Visitation Counselor - Acenda Health

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CoachAcenda Integrated Health is recruiting for a Visitation Counselor to support the Family Ties Program in Glassboro, New Jersey.

As a non-profit organization, we are solely committed to our mission of moving lives forward. Acenda provides over 100 life-enhancing programs and services to individuals, families, and communities throughout New Jersey. By bringing together our bright teams, innovative services, and understanding, caring hearts, we as an organization are moving upward to move lives forward. We join together to provide a wide range of mental health, crisis services, parenting support, family-focused therapy, and residential programming.

Are you looking to build a career where you'll make a real impact in the lives of others? Your interest in mental health, human services, or related life experience is valuable to us! We welcome you to join our team of caring, passionate and motivated individuals as a Visitation Counselor. Acenda's expert team helps each individual, family and community move forward in their journey towards health and happiness.

Job 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.

Responsibilities:

• Help maintain the parent-child bond by providing visits for children in foster care and their parents
• Coordinate visits between parents and resource parents and transport children to and from visits
• 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
• Help stabilize families who reunify during our intervention
• Work collaboratively with peers, DCP&P and other community providers
• Assist parents with concrete needs and link to resources that can assist with reunification goal
• Complete documentation consistent with program andagencyrequirements.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in counseling, psychology or social work
• Strong engaging, communication and collaboration skills
• Provide culturally sensitive and responsive service delivery.
• Professionalism, ethics and a commitment to excellence in care
• Must demonstrate initiative, creativity, reliability and the ability to work well independently

We Provide:

• An Innovative culture that encourages you to grow and learn with the agency
• Mission-driven core
• Health, Vision and Dental coverage for you and your family
• 401(k) with up to a 5% employer match
• Generous time-off
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Year-end performance bonuses

Department/Program
CC10040 Family Ties