Location: Camden County

Job Status: Temporary

Position Summary

The Visitation Aide is responsible for transporting children and/or parents to and from visitation locations; ensuring safety of passengers, maintaining vehicle; Supervises visits, as needed; Documents transportation encounters and visits; Communicates with visitation specialists, parents, resource parents, children, etc.

Duties and Responsibilities

Engaging

• Initiates and maintains ongoing communication with families in a culturally sensitive manner utilizing a family's preferred language taking into consideration a family's faith and culture.
• Ensures the environment for parent-child contact is safe, non-traumatizing, and promotes healthy attachment.
• Initiates and maintains ongoing communication with DCP&P, other providers, and supports.

Active Listening

• Creates an environment that empowers family members, including parents, children, and caregivers to communicate their goals and needs.
• Utilizes various interviewing and/or communication techniques in a culturally competent manner.
• Recognizes non-verbal communication and maintains good eye contact and posture.

Teaming

• Advocates for parents/families as necessary and supports them in advocating for themselves.

Coaching

• Operates from a trauma-informed perspective.

Requirements

Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Minimum of 1 year experience with children and families, particularly families involved with the child welfare system and/ or affected by trauma.

Note: Thirty (30) semester hour credits from an accredited college, which must include twelve (12) semester hour credits in the behavioral sciences, may be substituted for the experience listed above.

License: Required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey and a clean driver's abstract.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of region's local and highway roads.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Computer literacy with working knowledge of and proficiency in computer applications such as Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel, etc.

Working Conditions:

• A flexible working schedule is required to accommodate families which includes night, weekends and/or holidays.
• Work includes lifting individuals up to, or in excess of, 50 pounds, and performing work that requires frequent standing, sitting, bending, reaching, squatting, kneeling, and moving.

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Disclaimer Many positions require motor vehicle record evaluations and medical clearances. Center For Family Services is an equal opportunity employer offering competitive salaries and excellent benefits packages.