service agency providing treatment to more than 600 children and their families a year.
Our goal is to help children and families, who are struggling with serious emotional, social and behavioral problems, discover their ability to succeed. Children and families who arrive at The House often have exhausted every available option for remaining together.
Our main location is on a 27-acre campus at 1550 Champlin Avenue in Utica, New York. The House currently employs 400 full- and part-time staff and has more than 200 volunteers and student interns.
The House of the Good Shepherd is classified as a non-sectarian, non-profit corporation, and is designated as a 501(c)3 charitable institution. We provide services without regard to ethnicity, religion, or financial status.
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
Non-profit Organization Management
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Utica, New York
The House of the Good Shepherd was founded in 1872 in Utica, New York to help meet the needs of local children and families. Since then, The House has evolved with the changing child welfare system. We have grown into a comprehensive human service agency providing treatment to more than 600 children and their families a year.
Our goal is to help children and families, who are struggling with serious emotional, social and behavioral problems, discover their ability to succeed. Children and families who arrive at The House often have exhausted every available option for remaining together.
Our main location is on a 27-acre campus at 1550 Champlin Avenue in Utica, New York. The House currently employs 400 full- and part-time staff and has more than 200 volunteers and student interns.
The House of the Good Shepherd is classified as a non-sectarian, non-profit corporation, and is designated as a 501(c)3 charitable institution. We provide services without regard to ethnicity, religion, or financial status.
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
Non-profit Organization Management
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Utica, New York
