Overview

Are you tired of working 9-5? Do you need flexibility? 

PEER COUNSELOR (PARENT PARTNER) JOIN OUR PASSIONATE TEAM WORKING WITH SPANISH-SPEAKING FAMILIES

SOUTH SEATTLE AREA (BURIEN, WA)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE!

This position is based mainly in our offices at the Latino Civic Alliance building in Burien, WA. Catholic Community Services, Family Behavioral Health is looking for a Peer Counselor (Parent Partner) to join our team who work with Spanish-speaking families in the South King County community. You would be an integral part of this team of innovators who explore and develop new approaches and implement novel strategies for engaging families.

WHO WE ARE: 

We are a values-driven organization, providing family-oriented behavioral health care for children, youth and families, primarily in their own home and community. Our enthusiastic clinical teams provide whatever is needed to help children and youth remain safely in their own home with their family, restoring hope, providing intense behavioral health services and supports, and helping to strengthen the family unity. The office locations are in South King County (Tukwila and Burien), Washington offering comprehensive, intensive, Wrap-around behavioral health services to the Latino/Latinx community. Family Behavioral Health employs almost 600 energetic and compassionate employees from our offices across Washington and in Portland, OR.

WHAT WE VALUE: Compassion Diversity Strength-Based-Approach Social-Justice & Our Staff!

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Base Pay Rate: $22.08

Additional Pay for:

• Additional pay of $100.00 per pay period (2 times per month) for: bi-lingual fluency skills in Spanish & English
• Availability pay for coverage after hours: $75.00 per pay period (2 times per month)
• Ability to earn additional pay: based on performance

Training and Supervision:

• • Extensive training (i.e. WISe, De-Escalation, etc.)
  • Daily supervision and support, as needed

BENEFITS:

• 12 paid holidays; plus 1 personal holiday each year!
• 15 days’ vacation per year
• 12 sick-days per year
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Plans: 403-B Employee Savings Plan and an Employer Contribution Pension 

We strive to help children and families live together safely and securely with hope and promise. We serve as a catalyst for change when appropriate, challenging long-standing service traditions in community behavioral health. We behave with Humility, Passion for our Mission, and Compassion and Respectful Interactions. We value learning and offer alternatives and we stand strong to help child-serving systems understand our alternative paradigm while strengthening partnerships. We do not compromise our values.

Peer Counselors (Parent Partners) are individuals with personal history as a parent of a youth/child who has been a recipient of behavioral health, child welfare, complex medical coordination or juvenile justice services who use that personal experience in building support with families. Successful applicants must have first person experience as a parent of a youth who received system services and prepared to disclose their personal experiences with youth, parents and others. 

Responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY: 

Peer Counselors (Parent Partners)collaborate, provide support and help facilitate services for youth and their families receiving Family Behavioral Health Services. Working as a member of a team, the Peer Counselor (Parent Partner) helps a parent voice their own perspective and assure that other team members are able to understand their perspective and use that perspective in treatment planning. This position helps youth, parents and families achieve confidence in their abilities to team on a recovery journey and maintain hope for their success after formal behavioral health services have been completed.

• Provide non-judgmental, unconditional positively support families and youth.
• Customize helping approaches to fit families and youth uniqueness, personality, culture and interest.
• Dialogue with referred parents and relate personal experience as a parent that will further assist in building trust with the family.
• Reach agreement with parents about activities that will contribute to healing and support and assist in communicating that to others.
• Review and analyze the team plan and make suggestions for improvements/modifications that improve parent participation.
• Assist the parent in analyzing team progress toward vision and goals and encourage their feedback to the team.

Emphasis is on achieving incredible outcomes with children, youth and families by actively partnering with them along with their natural and community services and supports to achieve long term safety and stability in our neighborhoods and communities. 

This position will be based out of the FBH Burien office, which may include some time working from home, with scheduling flexibility to provide services to youth and families in the community and in their homes, as needed.

A full job description with qualifications may be shared with candidates identified for an interview. 

Qualifications

WHAT WE ARE SEEKING IN A CANDIDATE:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Age 21 or older.
• Personal (lived) experience as a parent of a child who has received community / mental health services within the past ten years, within Latino communities. 
• Ability to drive to family homes within the community, have reliable transportation, valid driver’s license, and current automobile insurance with an acceptable driving record per CCS policy.
• Ability to visually assess safety within family homes. 
• Applicant must successfully pass required background clearances prior to an offer of employment.
• Must have fluent skills in Spanish and English
• Preference for a flexible schedule rather than a traditional, fixed 8-5 Monday through Friday facility-based position
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
• Demonstrates the necessary attitudes, knowledge and skills to deliver culturally competent services and work effectively in multi-cultural situations including within the Latino community and with Latino Civic Alliance.
• Support and uphold the mission, beliefs and values of Catholic Community Services and Catholic Housing Services.
• Must provide proof of being fully vaccinated from COVID-19

ABOUT TUKWILA:

Tukwila’s earliest residents were members of the Duwamish Tribe with homes along the Black and Duwamish Rivers. They named the area Tukwila for the lush forests of hazelnut tress which grew throughout the area. Enjoy all the area has to offer:

• Located just south of Seattle, Washington, the City of Tukwila is dynamic and unique. It is recognized as one of the most diverse communities in the country, with more than 80 languages spoken in its schools. While the City has fewer than 20,000 residents, the daytime population includes more than 47,000 who work in Tukwila plus over 150,000 who visit the city on a daily basis. 
• Tukwila, nestled in the hills surrounding major commerce corridors are quiet residential neighbors. Residents of the City enjoy small-town warmth, involvement and caring, while having the benefits of high-quality services and goods associated with larger cities.
• Perhaps, you are a runner, walker, or biker – Tukwila offers many trails, along rivers and parks, while enjoying a spectacular view of Mt. Rainier. Shop ‘til you drop at the largest retail mall in the Pacific Northwest.

If interested in this opportunity, upload your resume at: https://fbh-ccsww.icims.com/jobs/intro . For additional questions, contact Karla Lacktorin, Regional Clinical Recruiter, at karlal@ccsww.org .

Catholic Community Services and Catholic Housing Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please let us know if you need special accommodations to apply or interview for this position.