Oneida County Foster Care -Case Aide

Job Overview

Join the team at The House of the Good Shepherd as a ONEIDA COUNTY FOSTER CARE
-CASE AIDE (2810).

Job Location
:
Herkimer Road Office - Utica, NY
Position Type
:
Full Time
Salary Range
: $19.47 - $19.47 Hourly
Travel Percentage
:
Up to 50%
Job Shift
:
Day

Supervise and provide transportation for visitation. Document progress notes regarding the interactions with the families in Connections. Facilitate pre-visitation and post-visitation meetings with birth parents, focusing on Coaching Family Visit strategies and techniques. Facilitate productive working relationships between birth and foster families. Implement the Sanctuary model of care into visitation while providing guidance to the families in their areas of needs to meet their permanency planning goal.

• Participate in weekly staff meetings.
• Provide approximately 15 hours of supervised visitation to the families in care.
• Provide approximately 5 hours of pre and post visitation meetings with birth families to focus on Coaching Family Visit strategies and techniques.
• Provide approximately 8-10 hours of transportation time to the families in care.
• Provide approximately 5 hours a week for documentation.
• Assist the program in ensuring that the vehicles, visitation rooms and community areas are in working order.
• Communicate strengths and areas of need of both the foster families and the birth families to the workers assigned to the case.
• Complete related tasks/duties as assigned by Visitation and Operations Supervisor/Treatment Team Supervisor.

High School Diploma or equivalent
Valid NYS driver's license with one year of driving experience

The House of the Good Shepherd is an equal opportunity employer.