About the Role
Assist families and individuals toward economic and social self-sufficiency through goal development, individualized support, and links to community resources.
Responsibilities
- Provide all services in alignment with the Head Start Parent Family and Community Engagement Framework.
- Operate from a strength-based model implementing the Family Development philosophy.
- Develop relationships with parents and structure services to encourage trust and respectful, ongoing two-way communication.
- Provide service orientations for assigned families.
- Provide parents with information about the importance of their child’s regular attendance and partner with them to promote consistent attendance.
- Ensure each assigned family has an up to date Family Development Plan.
- Help families achieve identified individualized family engagement outcomes.
- Facilitate coordination and integration of services across all internal and external service providers.
- Maintain awareness of community resources and make appropriate referrals with follow-up.
- Maintain contact (minimum of monthly) with each customer using methods based on customer comfort and need urgency.
- Regularly assess, monitor, and report customer progress toward individual goal and outcome achievement.
- Conduct contract specific required screenings and assessments.
- Administer Family Scales/Matrix assessments and reassessments.
- Deliver Life Skills Training within the home environment and group settings.
- Work with families to promote parent involvement in their children’s education to support academic success.
- Promote asset-based thinking, including Financial Social Work model through development and implementation of a personal spending plan.
- Meet OCFS training requirements and maintain training log.
- Provide care and supervision of children on an as-needed basis.
- Participate in service enrollment and recruitment strategies.
- Promote agency mission.
- Maintain confidentiality and comply with the code of ethics.
- Maintain consistent professional customer service.
- Incorporate integrated service delivery model while promoting self-sufficiency in job performance.
- Other duties as designated by supervisor.
Requirements
- Security Clearance Lv. 6 V, A, C, R
- Adheres to all policies and procedures.
- Gathers appropriate documentation and tracks outcomes.
- Participates in organizational committee structures as appropriate.
- Participates in organizational and divisional management systems.
- Ability to lift up to and including 10-25 pounds of physical effort.
- Flexible in work schedule.
- Obtain Financial Social Work (FSW) training within 6 months of employment.
- Must be able to provide consistent even-tempered customer service at all times.
- Completes all required NYS background clearances.
- Pre-employment physical exams and TB Testing.
- Valid Driver’s license.
- Reliable transportation.
- Authorized Driver of a COI Vehicle.
- Ability to travel throughout the county.
- Pre-employment drug and alcohol testing required; subject to random drug and alcohol testing for cause.
- Works compassionately with a diverse population.
- Experience navigating community programs.
Skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong communication skills
- Strong engagement skills
- Strong customer relations skills
- Strong computer skills, including word processing, data entry, and spreadsheet in a windows environment
- Familiarity with Google docs
- Strong teaming skills
- Bilingual (Spanish) preferred
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 2 years of Case Management experience required
Education Level
- Associate’s Degree in Human Services or Applied Science required
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $20.71 per hour
About the Company
- Operate from a strength-based model implementing the Family Development philosophy.
- Promotes agency mission.
