Therapeutic Parenting Time Visitation Facilitator

Summary of Therapeutic Parenting Time Visitation Facilitator

Responsible for supporting parent-child visitation for families who require therapeutic intervention; completing biopsychological assessments, assessment tools, and visitation plans; providing services to visiting adults or children separately and together, documenting services and completing reports; facilitating parent debriefings before and after visits and visitation planning meetings; communicating with children, parents, relatives, resource parents, HCJFS, and/or other stakeholders by phone and in person; attending various meetings and trainings; and assessing families’ service needs and linking them to appropriate community providers.

Status:

Full Time

Hours:

Varies

Location:

Cincinnati, Ohio

Supervisor:

Director of Parenting Time Visitation Services

Primary Duties:

Engaging 

  • Initiates and maintains ongoing communication with families in a culturally sensitive manner utilizing a family’s preferred language taking into consideration a family’s faith and culture. 
  • Schedules and conducts visits at the Family Nurturing Center and other locations as clinically appropriate while ensuring the safety of the children. 
  • Ensures the environment for parent-child contact is safe, non-traumatizing, and promotes healthy attachment connection. 
  • Uses strengths-based, solutions-focused, family centered, trauma informed strategies to elicit family input. 
  • Initiates and maintains ongoing communication with HCJFS, other providers, and supports. 

 Assessing 

  • Uses a process to gather information which includes reviewing collateral information and inquiring about family’s natural supports. 
  • Completes required assessment tools including but not limited to bio-psychological assessments, program identified outcome metrics, and documents contacts with families in agency’s progress notes and participant record. 
  • Creates a visitation plan with active familial involvement and updates the plan at regular intervals. 

 Active Listening 

  • Creates an environment that empowers family members, including parents, children, and visiting adults to communicate their goals and needs. 
  • Utilizes various interviewing and/or communication techniques in a culturally competent manner. 
  • Recognizes non-verbal communication and maintains good eye contact and posture. 

Teaming 

  • Advocates for parents/families as necessary and supports them in advocating for themselves. 
  • Links the family to community resources and formal and informal supports and coordinates with HCJFS. 
  • Collaborates with and shares relevant information with HCJFS staff, other providers, and supports. 
  • Facilitates visit planning meetings and participates in other relevant meetings. 

 Therapeutic Intervening 

  • Uses clinical interventions as identified by Family Nurturing Center and trauma informed approaches to promote repair of relational rupture with visiting adults and children through education, modeling, reinforcement, and empowerment. 

 Coaching 

  • Enhances parental skills by goal setting, modeling, mentoring, reinforcement and feedback and reflection through a trauma-informed perspective. 
  • Prepares for each visit with visiting adults, reviewing goals and expectations and encouraging them to be the lead in visit planning. 
  • Debriefs with visiting adults after each visit to allow for processing and self-reflection and discussion of strengths and challenges.

Experience/Skills:

Job Requirements:  

Master’s Degree and licensure. Knowledge of, and at least 1 year of experience working with children and families is expected. Knowledge of child development, trauma informed care and knowledge of child welfare dynamics. Experience working with diverse populations. 

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

  • Organizational skills with the ability to manage numerous visiting families and systems of care simultaneously to promote best practices. 
  • Outstanding human relations skills and the ability to function autonomously and in a team environment. 
  • Effective oral and written communication skills. 
  • Effectively solve problems and communicate information, including the identification and communication of problems and/or issues with appropriate team and management staff. 
  • Knowledge of resources and/or services in the community for the target population. 
  • Knowledge of trauma and its effects on children and families. 
  • Knowledge of infant, child and adolescent stages of growth and development. 
  • Knowledge of and ability to use therapeutic approaches when working with children and families. 
  • Model, coach, support, and mentor parents on use of nurturing and safe parenting 
  • Deliver and score assessment tools. 
  • Excellent computer skills with proficiency and working knowledge of database and reporting tools such as Microsoft Word and Excel.  

All positions at Family Nurturing Center require a shared vision and philosophy that promotes and enhances the agency mission, the ability to handle sensitive information and maintain high level of confidentiality, and demonstrated cultural competence and the ability to work effectively with diverse groups of people.   

 Relationships:  

The Therapeutic Parenting Time Visitation Facilitator must maintain positive working relationships with children and families served, Hamilton County Jobs and Family Services, other community partners such as CASA and GALs, and all agency staff and volunteers. 

Confidential Information: 

Participant records and other agency and HCJFS information. 

 Supervisory Responsibilities: 

None.  May be assigned a Master’s or Bachelor’s level intern as appropriate.  

To Apply:

To apply for this position. Please send a cover letter and resume to:

Family Nurturing Center
5 Spiral Drive, Suite 100
Florence, KY 41042

or

[email protected]
Phone: 859-525-3200
Fax: 859-525-3209

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