What are the responsibilities and job description for the Bilingual Family Partner CSA, Fee For Service position at Eliot?
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Eliot is seeking a bilingual Family Partner (English with Spanish, Arabic, Haitian Creole, or Portuguese) with lived experience as caregiver to a youth with special needs (preferably mental health needs). A candidate should have experience navigating child and family service systems & teaching families involved in those systems. They will engage with other caregivers using a wraparound approach to assist in meeting the needs of their child and family.
Responsibilities:
- Engage the parent/caregiver in activities in the home and in the community that are designed to address one or more goals on the youth’s treatment plan or ICP
- Assist parent/caregiver in meeting the needs of the youth through educating, supporting, coaching, modeling and guiding
- Teach parent/caregiver how to network/link to community resources and treatment providers
- Support parent/caregiver in advocating for services and resources to meet a youth’s needs
- Guide, support and foster empowerment including, linkages to individual, peer/parent support and self help groups
- Participate on Care Planning Team (CPT) and attend CPT meeting
- Participate in discharge planning
- Meet with providers and attend all IEP, hospital discharge, treatment team and other relevant meetings
- Provide telephone support and outreach to parent/caregiver
- Make regular telephone and face to face contacts with collateral providers
- Provide transportation to parent/caregiver as appropriate
Schedule: Varies
Compensation: $26.50/hour(includes 6% bilingual differential).
Eliot is committed to identifying and dismantling barriers that prevent people with marginalized racial identities from actualizing their full employment potential, assuming leadership roles, or from fully engaging at all levels in the workplace.
Salary : $27
