Part Time Non-Exempt $26.00 to $30.00 hourly ( + Bonus Potential)

Beech Acres Parenting Center has been serving the community for 175 years. We uncover the natural gifts of children by unleashing the power of parents and caregivers. As a contemporary parenting center, Beech Acres serves over 35,000 people annually through a wide range of services including foster care, kinship care, adoption, behavioral health support in schools, parent coaching and much more. All of our programs are founded in our Natural Strength Parenting™ framework which enables parents to unlock their own potential by building on their unique strengths. With our growth, we are looking for a Parent Connext Family Specialist - Part-time  If this is you, please look at our requirements and apply today!

Benefits:

• Generous compensation within the non-profit sector along with bonus opportunities for all team members.
• Benefits effective 1^st day of hire which includes health care, dental and vision.
• Best in market paid time off benefits. Eligible to receive up to 42 days your first year.
• Life insurances and disability packages
• 401K match
• Tuition + Licensure reimbursement
• Cell phone + Mileage reimbursement
• Awards and recognition programs
• Professional Development
• Clinical and Training supervision and in-house training to achieve CEU’s
• Workplace Flexibility
• Employee Resource Groups
• And much more

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Multidisciplinary role responsible for ensuring families have access to relevant services providing service navigation, individual customized support based on need, and group facilitation services through agency and evidence-based models.

Education and Coaching

• Educates parents on safety and risk awareness, increasing natural support, fatherhood, and improving parenting skills.
• Facilitates learning and groups for parents, caregivers, and children and maintains fidelity to the designated models.
• Provide Parent Academy workshops and groups in the evening
• Identify specialized needs for parents and caregivers and connect them with appropriate resources and supportive services within the BAPC service continuum or community.
• Performs all work with trauma-informed care and healing-centered treatment, providing safety planning procedures.
• Coach parenting skills based on promising practices and evidence-based models.
• Provides advocacy and assistance to parents and caregivers in negotiating barriers that get in the way of them supporting the children in their home (financial, housing, food security, transportation, schools, health care, etc.)

Compliance

• Maintains regular contact with stakeholders involved in client caseload to ensure communication about program participation and progress to goals to support client’s success best.
• Maintain 50% of work hours in direct contact with parents and caregivers participating in the program and assigned to caseload.
• Monitor client engagement in services and communicate gaps and methods for re-engagement.
• Conducts assessments with outcome tools to understand needs and support identifying and achieving goals.
• Complete documentation promptly, accurately, consistently, and according to agency contractual agreements and COA standards.

Parenting Time

• Supervise and observe Parenting Time (visitation) to ensure safe and nurturing interactions on-site, in the home, and in the community.
• Provide intervention techniques and feedback to participating families.
• Participate as a team member and provide input into permanency planning and needed services for children served.

This role is office, and community-based and requires frequent travel throughout the community to support program recruitment, events, and outreach. Office responsibilities may be a mix of hybrid (in-person, online). Working outside of standard office hours, including evenings and weekends, is also required.  Providing Parent Academies and groups in the even counts towards in office hours.

Part-time staff: 24 hours per week.  2 days in the office one day remote

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• 3+ years related work experience supporting services for kids and families.
• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, Social Work, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Child & Family Studies, Criminal Justice or related Human Services area preferred.
• Valid driver’s license; must maintain agency-required auto insurance of $100,000 per person, $300,000 per accident, and $100,000 property damage.  
• Knowledge of case management and mental health billing.
• Knowledge of peer-to-peer support and/or mentoring.
• Strong coaching ability with the capability to customize a developed program to meet the needs of varying customers.
• Solid organizational and collaborative skills, with the ability to work independently and have a method to maintain organization.
• Outstanding facilitation skills, with the ability to engage and train diverse audiences.
• Willingness to maintain a flexible schedule that may include evening and weekend hours.

Beech Acres is an Equal Opportunity Employer

BAPC provides equal employment opportunities (“EEO”) to all persons, consistent with applicable federal, state and local equal employment opportunity laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, religion, ancestry, military or veteran status, color, national origin, or any other applicable statutorily protected group status under local, state, or federal law. This applies to all phases of the employment relationship including recruitment, hiring, compensation, advancement, and discipline.