Bilingual (Spanish / Haitian Creo / Portuguese) Visitation Aide
Bilingual (Spanish / Haitian Creo / Portuguese) Visitation Aide
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23-07-2025
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USD 55000 - 55000
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23-07-2025
Job Description
Position Title: Visitation Aide
Reports to: Regional Coordinator
I: CORE VALUES
II: PROFESSIONALISM:
III: SUPERVISION:
IV: TRANSPORTATION:
3. Responsible for vehicle maintenance and documentation of such maintenance including regular service appointments and regular scheduled cleaning. Inform manager or identified liaison of any problems with the vehicle in a timely manner.
4. Responsible for maintaining Mileage logs and for keeping records of any receipts.
5. Responsible for documenting all transportation within EHR.
V: ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
SPECIFICATIONS:
Education & Experience: Candidates must possess a high school diploma or equivalent. Minimum one year experience working with children and families particularly families involved with the child welfare system and/or affected by trauma OR Thirty (30) semester hour credits from an accredited college which must include twelve (12) semester hour credits in the behavioral sciences may be substituted for the experience listed above. Associates degree preferred.
Valid New Jersey drivers license safe driving record and vehicle availability are required.
Knowledge: Knowledge of the child welfare system community resources social services and mental health systems. Knowledge of trauma and its effect on children and families. Understands professional ethics and issues of confidentiality. Knowledge and comfortability with computer applications such as Outlook Word and Excel. Knowledge of countys local and highway roads.
Skills and Abilities: Bilingual: English and Spanish or English and Haitian Creole. Effective oral and written communication skills. Ability to utilize an electronic health record and document daily notes. Safely operate a motor vehicle abiding by all applicable traffic laws. Ensure the safety of all passengers through appropriate safety measures including use of seat belts car and booster seats and/or child safety locks. Comfortability working with families from diverse backgrounds.
Professional Characteristics: Open warm empathic attentive listener self-aware ethical creative organized flexible open to constructive feedback patient responsible able to work independently mature self-motivated dedicated enthusiastic willing to take on additional tasks and responsibilities interested in seeking additional training and skills. Experience/willingness to work with culturally diverse populations.
Work Environment/Physical Demands: The individual must possess the ability to perform work that requires frequent standing bending reaching squatting kneeling moving and lifting of up to or in excess of 50 pounds. A flexible working schedule with 5 days per week with evening availability and potential weekend availability.
Salary: $55000
Vacation & Benefits:
Reports to: Regional Coordinator
Broad Function: Responsible transportation and visitation support of Supervised Visitation Services
I: CORE VALUES
- Demonstrates awareness of biases internalized racial superiority and oppression. Leads with a racial equity lens and actively uses the racial equity tool in meaningful ways
- Contributes to valuable and positive cultural humility transformation in individuals organizations and social systems to actively progress across the antiracist multicultural institution continuum.
- Demonstrates cultural humility through an awareness of and sensitivity towards Agencys clients and coworkers cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
- Committed to the value of a nurturing family as the ideal environment for a child and believes in the capacity of people to grow and change.
- Works from a strength-based perspective.
- Recognizes that consumers come first and responds to consumers appropriately.
- Knows and adheres to all FC Policies and Procedures.
- Participates in a QI subcommittee and keeps abreast of and adheres to QI policies and procedures.
II: PROFESSIONALISM:
- Values and participates in the Team as a proactive member.
- Respects others professional opinions and tolerates a range of feelings.
- Able to give and receive constructive criticism.
- Willing to take on extra work as needed (i.e. when there is a vacancy).
III: SUPERVISION:
- Attends supervision consistently and comes prepared.
- Able to receive feedback and learn from it.
- Has insight about self (i.e. strengths and weaknesses) and utilizes that knowledge towards growth and change.
IV: TRANSPORTATION:
- Maintain a professional and safe environment in vehicles. Ensure the safety of children and adults by providing appropriate safety measures such as seat belts car seats and child safety locks.
- Ensures the environment for parent-child contact is safe non-traumatizing and promotes healthy attachment.
- Initiates and maintains ongoing communication with families that is culturally sensitive utilizing familys preferred language considering a familys faith and culture.
- Initiates and maintains ongoing communication with DCP&P other providers and supports.
- Creates an environment that empowers family members including parents children and caregivers 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.
- Advocates for parents/families as necessary and supports them in advocating for themselves.
- Operates from a trauma-informed perspective.
3. Responsible for vehicle maintenance and documentation of such maintenance including regular service appointments and regular scheduled cleaning. Inform manager or identified liaison of any problems with the vehicle in a timely manner.
4. Responsible for maintaining Mileage logs and for keeping records of any receipts.
5. Responsible for documenting all transportation within EHR.
V: ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Greet program participants and cover front desk responsibilities as needed.
- Assist with maintenance of the visitation site and ensuring a clean safe location.
- Collaborate with Regional Coordinator and notify them of any site-needs.
- Report any on-site issues to management as needed.
- Provide supervised visitation services as needed by the program.
- Responsible for childcare as needed when not transporting children and adults to and from Program.
- Prepare and/or collaborate with team regarding daily transportation schedule for pick-up and drop-off of clients for program services. As indicated confirm transportation schedule with necessary adults at designated pick-up/drop-off. Communicate and coordinate daily schedule including any changes to all program staff.
- Assist with administrative needs such as transporting program supplies inter-office mail etc.
- Recognize client/family signs indicating potential emergency or safety risk and report to supervisors.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Education & Experience: Candidates must possess a high school diploma or equivalent. Minimum one year experience working with children and families particularly families involved with the child welfare system and/or affected by trauma OR Thirty (30) semester hour credits from an accredited college which must include twelve (12) semester hour credits in the behavioral sciences may be substituted for the experience listed above. Associates degree preferred.
Valid New Jersey drivers license safe driving record and vehicle availability are required.
Knowledge: Knowledge of the child welfare system community resources social services and mental health systems. Knowledge of trauma and its effect on children and families. Understands professional ethics and issues of confidentiality. Knowledge and comfortability with computer applications such as Outlook Word and Excel. Knowledge of countys local and highway roads.
Skills and Abilities: Bilingual: English and Spanish or English and Haitian Creole. Effective oral and written communication skills. Ability to utilize an electronic health record and document daily notes. Safely operate a motor vehicle abiding by all applicable traffic laws. Ensure the safety of all passengers through appropriate safety measures including use of seat belts car and booster seats and/or child safety locks. Comfortability working with families from diverse backgrounds.
Professional Characteristics: Open warm empathic attentive listener self-aware ethical creative organized flexible open to constructive feedback patient responsible able to work independently mature self-motivated dedicated enthusiastic willing to take on additional tasks and responsibilities interested in seeking additional training and skills. Experience/willingness to work with culturally diverse populations.
Work Environment/Physical Demands: The individual must possess the ability to perform work that requires frequent standing bending reaching squatting kneeling moving and lifting of up to or in excess of 50 pounds. A flexible working schedule with 5 days per week with evening availability and potential weekend availability.
Salary: $55000
Vacation & Benefits:
- Vacation: As a full-time employee working generally 35 hours per week you will be eligible to participate in the Family Connections group benefit plans. Benefits include medical dental life insurance long term disability retirement plans and additional supplementary benefits. Yes you can elect to not enroll into these benefits. You will also be eligible to accrue vacation personal and sick days in addition to 12 paid holidays and summer wellness Fridays.
- Benefits also include professional development assistance referral program internal/external trainings Capella University partnership 403b retirement plan with employer matching (3% max) (you can enroll in your 403b without a waiting period) employer-paid life insurance employer paid Long-term Disability (LTD) insurance employer paid Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance etc.
Family Connections is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to excellence. Employment offers are made on the basis of qualifications and without regard to race sex religion national or ethnic origin disability age veteran status or sexual orientation or other protected classes under the State and Federal law.
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
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