Family Support Worker

Position Description:

The Family Support Worker (FSW) is responsible for initiating and maintaining regular and long-term (up to three or five years) contact and support with families. This activity will occur primarily within the family’s home; each visit should last for at least one hour. Virtual visits may take place as needed. The interventions should be family-centered, strength-based, and directed at establishing a trusting relationship; strengthening the parent-child relationship; promoting healthy childhood growth and development; and enhancing family well-being by reducing risk and building protective factors. The FSW partners with families and honors diverse family structures and parenting practices. Activities may also include but are not limited to: administering the Family Resilience and Opportunities for Growth Scale (FROG) Scale; administering screening tools such as the ASQ, ASQ-SE, Depression Screens etc.; identifying and referring families for other supportive services, including health care services. The FSW will also be responsible for assisting the family in establishing goals and supporting them throughout this process and is responsible for implementing activities outlined on the Family Service Plan to address areas of concern that were identified on the FROG scale.

Experience and Essential Job Functions:

• Provide culturally sensitive and linguistically competent home visitations to provide targeted case management support services on a weekly basis.
• Targeted Case Management goals comprise with providing education and guidance of child and family protective skills on parental resilience, reinforcing social connections, concrete support, parent-child relation development and the social competence of the child.
• Services may include providing training and education on parenting skills, improving home safety, health care, appropriate interaction for parent/child or parent/infant activities, appropriate parent responses to child behavior
• Utilize personal and professional life experience to provide peer support to parents and/or caregivers served by the program.
• Initiate and maintain regular contact with families, primarily in their homes, through virtual home visits and virtual work.
• Establish a trusting relationship with families served.
• Provide parenting and health education.
• Assist in strengthening parent –child relationship.
• Assist parents to improve their skills to optimize the home environment for the child’s well-being and safety.
• Completes reports, case notes and other documentation per PACS standard, maintain 75% monthly staff utilization rate.
• Occasional evening and weekend work may be required.
• Travel by personal car to provide in-home services to assigned clients in the community.
• Provide language interpretation and translation services for clients when required.
• Attend training sessions and team/program meetings as required.
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Child Development, Human Services, Social Work, Psychology, or another related field, or
• Associate of Arts degree from an accredited college or university with agency approved case management training course, and 2 years of case management experience in the health or human services field, or
• High school diploma or equivalent, with college coursework preferred.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience working with or providing services to children and their families.
• An ability to establish trusting relationships.
• Acceptance of individual differences.
• Experience and humility to work with culturally diverse families.
• Knowledge of infants and child development.
• Willing to engage in building reflective capacity (e.g., capacity for introspection, communicating awareness of self in relation to others, recognizing value of supervision, etc.)
• Possess strong listening skills.
• Have the ability and knowledge to identify family strengths and foster self-sufficiency and independence in families.
• Be emotionally mature and capable of exercising judgment, able to handle stressful situations.
• The staff must be able to demonstrate appropriate daily behavior, appropriate expression of emotions, as well as appropriate role modeling.
• Have knowledge of community resources.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Able to work flexible schedule which could include some evening/weekend hours.
• Fully Bilingual in English and Spanish
• Must have reliable transportation with automobile liability insurance coverage.

Job Perks:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with low premium contributions.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Professional development support including opportunities for growth.
• Paid holidays and vacation time.
• Mileage reimbursement.
• Partial reimbursement for cell phone and internet expenses.
• Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF): PACS is a qualifying employer under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program. Employees with eligible federal student loans may be eligible for loan forgiveness after meeting all program requirements. Eligibility for PSLF is determined by the U.S. Department of Education.

Pay: $24.75 - $28.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Mileage reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience:

• case management : 2 years (Required)

Language:

• Spanish (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Van Nuys, CA 91405 (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $25 - $28