Full-Time Family Advocate
Job Description
Job Title: Midcoast Children’s Advocacy Center (MCAC) Family Advocate
Job Status: Regular, Full-time (40 hours/week) ($19.57/hr; Estimated Annual Salary $40,705.60 plus benefits)
Job Location: Based in Rockland and/or Searsport, with possible backup support in Boothbay Harbor
Primary Responsibility: Provide advocacy & referrals to families and children who come to the MCAC following concerns of child sexual abuse in Knox and Waldo Counties, and in Eastern Cumberland/Lincoln/Sagadahoc (ECLS) County as needed/available.
Representative Family Advocacy Duties:
- Serve as the first point of contact for the non-offending care provider(s) to greet and establish rapport with the child victims and non-offending care provider within the MCAC setting and prior to them coming to the MCAC
- Serve as the liaison between non-offending care provider(s) and MDT partners only for the purposes of a MCAC referral with an exchange of limited information (led by the minimum information on the intake forms) for the purposes of referral services only
- Provide support for children and non-offending care provider(s) during interview process in addition to assisting non-offending care provider(s) with referrals to multi-disciplinary partner agencies
- Ensure the Family Room is appropriately ready to accommodate any special considerations that may need to be made for children or non-offending care providers
- Document all client and non-offending care provider(s) referral information into EmpowerDB according to the MCAC requirements, as well as maintain accurate and current files and records
- Conduct seven-day and thirty-day follow-up calls with all assisted clients at the MCAC
- Serve as the liaison to any referral partners should it be requested by the caregiver
- Ensure the Caregiver Follow Up Survey (OMA) is offered at every 30-day call
- Ensure that OMS survey has been offered to 100% of all families who come to the MCAC and has been entered into the OMS Dashboard by the end of each month
- Attend regularly scheduled group clinical supervision with the SASSMM team and program supervision with the MCAC Program Coordinator
- Work in collaboration with the MCAC Family Advocate for EC/L/S to coordinate client coverage and services
Client Services
- Complete SASSMM 47 hours Advocate Training
- Co-facilitate support groups and Helproom chats, as needed
- Perform other duties, as assigned
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work/life experience
- Awareness of and sensitivity to issues of sexual victimization of children and adults
- Experience in crisis and/or other human or advocacy services
- Understanding of the needs and challenges specific to supporting victims within rural communities
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently
- Have access to transportation
- Willingness to work flexible hours and respond to changing priorities
- Excellent computer literacy, organizational, facilitation, and oral and written communication skills
Accountability: Accountable to the MCAC Program Coordinator for all CAC programming. Accountable to the Executive Director regarding all agency programming and operations.
How to Apply
To Apply: Submit cover letter of interest, current resume, and list of 3 contacts for professional references to arian@sassmm.org122 total views, 0 today