About this role
Do you have a desire to help others and serve your community? Portage County Health & Human Services has a part-time Child and Family Aide opening! This position is 20 - 40 hrs / week and is still eligible for benefits!
Pay range starts at $19.95 / hr
What are the primary job duties?
Provides supervised and monitored visitation for families and assists in mentoring and coordination of schedules with other Child and Family Aides.
- Arrange and coordinate supervised and/or monitored visits for parents and children.
- Be within sound or sight for supervised visits
- Recognize unsafe parenting practices and intervene when safety concerns arise
- Model and redirect parent to safe parenting practices.
- Contact parents, foster parents, in advance regarding visitation.
- Maintain regular communication with the assigned Social Worker.
- Report any safety concerns immediately to the Social Worker.
- Complete documentation for all visitations.
- Provide transportation as needed.
- Include parent education/coaching as requested by the Social Worker.
- Clean visitation room after visits as needed. This may include vacuuming, disinfecting, etc.
Conducts safety checks to clients’ homes including drug/alcohol monitoring.
- Collects UAs and gives breathalyzer tests as requested.
- Conduct checks at homes and observe for safety concerns as requested.
- Report safety concerns immediately as requested and contact on-call for emergencies.
- Document all safety checks.
Provides Home and Financial Management (HFM) to child welfare clients.
- Meet regularly with the Ongoing Worker to determine appropriate goals to meet.
- Establish budget within limits of resources and obligation as requested.
- Teach clients mechanics of budgeting including decision-making about priorities.
- Assist clients to seek out employment, or other programs to assist with income.
- Assist clients to seek out housing and develop working knowledge of housing options.
- Assist clients to enhance skills in cleaning, parenting, and basic home management.
- Assist clients to bring their home to a safe and clean condition.
- Document HFM meetings.
- Assist to hold family meetings.
- Attend family team meetings and internal staffing meetings.
What are the minimum qualifications?
- High school diploma or equivalency required
- One year experience with child welfare programs or work with children and families strongly preferred
- Knowledge of mental health and parenting skills strongly preferred
- Experience dealing with challenging clients and/or children under emotional duress strongly preferred
- Must be a licensed driver and have access to an insured vehicle.
Portage County offers a GREAT benefit package, which includes the following;
- Vacation - available on day one!
- Health insurance- your choice of two health plans- (Health Savings Account associated with a High Deductible Health Plan with a County contribution or a PPO Co-pay plan)
- Wellness incentive plan offered with health insurance enrollment! Earn up to $600 per year!
- Flexible spending account
- Dental insurance
- Paid holidays
- Paid sick leave
- EAP (Employee Assistance Plan) - paid by the County
- 457(b) Deferred Compensation Plan
- Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program
Portage County is an Equal Opportunity Employer