Family Support Partner

Job Description
Experience level: Associate


Experience required: 2 Years


Education level: Master's degree


Job function: Health Care Provider


Industry: Social


Pay rate : $45 per hour


Total position: 1


Relocation assistance: No

Work Location; Fairfax-Falls Church community services Board (8221 Willow Oaks Corporate Drive)

Estimated Regular hours/week : 25

Job Summary

Are you interested in being part of a team that is having a positive impact on the lives of youth and their families? Have you received training, or have you been able to model coping and recovery behaviors for youth and their families on their road to progress? If so, please consider supporting our Turning Point Program Services as a Family Support Partner.

Our Turning Point team is committed to providing competent, creative high-fidelity wraparound services that improve and empower our youth and their families to successfully manage complex mental health, substance use and psychotic disorder issues with community and office-based services. If your professional values are focused around assisting youth and their families with community-based interventions to lessen the likelihood of an out of home placement, exploring strategies with families to allow them to independently resolve challenges, provide hope to families when their children are having severe mental health experiences, and see the value in the synergy of clinical interventions and the lived experience of peer supports to help a youth and their family reach their goals for recovery, then this may be the position for you! Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board is an agency that fosters innovation, embraces inclusivity, offers opportunities to professionally learn and grow, and uses a team approach to achieve the highest level of service driven results for our clients and their families.

We respect and promote the dignity, rights and full participation of youth and their families to achieve our mission. We are located within easy commuting distance from Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Prince William County. We are seeking qualified applicants to fill a part-time Family Support Partner position in the Turning Point Program. This position is grant funded and is up for renewal annually in September. The individual working in this role can expect to work between 10 and 25 hours per week, with some flexibilities for telework.

Pay is not to exceed 50 dollars/hour.

About This Role: Turning Point offers a team environment and flexible work hours, and encourages collaboration with other staff including peer support specialist, education and employment specialists, outpatient therapists, case managers, and psychiatrists.

In this role you will:

• Provide leadership at all levels in the creation and maintenance of a positive and collaborative working environment where all Turning Point staff and enrolled youth and their families feel respected and supported.
• Use personal past experiences, provide peer support to parents/caregivers served in the Turning Point program, including current and former families.
• Assist parents/caregivers with successful engagement, advocacy, and connection to formal and informal resources helping them build resiliency as a family.
• Provide effective peer support utilizing the Coordinated Specialty Care framework for services to parents/caregivers.
• Develop and implement family support treatment plans to promote progress of client and family.
• Timely clinical documentation into EHR that meets requisite agency, Federal, Medicaid, MCO and licensure standards.
• Administer to all youth and families being served related data tools completed at identified data collection points.
• Attend youth and family team meetings as appropriate. Coach parents/caregivers and family members on how to advocate for themselves.
• Document of all services, contacts and attempted contact with client, their family and collaterals. •Maintain healthy boundaries with clients and their families.
• Attend all mandatory county and state trainings as appropriate. Participate in individual and group coaching, as required. •Carry an after-hours work phone and provide telephone and, at times, face-to-face after-hours support to youth and families.

Requirements

Skills Required

• Must be the biological or adoptive parent or person in the parent role who has been the primary caregiver of a child with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges
• Must have experience navigating the Virginia behavioral health systems with their child
• Prior experience related to psychosis or at-risk for psychosis (either as a family member or family support partner)
• Experience collaborating with families, natural supports, and other community stakeholders
• Be a proficient user level of MS Suite and an EHR
• Bilingual and multilingual candidates encouraged to apply
• 1 years of experience providing recovery services in a human services environment
• Experience assessing client needs and providing access to appropriate services
• Experience providing clinical documentation necessary to maintain client records including treatment planning/wellness recovery plan, progress notes, quarterly reviews and annual assessments
• Be a proficient user level of MS Suite and an EHR
• 3 years of experience providing services to youth and families with complex mental health, substance use and co-occurring disorders
• 1-2 years of experience providing recovery services in a human services environment
• Prior experience related to psychosis or at-risk for psychosis (either as a family member or family support partner)
• Experience with and participating in CSC interventions or in family partnership meetings
• Experience collaborating with families, natural supports, and other community stakeholders
• High School diploma or GED equivalent
• Certification or registration or considering certification or registration as a Parent Support Partner, Peer Recovery Specialist or National Certified Peer Specialist
• Bachelor's degree in psychology, social work, counseling or a related behavioral science field