What are the responsibilities and job description for the Family Partnership Meeting Facilitator position at City of Lynchburg, VA?
Description
Family Partnership Meeting Facilitator
Lynchburg Human Services is seeking enthusiastic, dedicated, professional candidates for the Family Partnership Meeting (FPM) Facilitator position. The position involves working closely with Child Protective Services, Ongoing Services, Foster Care, and Adoption to partner with families to increase the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and youth served in the City of Lynchburg.
Essential Duties
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Other duties to provide direct or indirect service to the citizens may be assigned.
The successful candidate will join a Child Welfare team that is diverse and dedicated to making Lynchburg City, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, a Kin-First Culture.
The FPM facilitator is responsible for facilitating Family Partnership Meetings for the City of Lynchburg's Human Services Department with the goals of:
Developing a plan that acknowledges safety, permanency and well-being for children and families.
Increasing family engagement, particularly kinship work, in all child and adult welfare practices.
Promoting collaboration amongst families, staff, and service providers for successful plan implementation. Facilitate the FPM as an impartial person respecting diverse family cultural, ethnic, and religious beliefs and values.
Additionally, the candidate is expected to use solution focused, strengths-based and trauma-informed perspectives and strategies for accomplishing the goals.
Major responsibilities include:
Preparing family members and service providers for the FPM to include explaining the process, purpose and the values underlying the approach.
Coordinating meeting times to coincide with critical and prompt service delivery.
Ensuring adequate space availability for meetings.
Contacting parties to be invited and soliciting additional family and/or community partner participation.
Assisting in addressing family members concerns prior to the FPM and identifying family goals to be included in the family plan.
Diffusing conflict and promoting permanency and safety of children involved for successful development of a safety and permanency plan.
Prepare written documents and case notes respecting the dignity and worth of individuals.
Attending pre family partnership meetings with the caseworker, the guardian-ad-litem and other parties as needed.
Assures that how we do our work is as important as the work we do.
The candidate must demonstrate the capacities to: Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. Listen actively to gather and analyze pertinent and relevant information. Communicate information and ideas orally and in writing with great clarity that promotes understanding. Negotiate skillfully to resolve issues objectively. Organize and plan skillfully. Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with family members, agency staff, and community partners. Work non-traditional hours to meet the needs of families served. Be a part of the agency’s Community Engagement Committee.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
Minimum Education and Experience Required
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Bachelor's degree in a Human Services field or related area supplemented with work experience in the assigned program areas or any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
Skills- Operating a computer to enter, retrieve or modify data; and the use of word processing, spreadsheet, database, desktop publishing, e-mail, Internet, or other computer programs.
Abilities-Demonstrated ability to: communicate effectively both orally and in writing; gather and interpret data, reach logical conclusions and present findings and recommendations; assess program and staff needs; plan, coordinate and evaluate program activities; train, advise, direct and evaluate others on the program requirements; maintain effective working relationships with others; identify problems and needs and assess services in problem solving; interpret and apply regulations and procedures; conduct effective training; public speaking; interact professionally with a diverse group of people; produce meaningful, clear, and concise documents with the proper grammar and usage; organize and prepare statistical records; perform mathematical calculations; and read understand, and interpret program/technical reports and related materials.
Additional Requirements
Possess valid driver's license issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia and acceptable driving record according to City criteria. View City's Driving Criteria.
Must satisfactorily complete criminal background check, drug and alcohol screen and Child Protective Services Registry check.
Must successfully complete IS100 and IS700 National Incident Management (NIMS) training within 90 days of employment. May also be required to complete higher levels of NIMS training as determined appropriate for the position.
