Texas Home Visiting Case Manager

About the Role
As the Texas Home Visiting Home Visitor/Case Manager, you will Shine Hope as you deliver services based on the SafeCare model, including home visits, parent support groups and periodic developmental screenings to eligible families. You will provide families with information regarding parenting, child health, and home safety, per the SafeCare model, with sensitivity to cultural and socio-economic needs of each client. You will also positively presenting this program and the need for such programs to the local community and serve as a resource for program collaboration, the community, and other BCFS programs.

What you will do
As a member of our team you will have an impact on our clients through accomplishment of the following responsibilities:

• Recruit and engage families to receive services and determine family eligibility.
• Ensure compliance to Texas Home Visiting contract as well as fidelity to SafeCare model.
• Coordinate home visits as prescribed in the Texas Home Visiting program for the purpose of observing and providing information to parents.
• Perform approved developmental screening tool on all children in case load and document and report results.
• Provide resource and referral services linking families with community resources and support systems.
• Utilizing SafeCare curriculum, conduct education, either in the home as well as delivering monthly parent support groups, while ensuring fidelity to the model is maintained at all times.
• Manage caseloads and, timely and accurately, prepare various documentation for the purpose of providing information required for program compliance.
• Establish appropriate relationships with families that are based on equality and respect.
• Work with the families to build on the families' strengths to effect needed change.
• Model appropriate adult/child interactions to families.

As a 5 STARS team member, you'll bring to the team:
To be successful in this role and a great addition to our team we need you to come with the following:

• Requires a Bachelor's degree.
• Requires ability to drive assigned vehicle(s) or personal vehicle, with appropriate state license, following all laws applicable; must provide proof of liability insurance and must be eligible to be insured under Buckner's insurance policy. Must be age 21 or older to drive on behalf of Buckner
• Shining hope in others. (Your friendly attitude and willingness to learn is more important than a year's experience!)

Preferred Qualifications
In addition to the amazing qualifications and experiences listed above, if we had our say, we would also look for:

• Prior work experience in education, child health and development, child abuse or neglect, and/or parent education preferred.
• Knowledge of and/or experience using community resources preferred.
• Knowledge and experience with in-home visitation preferred.
• Ability to speak, read, and write Spanish preferred.
• A commitment to your own professional growth and development to enhance program services.
• A willingness and desire to build and maintain excellent working relationships with your co-workers, volunteers, and the community that we rely on to support our programs.

Our 5 STARS Perks:

• Medical and Dental benefits for associates and their eligible dependents.
• Payactiv, early access paid wages
• Life insurance.
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability benefits.
• Paid Time Off and Holidays.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Retirement Savings Plan.
• The 5 STARS Fun Benefit: encourages employees to spread good cheer to their co-workers and others, creating a happy, healthy environment for all!

Benefits eligibility is based on number of hours worked each week.

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