Parent Educator Team Lead
San Antonio, TX (Unknown)
Posted 2 weeks ago
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Job Summary
Own and coordinate PAT home visiting program delivery, supervise up to three providers, ensure fidelity to the PAT model, and drive quality improvement through team meetings and caseload reviews.
- Manage caseload and compliance targets
- Supervise staff weekly or biweekly
- Lead team meetings and quality reviews
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Cultivate PAT referrals in local service area, which may entail leveraging community partnerships, marketing and some public speaking.
- Directly deliver PAT home visiting services to families, adhering to the model with fidelity.
- Maintain personal caseload in compliance with PAT standards and procedures including meeting compliance targets.
- Organizes and conducts monthly Group Connections and other community events, as necessary.
- Provides supervision for up to three PAT service providers and/or other support staff once weekly or twice per month, according to need.
- Conducts documented supervision with assigned staff and provides ongoing feedback to each provider concerning quality of services and work performance.
- Leads or participates in team meetings to ensure service goals are met and program and organizational developments are communicated, understood and implemented.
- Conducts weekly review of caseload of assigned staff and ensures the providers schedule family visits in the electronic records system.
- Reviews “no show” and “cancelation” concerns seeks to mitigate barriers to successful programming with each provider.
- Monitors goals and service delivery compliance to ensure delivery of services in the type and quantity consistent with the PAT guidelines and minimizes over and/or under-utilization of services.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in human services or other related discipline.
- At least two years prior experience providing support services to families. For internal candidates, one year of that must be through Pathways.
- General knowledge/understanding of clinical administration within a behavioral health care environment.
- Strong clinical skills and knowledge of treatment issues concerning children, adolescents, adults, and families.
- Experience with foster and/or adoptive children and families and knowledge of the DFPS system.
- Ability to support the agency's culture, growth, and success through communication, accountability, and positivity.
- Ability to be clear headed and decisive based on the scope of the position.
- Ability to work efficiently and effectively both individually and as part of a team.
- Ability to appropriately accept feedback through the supervision process - thus displaying the willingness to learn, grow, and improve.
- Competent in using Microsoft Word, Excel, the Internet, and other software applications.
Pathways Youth & Family Services is a community-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization specializing in foster care, adoption, residential care, and behavioral health services. Our StoryPathways became a reality on May 8, 1992, when Pathways Youth Home received a license to operate as an independent therapeutic foster family home for six boys in Leakey, Texas. Over the next 15 years, Pathways services expanded across the state of Texas with in-home services, foster care, adoption, residential care, and behavioral health. Pathways Youth and Family Services’ mission of transforming lives, families, and communities has been successful, by providing foster care and adoption services to more than 11,000 children and permanently placing an additional 4,000 more with a forever family.Pathways fulfills its vision of thriving children, resilient families, and strong communities through a holistic delivery of well-developed and appropriate services. With invaluable experience and a firm understanding of the proven practices and regulatory requirements that ground an organization in the communities it serves, Pathways’ values are rooted in, “excellence, diversity, innovation, integrity, compassion, collaboration, inspiration, persistence, respect, and empowerment.”Our programs include: Foster Care & Adoption Mosaic Behavioral Health 3H Youth Ranch Habilitative HomesToday, Pathways has offices in Austin, Abilene, Dallas, Houston, Kerrville, Mountain Home, and San Antonio.


