This position is responsible for providing a variety of direct and indirect service to clients in the Family First program.

Cathy Story
cathys@htop.org
970.248.2775

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Employee must have regular attendance/punctuality, be able to cooperate with others, and be completely honest. Other assigned duties include:
1. Conducting initial client interviews including intake and assessment.
2. Providing 30 hours of face-to-face contact with active participants including groups, family visits, and individual sessions with youth.
3. Providing individual sessions with parents of participants as family requests them.
4. Coordinating weekly psycho-educational classes for participants at multiple sites, coordinating quarterly educational classes for parents of participants, developing curriculum, coordinating speakers, arranging transportation, preparation and presentation of educational materials, ordering and purchasing necessary supplies and food.
5. Maintaining a case load deemed appropriate by supervisors, which requires effective time management skills.
6. Maintaining documentation and client files with accurate, directive case notes and all other forms required by the program model.
7. Data entry of client files.
8. Providing billing reports to Hilltop accounting department for Medicaid.
9. Running monthly statistic reports and audits.
10. Marketing the program to schools and community agencies that serve youth.
11. Providing transportation for youth to group, home, and other activities as necessary.
12. Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This position is responsible for supervising child care providers and interns as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and /or ability required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
High school diploma or general education degree (GED); one to three months related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS PREFERRED:
Education: Associates or bachelors degree in a related field (Early Childhood Education,
Psychology, Human Services, etc.).
Experience: work experience or training in case management, group facilitation, parenting strategies, strength based approaches, and/or healthy boundaries.
Special Skills: Bi-lingual.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Must be able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, as well as Hilltop and program specific policies and procedures. Must be able to write routine documentation as required. Must be able to verbally communicate effectively with clients and co-workers.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Must be able to add and subtract two digit numbers, and to multiply and divide by 10’s and 100’s. Must be able to perform these operations using units of American money, weight measurements, volume measurement, and distance. Must be able to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY
Must be able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Must be able to interpret instructions that are furnished in a variety of formats including written, oral, diagram, and/or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
• CPR Certificate/First Aid Certificate
• Colorado Driver’s License
• Certificate from Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI Training), preferred.

CLEARANCES
The following background checks are conducted by Hilltop Community Resources:
• Criminal background
• Child Abuse Registry

EXPOSURE CATEGORY: [ 2 ]
1) - Job tasks involve exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue.
2) - Job tasks involve no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue, but employment may require unplanned category 1 exposure.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Mobility:
• Must be able to stand 20% of the time; sit 50% of the time; walk 30% of the time.
• Must be able to climb (ascend or descend ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, etc., using feet and legs and/or hands and arms).
• Must be able to stoop (bend body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist).
• Must be able to kneel (bend legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees).
• Must be able to crouch (bend body downward and forward by bending legs and spine).
• Must be able to crawl (move about on hands and knees or hands and feet).
• Must be able to reach (extend hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction).

Dexterity:
• Must be able to handle (seize, hold, grasp, turn or otherwise work with hand or hands).
• Must be able to finger (grasp, pinch, or otherwise work primarily with fingers).
• Must be able to feel (perceive the attributes of an object, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips).

Lifting:
• Must be able to exert up to 25 pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.

Communication:
• Must be able to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word. Must be able to clearly communicate with others by way of the English language.

Hearing:
• Must be able to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Must be able to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

Vision: Must have the following vision abilities:
• Close vision (clear at 20 inches or less).
• Far vision (clear at 20 feet or more).
• Depth perception (Three-dimensional vision. The ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are.)
• Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).

Physical effort:
• Light work (light physical effort is required by handling objects up to 20 pounds occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently).

WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Physical surroundings:
• 80% of time is spent indoors; 20% of time is spent outdoors.
• Occasionally exposed to physically and/or verbally aggressive clients.
• The noise level is usually moderate.