Visitation Coach

Salary : $43,074.71 Annually

Location : Social Services Main Hickory, NC

Job Type : Full-Time

Job Number : 02252

Department : Social Services

Opening Date : 11 / 21 / 2025

Closing Date : 12 / 5 / 2025 11 : 59 PM Eastern

Position Description

Catawba County Social Services is seeking a compassionate team member to support and enhance the strengths of parents while helping them develop new parenting skills. In this position, you will provide strength-based coaching to parents of children experiencing foster care during supervised visitation. Children enter foster care due to abuse, neglect, and / or dependency. This role is critical to assist families in achieving a permanent plan of reunification.

This position follows a second-shift schedule, typically from 1 : 00 PM to 9 : 00 PM, making it a great fit for those with daytime commitments. The role requires approximately two weekend shifts per month, scheduled on a rotating basis. Weekend shifts are limited to one day per weekend. This is a full-time position with a total of 40 hours worked per week.

As a visitation coach, you are responsible for transporting children and parents to supervised visitation. A county car is available, and in rare circumstances, you would transport in your own vehicle. The visits are designed to build on parenting skills and reinforce the parent / child relationship. You will provide coaching to parents both before and after to help them build on their parenting skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide visitation coaching for parent / child visitations, assisting parents to learn practical behavioral approaches for children through supervision, coaching, modeling, and redirection
• Provide transportation for children and parents to remove barriers and facilitate access to necessary services, such as court-ordered visitation and school.
• Provide case management activities, including but not limited to completion of social histories, calling / interviewing of collateral contacts, evaluation of client situation, and assessment of safety and well-being of the child, participation in Child and Family Team Meetings, informing parents and foster parents of services, and coordinating services when needed
• Complete appropriate and timely documentation in the permanency planning record, including recording all interactions with the child and writing of visitation summaries
• Work with the Permanency Planning team to address any crisis as you are available

Qualifications

Additional Requirements

Preferences :

Catawba County is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Catawba County Benefits

As of 7 / 1 / 2024 :

You will find that Catawba County has one of the best benefits packages around. Our Human Resources staff are dedicated to keeping in touch with trends in benefits on both a local and national level, listening to employees' suggestions regarding benefits, and continually reviewing to ensure our benefits package is of good quality and meets the needs of both our employees and our organization. Available benefits include :

Health Care

Employee Wellness

Work Life Balance

Financial Security

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Describe your social work experience, specifically any experience in or exposure to Child Welfare.

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What experience do you have in coaching and teaching children and families regarding behavioral interventions? Give specific examples.

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Are you available to work Monday - Friday 1-9 PM?

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Are you available to work every other weekend?

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