Join our team and grow with us! Are you looking for a career with meaning? Do you want to be part of a team who strives to improve the quality of a person’s life?

Avita Community Partners gives you the opportunity to live out your passion, in an organization known for high quality care. We value, reward & recognize hard working committed staff and want you to be surrounded by a healthy team and strong leadership.

We recognize our staff when they go above and beyond and provide support when needed. Avita offers a great benefit package including options for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and many more! We understand that it’s difficult to save for retirement, so we contribute the equivalent of 3.5% of your salary into a 401k plan that will grow for you.

• 20 days Paid Time Off (PTO) per year with a full “cash out” for unused PTO
• 9 Paid Holidays, 1 Floating Holiday, plus Your Birthday as a Holiday just for you!

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides therapeutic supervision of infants, toddlers, and children with emotional and/ or behavioral challenges, residing in a 24/7 residential gender-specific, trauma-responsive substance abuse treatment facility with their parents.
• Facilitates parenting education groups with parents, including but not limited to education on positive reinforcement, bonding, developmental stages, and drug and alcohol prevention.
• Provides therapeutic supervision of infants, toddlers, and children with emotional and/ or behavioral challenges, residing in a 24/7 residential gender-specific, trauma-responsive substance abuse treatment facility with their parents.
• Act as a liaison to other agencies including the Department of Family and Child Services to facilitate parent/child reunification and adherence to DFCS case plans.
• Models strong interactive skills and provides nurturing guidance to parents to enhance their parenting skills, with respect to appropriate therapeutic boundaries.
• Observes and evaluates children's progress in terms of behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Prepares and maintains records of children’s progress and services delivered, reporting changes in condition to parents and manager/supervisor.
• Participates in weekly treatment team meetings.
• Ensures and provides high quality, compassionate, and ethical delivery of services to improve program and organizational performance.
• Intervenes and de-escalates acute crisis situations as needed.
• Assists in training co-staff in areas relating to Therapeutic Child Care.
• Maintains confidentiality for all indirect/direct service in accordance with agency policies and HIPPA policies.
• Attends and positively represents Avita’s WTRS at TCC quarterly meetings.
• Other responsibilities and tasks as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Completion of a Bachelor's Degree in in Early Childhood Education, Child Development or a related field of Human Services Study and six months of qualifying child care experience, preferably with children of substance abusing mothers.

Avita Community Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in its service practices or employment practices with regard to race color, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, age, or national origin. This is a full-time position and is eligible for company benefits.