Parent Partner

Description

Position Summary:

The Parent Partner ensures the client family voice is heard during the Child & Family Team (CFT) 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.

Salary Range: $23.00 - $29.90 per hour.

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, Integrated 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, 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.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

High School diploma or GED 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.