Youth & Family Facilitator I - Transformative Wraparound

Pacific Clinics; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hiring incentive

Benefits package

401(k) match

Time off plans

Job summary

Pacific Clinics is seeking a Facilitator I to lead group discussions, workshops, or training sessions for youth and families within the Wraparound program. The role emphasizes strength-based, family-centered approaches, collaboration with parents and a multi-disciplinary team, and creating culturally sensitive plans for placement stability and community connections.

Work schedule is typically Monday–Friday, 9–5, with potential for evenings.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree (M.S./M.A.) in related field and 1+ year of experience serving individuals with complex needs including SED youth/families and/or youth residential settings, and with the mental health, child welfare and/or juvenile probation systems, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Speak, read, and/or write another language may be required in some programs/areas.
• Availability to participate in 24-hour on-call program.
• Programs in San Bernardino require BBS registration and Facilitators to be licensed in six (6) years.

Responsibilities

• Provides facilitation and coordination in the development of individualized services for youth and families.
• Implements strength-based family centered methodology into planning and develops creative methods to ensure individualized culturally sensitive care.
• Understands interactions of complex systems in the context of a family’s life, service delivery structures and the community’s resources.
• Elicits, values and incorporates divergent perspectives in action plans and strategies in order to help youth stabilize in a placement and connect them with a permanent setting.
• Partners with parents of special needs children in order to ensure parent voice, choice and access.
• Facilitates the development and refinement of effective reactive and proactive safety plans.
• Provides leadership role in linking parents, youth and staff when a crisis arises.
• Ensures the involvement of natural members with the Child and Family team.
• Assists Family Specialists and other line personnel to develop strength-based interventions and strategies which include plans for transition to primary caregiver.
• Provides meeting minutes to all Child and Family Team members and facilitates communication plans to support on-going inclusion and accountability of all team members.
• Participates effectively in both internal and external multidisciplinary clinical teams.
• Assesses and integrates internal and external customers’ concerns, needs and expectations into planning process.

Skills

Conflict resolution

Documents clearly and accurately

Encouraging customer focus

Leads team performance

Time management

Education

Master's Degree (M.S./M.A.) in related field

Job description

Pacific Clinics is seeking a Facilitator I to lead group discussions, workshops, or training sessions for youth and families within the Wraparound program. The role emphasizes strength-based, family-centered approaches, collaboration with parents and a multi-disciplinary team, and creating culturally sensitive plans for placement stability and community connections.

Work schedule is typically Monday–Friday, 9–5, with potential for evenings.