Visitation Counselor - Tvs

If you want job flexibility and to make a difference in the lives of children and families and the community, join Acenda's Therapeutic Visitation Services!  
You'd be joining a team focused on helping parents improve their relationship with their children through supervised and therapeutic visitation.
Overview: Visitation Counselors provide progressive visits for children in foster care and their parents with the goal of improving family functioning so reunification can occur or the children attain permanency. Flexible schedules, agency vehicle, laptop and cell phone provided.
What You'll Do As a Visitation Counselor

• Help stabilize families who reunify during our intervention
• Complete documentation consistent with program and agency requirements.   
• Provide visit planning, coaching techniques and debriefing; helping to improve parenting skills and interactions so reunification or permanency can occur
• Facilitate meaningful visits; helping parents meet the physical, emotional and developmental needs of their children
• Ensure the safety of children and model appropriate interactions between parents and children
• Assist parents with concrete needs and link to resources that can assist with reunification goal
• Help maintain the parent-child bond by providing visits for children in foster care and their parents
• Work collaboratively with peers, DCP&P and other community providers
• Coordinate visits between parents and resource parents and transport children to and from visits

What Acenda Provides

• Flexibility with your work setting and hours
• Competitive salary and 401k with a match
• Health, vision, dental, and wellness program
• An innovative culture which allows you to grow and learn with the agency
• A supportive, inclusive, team-oriented environment
• Regular supervision and professional development opportunities
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Opportunities for quarterly incentives and Year-end performance bonuses
• CEU's and free training programs
• An agency vehicle, laptop and cell phone

What You'll Contribute As a Visitation Counselor

• Must demonstrate initiative, creativity, reliability and the ability to work well independently
• Bachelor's degree in counseling, psychology or social work  
• Must be able to exercise independent thinking and good judgment
• Must be able to analyze work, set goals, develop plans and utilize time effectively and efficiently
• Strong engaging, communication and collaboration skills
• Professionalism, ethics and a commitment to excellence in care
• Provide culturally sensitive and responsive service delivery.
• Must have and maintain a valid driver's license, use of an insured vehicle and an acceptable driving record

Together we'll be

• A passionate, innovative, care-focused team, working collaboratively and creatively to ensure the health and wellness of individuals and families in our communities

EEO 
Acenda is an integrated health care agency dedicated to industry-leading prevention, treatment and wellness services compassionately delivered to ensure that every individual, family and community achieves their greatest potential. 
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