Mentor

Job Location(s):
Milwaukee, WI; West Allis, WI

Start Date:

Employment Term:
Regular

Employment Type:
Full Time

Starting Salary Range:
Not Provided

Required Education:
Bachelor's Degree

Required Experience:
3 to 20 years

Required Security Clearance:
None

Related Categories:
Social Services/Community, Non-Profit/Associations

SaintA’s mission is to facilitate equity, learning, healing, and wellness by restoring the connections that help children and families thrive.

Job Purpose:
Our next mentor will provide training and support that ensures case managers have the knowledge and skills to do their job effectively. By providing a solid foundation and support to case managers allows SaintA to carry out our vision where every child and family can thrive.

Duties:

• Consistently trains, models, coaches how to monitor the safety of children as the priority of all work and is able to assess for present and impending dangers, and the general safety of children in a variety of environments and articulate findings to others and document as required.
• Facilitate SaintA’s internal training program, including facilitating progress reports, safety assessments, presentations, safety exam, and any other portion of the training program.
• Train, coach, and model how to facilitate and monitor permanency planning for children and behavioral change planning for adult case participants by ensuring that families have the opportunity to enhance parental protective capacities that impact child safety by creating goals with families, effectively and timely connecting families to resources to help them meet their goals, continuously measuring progress, and clearly articulating what specific outcome is to be achieved in accordance with the Comprehensive Assessment Process.
• Teach, train, coach, and model how to Identify and provide referral to appropriate community and providers, authorize network services or non-network providers only when the service is not covered by other insurances and the service will support achievement of the identified goals.
• Teach, train, and model how to meet performance outcomes as specified by Federal/State/DMCPS/Agency.
• Facilitate classroom training and update or write curriculum in adherence with Ongoing Standards.
• Works collaboratively with child welfare supervisors and leadership team
• Supports the integration of trainees into their assigned Supervisory Teams. Has ongoing communication with trainees’ Supervisors to report progress, concerns, and other relevant information.
• Takes initiative, acts quickly and independently when the situation demands it; sees a need and takes appropriate action without being prompted or reminded; demonstrates ability to effectively deal with crisis situations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Master’s Preferred in social work, criminal justice, sociology, psychology, or a related field.
• It is preferred that BSWs are certified by the state of Wisconsin as a Certified Social Worker within 18 months of hire.
• It is preferred that Non BSWs need to complete approved training program within 24 months of hire and obtain state certification by 36 months of hire.
• 3 years minimum experience in child welfare/child and family services preferred.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English or Hmong/Laotian is preferred.
• Valid WI State Driver’s license.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and communicate effectively with families experiencing child safety issues and other related areas of need.

Position Details:

• Full time
• Understands the issues confronted by families within the child welfare system and the need to make effective connections for services.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the cultural differences among diverse groups and the need to adapt service provision to match these differences in respectful ways.
• Exhibit professionalism while working effectively and harmoniously with staff, program participants, social service agencies, legal parties, and the public.

• Demonstrate strong assessment skills and ability to create case plans based on a strength’s perspective.

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Organizational Information:
SaintA is a Wisconsin provider of family-centered care and educational services. As a 2021 Top Workplace of Southeastern Wisconsin and national leader of Trauma Informed Care,a philosophy and practice that acknowledges the profound effects of trauma on the developing brain, we are passionate about delivering quality, evidence-informed care to help children and families overcome trauma and thrive.

SaintA provides a rich continuum of services, including:

• Child Welfare and Foster Care
• Support for youth who have aged out of care
• Care Coordination and Wraparound services
• Mental health therapy and supports such as The Clinic @ SaintA, Family Preservation, Caregiver Support, Integrated Community Treatment
• Professional education and clinical consultation (for organizations, schools, and individual/family)

Interested parties please submit a cover letter and resume online.

We are committed to enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion and strongly encourage minority candidates to apply. For more information, visit our website www.sainta.org.

*To protect the health and well-being of our employees, clients, and community members we come in contact with on a daily basis, SaintA has decided to mandate the COVID vaccine for all employees or be approved with a qualified exemption. Please note that job candidates must be partially vaccinated within thirty (30) days of hire, and fully vaccinated within sixty (60) days of hire or approved for an exemption. *

SaintA is an equal opportunity employer.

Job Type: Full-time