SPECIALIST 1 - HOMEBUILDERS (52829)

Summary

Practitioner will be responsible for providing direct social work services to each assigned client/client family as outlined by the Homebuilders ® program model under which the client is receiving services.

Primary Job Functions

1. Duties

• Behave with families in a way that reflects the program's values and beliefs.
• Conduct behaviorally specific, interactive, ongoing, holistic assessments that include family strengths, values, skills, problems, needs, and barriers to goal attainment.
• Collaborate with family members and referents to develop behaviorally specific, attainable intervention goals and corresponding service plans directly related to the risk of out-of-home placement.
• Incorporate research-based interventions that apply cognitive and behavioral principles and strategies to facilitate behavior change.
• Assess child, family, practitioner, and community safety throughout the family intervention and incorporate strategies to promote safety.
• Individually tailor services and maintain flexibility in schedules to meet the family members’ needs, goals, values, culture, circumstances, learning styles and abilities.
• Incorporate varied teaching methods to help family members acquire, maintain, and generalize skills through tailoring teaching methods, teaching moments, and assigning homework.
• Develop and maintain a positive, collegial working relationship with family members.
• Assume responsibility for motivating family members by incorporating various motivational enhancement strategies.
• Collaborate and advocate with formal and informal community support and systems impacting the family, while teaching family members to self-advocate.
• Advocate and provide concrete goods and services that are related to goal achievement, while teaching family members to meet their needs independently.
• Provide transition planning with the family by assessing goal attainment, planning for maintenance of progress, addressing concerns, and collaborating with referring social worker to address ongoing service needs.
• Conduct aftercare follow-up contact with the client/client family as specified by the program service model.

1. Practitioner Responsibilities.

• Serves families in their home or their natural environment.
• Development of a comprehensive service plan and discharge plan based on client/client family strengths, needs and preferences.
• Develop a relationship with the client/client family that facilitates achievement of their service plan goals.
• Monitor the progress of each need area as identified in the service/person-centered plan and facilitate revisions as appropriate.
• Coordinate and oversee initial and ongoing service assessment activities and perform all social work, case management and aftercare functions in a manner consistent with the applicable program/service model and with cultural competence.
• Utilizes data from the homebuilder client information system to routinely self-evaluate performance for model fidelity and outcome attainment.
• Review agency consumer satisfaction, outcomes, and risk management data; follows supervisory suggestions for service modification and improvements based upon this data; and suggests ways services could be further improved in response to this data.
• Embraces Professional Development Plans, Quality Enhancement Plans and Quality improvement Plans for program improvement. Participates in required QUEST activities.

1. Contribute to a positive, engaging work environment.

• Demonstrate and work within the Homebuilders® model which clearly shows the values and beliefs that guide program design.
• Uses behaviorally descriptive, value-neutral language, and avoids the use of labels and inference when communicating with or about family members.
• Display sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics
• Operate in a professional work environment.
• Perform other duties related to department goals and projects as needed.