Family Parent Partner
Company: Victor Community Support Services Inc
Location: Pomona
Posted on: October 31, 2024
Job Description:
VTC Pomona 801 Corporate Cntr Drive Ste 202 Pomona, CA 91768,
USA Why Victor?
- Learning Organization: Victor provides the best training for
new grads and clinicians looking to begin their career!
- Leadership Development: Victor provides employees leadership
training and promotes from within! Many of our executive leadership
team have been promoted from entry-level positions!
- Reimbursements: Victor provides reimbursements for license
registration fees, CEUs, travel, internet/cell phone usage and
more!
- Loan Forgiveness: Victor employees can apply for Public Service
Loan Forgiveness!
- Low cost Medical, Dental and Vision
- Life Insurance plan for employee and family
- 8 Paid Holidays, PTO and Sick pay
- Retirement Savings Plan (403B)
- 100% Employer Funded Retirement Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mileage Reimbursement
- Verizon Wireless Discount
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Flexible Community-Based SchedulesJOB SUMMARYThe Family Parent
Partner is responsible for establishing and implementing the
support services for children and families. They serve as a liaison
for the family's involvement and offer support in whatever way is
most helpful to each individual family.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Serves as the consumer representative to program activities,
ensuring advocacy and support services to all participating
families.
- Able to engage and provide skill building to youth and families
as assigned.
- Provides introduction and engagement support for families
entering services.
- Coordinates with the management team in the development and
implementation of program systems and standards that promote
consumer-driven family-centered services.
- Informs families of basic mental health and social service
information and referral sources; assists with the development of
additional community resources as necessary and appropriate.
- Assists with the development of support groups for consumers
and coordinates scheduling of groups and transportation
assistance.
- Participates in consumer advocate training: teaching basic
concepts of rights, complaints and grievance procedures, support
relationships, crisis management, vocational involvement and
related areas.
- Recruits for consumer involvement in committees and work
groups.
- Provides appropriate and professional advocacy and education to
providers on behalf of consumer's needs.
- Provides linkage of families with appropriate services,
advocating for them when necessary, and serving as a role model and
advocate for children/families involved in the wraparound
process.
- Assists with the ongoing development and implementation of
program evaluation.
- Documents services in accordance with program specific
requirements.
- Meets Agency service percentage standard reflecting expected
time spent with clients, if applicable.
- Completes other duties as assigned.MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION
AND EXPERIENCE
- Must possess a high school diploma/GED.
- Must be a former consumer, caregiver or relative of a special
needs child who has received services from a child-serving agency.
(All applicants must submit a Cover Letter)POSITION/PROGRAM
REQUIREMENTS
- Must possess a valid California driver's license, personal
automobile insurance and driving record that meets the standards
outlined in the Agency's Personnel Policy: Motor Vehicle Operating
Standards.
- Must be physically and mentally fit in accordance with the
Agency's Personnel Policy: Physical Fitness Standards and
Examinations. Must be willing to complete a Tuberculosis (TB) test,
and drug screening test.
- Must be willing to complete a personal background investigation
conducted by the State of California.
- Must obtain First Aid Certification. Must obtain a CPR
Certification (only when required by local county or program).
- Must be flexible to work a varying schedule according to
operational needs.
- Must be willing to work within a culturally integrated
workplace and be willing to respect human differences based upon
protected classes as defined by state, federal and local laws, or
any other condition that distinguishes people from one
another.PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Have an adequate range of body motion and mobility to work in a
residential, office or outdoor environment including standing and
walking (even and uneven surfaces), alternating between standing
and sitting for extended periods of time, bending, kneeling,
twisting, reaching balancing and occasional carrying and lifting up
to 25 pounds occasionally, and up to 10 pounds frequently.
- Physically able to walk up and down stairs routinely.
- Physically able to perform CPR and First Aid as trained.
- Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time in a vehicle
for traveling to recreational activities, home visits, DCFS and
court locations which may be up to 100 miles driving distance.
- Requires the ability to utilize computer and telephone systems,
which includes the coordination of eye and hand and fine
manipulation by the hands and fingers for typing, writing and
working with files.
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