Senior Family Partner Coastal Community Services Agency
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Job Location:
Braintree, MA - USA
Hourly Salary:
USD 24 - 26
Posted on:
13 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Senior Family Partner provides leadership mentorship and direct family support services to caregivers of youth involved in behavioral health child welfare juvenile justice or other systems of care. This role brings lived experience advocacy and systems knowledge to empower families promote engagement and strengthen outcomes.
What You Will Be Doing to Make a Difference in the Lives of Families...
Assist parent/caregiver with meeting the needs of the youth and meet one or more of the following purposes: Educating Supporting Coaching Modeling and Guiding
Educating Teaching parent/caregiver how to navigate the child serving systems and processes
Fostering empowerment including linkages to parent/peer support groups and self help groups
Teaching parent/caregivers how to identify formal and community based resources (e.g. afterschool programs food assistance housing resources etc.)
Assist in developing and identifying with the family their natural supports
Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with the Community Resources state agencies residential programs group homes foster care providers service providers and community organizations at the area regional and state levels
Develop community partnerships with formal and informal community resources thus enabling family access to expanded ongoing community based services for the children and families
Provide weekly individual supervision to Family Support and Training Partners on staff; all supervision must be documented in files accessible for review by the MCE during the site review process or upon request
Supervision notes must contain at a minimum information regarding frequency of supervision format of supervision supervisors credentials and general content of supervision sessions
Exceptional Health and Wellness Benefits!
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield Health and Dental Insurance
- Eye-Med Vision Benefits
- Employer Paid Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Tax Deferred Retirement Plan 403(b) (employer match after the first year of employment)
- Medical Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Benefits First year: 35 Days Paid Time Off -Increased vacation with tenure
- Pet Insurance
- Employee discounts
- Mileage Reimbursement
- Stipends for on-call
- Qualified employer for student loan forgiveness
- Tuition Assistance
- Extensive Training Programs including Certification(s) in Evidence Based Practices
- Supervision for licensure requirements
Qualifications
Bachelors degree in a Human Service field and 1 year of experience working with the target population
OR
Associates degree in the Human Service field and 1 year experience working with children/adolescent/or transitional age youth OR
High school diploma or High School Equivalency Test and a minimum of 2 years experience working with children/adolescents/or transitional age youth
Experience as a parent/legal guardian/caregiver of a youth with special needs and preferably a youth with mental health needs
Requires 2 years supervisory experience
Experience in navigating any of the child and family serving systems and teaching family members who are involved with the child and family serving systems
Experience in working collaboratively with state agencies consumer advocacy groups and/or behavioral health outpatient facilities
Bay State Community Services is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment free from bias discrimination or harassment of any kind and mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all qualified applicants and teammates without regard to race ethnicity religion sex pregnancy national origin age physical and mental disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity gender expression genetic information military and veteran status and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Business Development
- Presentation Skills
- Motivational Interviewing
- Employee Relations
- Growing Experience
- Crisis Intervention
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- HR Sourcing
- Account Management
- Enterprise Sales
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About Company
We support individuals, families, and the community with our continuum of care with integrated, culturally competent behavioral health, substance use recovery, and rehabilitative justice services.
