Job description

POSITION SUMMARY

Annual Salary: $ 43,260 ( $22.18), 37.5 hrs weekly

Responsible for ensuring pregnant and parenting teenage clients are provided a comprehensive program of services based on a professional assessment of their needs and availability of community resources. Moreover, the Case Manager will provide support to families parenting young children in the areas of breastfeeding, attachment, child development and other related topics.

JOB DUTIES

· Meets with clients to identify and assess their problems and needs; determines services required and develops a service plan.

· Helps clients locate community resources to resolve some of their problems; refers clients and/or acts as advocate in obtaining services for them; acts as liaison between service providers, clients and others involved in clients’ lives.

· Maintains frequent contact with clients through home visits, office appointments and telephone conversations to follow through with services, and develop effective relationships to promote positive pregnancy outcome, effective parenting skills and overcome resistance of clients and family.

· Acts as a mentor to clients and educates them in the areas of health, child development, well baby care, breastfeeding, attachment and parenting, nutrition, vocational development, further education, and related areas in order to help them become self-sufficient and effective parents following the PAT evidence-based curriculum.

· Provides short-term guidance to clients with difficulties and challenges that need immediate resolution.

· Provides transportation for clients to attend appointments to ensure they are able to receive needed services.

· Facilitates/co-facilitates group meetings for pregnant and parenting clients in various settings.

· Identifies and reports on possible instances of child abuse.

· Maintains a variety of records relating clients and services; prepares routine and special reports.

· Maintains a working knowledge of services available in the community; maintains effective working relationships with DPSS, DCFS, schools and other resources in the community to facilitate advocacy and services for clients.

· Maintains professional skills and knowledge through in-service programs, reading and professional contacts in the field.

· Performs a wide variety of related duties depending on client’s needs (e.g., test clients’ children for developmental delays, survey clients on specific topics for research purposes, assist clients with such things as apartment hunting and moving where no other help exists, and ordering and distribution condoms, booklets on STD’s, birth control, healthy relationship and pregnancy).

POSITION REQUIREMENT

· Working knowledge of child and adolescent development and social services typically resulting from any combination of a BA Degree in a related field and a minimum of 2 years of case management working with teenage/multi-cultural clients.

· Working knowledge of early childhood education and the developmental needs of babies and toddlers, typically resulting from completion of any combination of formal education, seminars, and work experience in related areas.

· Working knowledge of current welfare policies, child abuse reporting laws, Agency/State program policies, school laws relating to teenagers, and the legal issues pertaining to teens, parenting, custody, child care, marital/domestic violence, welfare and public assistance.

· Effective written/oral communication and engagement skills to develop effective rapport and personal relationships and to counsel and mentor young people, essential characteristics for mastering PAT’s five core competency areas (family support and parenting education; child and family development; human diversity within family systems; health, safety and nutrition; and relationship between families and communities). Some specific assignments may require fluency in a second language.

· Ability to relate well with and develop effective and positive working relationships with teenage clients from different cultures living at poverty levels.

· Working knowledge of counseling, health, education, child care and other resources in the community.

· Crisis intervention skills (e.g., conflict resolution, domestic violence intervention).

· General computer skills and ability to learn and use a data system.

· Valid Californiadriver’s license, and an insured automobile to drive to clients’ homes and to transport clients as necessary.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $22.18 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• working with teenage/multi-cultural clients: 2 years (Required)
• Case Management: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: One location

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