Position Details
- Conducts assigned intake interviews with new participants and facilitates goal planning with staff or participants using a domestic violence trauma informed approach.
- Coordinates families’ assigned visitation scheduling utilizing best practices and guiding principles of supervised visitation programming.
- Facilitates supervised visits and exchanges between parents at the LSVC site.
- Maintains professional relationships with parents and children while treating everyone with respect. Engages in ongoing assessment and evaluation of the family’s goals. Provides verbal feedback to participants regarding their conduct and progress in visits.
- Debriefs with parents and children before/after supervised visitation/exchanges and conducts weekly check-in by phone with parents
- Provides supportive referrals for parents as appropriate
- Ensures successful execution of standards, policies and procedures of confidentiality and programming focused on empowerment and safety.
- Intervenes with participants when LSVC guidelines are not being followed or when there is a threat of harm or actual harm to the children, victim, staff, or other individuals: logs facts, intervention taken.
- Provides an atmosphere that promotes and reinforces non-violent, non-manipulative, non-coercive behavior and communication skills, and respect and empathy for self and others.
- Responds effectively toward solving problems or conflict by recognizing a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Participates in staff meetings, training, and technical assistance opportunities as well as other Justice for Families related meetings as assigned.
- Helps supervise the MSW student Visitation Facilitators’ practice during the delivery of supervised visitation sessions to support a positive learning experience and insure observance of LSVC procedures.
Work Site Specifics
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
As one of the nation’s largest Jesuit, Catholic universities, Loyola University Chicago fosters a transformative cultural experience that honors diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are committed to not only recruiting, but also retaining a diverse, mission driven workforce and enabling a culture of inclusiveness in an environment that values service excellence, stewardship, personal well-being, and professional development for all of our employees. Loyola University Chicago supports its staff and faculty with a wide array of affordable, comprehensive and competitive benefits centered on health and wellness, financial security, equity, and work-life balance. We actively seek those who wish to join our faculty, staff, and students in a community of diverse opinions, perspectives, and backgrounds supporting our Jesuit mission and striving toward the same goal of being persons for and with others.