Job Description

Job Duties:

The Family Advocate must provide the following constellation of services: 1. Crisis, mental health, and risk assessment and intervention, and support for children and family members at all stages of involvement with TBCAC 2. Assessment of individual needs and cultural considerations for the child and family to ensure those needs are addressed 3. Provision of education and access to victims' rights and crime victims' compensation and establish peer support with victim advocacy agencies 4. Assistance in procuring concrete services (housing, protective orders, domestic violence intervention, food, transportation, public assistance, etc.) 5. Provision of referrals for specialized, trauma focused, evidence-supported mental health and medical treatment, if not provided at the CAC 6. Linkage to transportation to interviews, court, treatment, and other case-related meetings 7. Engagement in family response regarding participation in the investigation and/or prosecution 8. Active participation in staffing & MDT meetings to discuss the unique needs of the child and family and plan associated support services, ensure the seamless coordination of services, and ensure the child and family's concerns are heard and addressed 9. Linkage to or provision of updates to the family on case status, continuances, dispositions, sentencing, and inmate status notification (including offender release from custody) 10. Linkage to or provision of court education and support 11. Provide ongoing case management services through the life of the case with timely documentation in NCAtrak and EHR /Epic including pre and post evaluation follow-up 12. Provide child advocacy services during the CME appointment Family advocate provides clinic support to multiple locations and other duties as directed by supervisor. Family advocate will travel to and participate in MDT meetings. The Family Advocate must provide the following constellation of services: 1. Crisis, mental health, and risk assessment and intervention, and support for children and family members at all stages of involvement with TBCAC 2. Assessment of individual needs and cultural considerations for the child and family to ensure those needs are addressed 3. Provision of education and access to victims' rights and crime victims' compensation and establish peer support with victim advocacy agencies 4. Assistance in procuring concrete services (housing, protective orders, domestic violence intervention, food, transportation, public assistance, etc.) 5. Provision of referrals for specialized, trauma focused, evidence-supported mental health and medical treatment, if not provided at the CAC 6. Linkage to transportation to interviews, court, treatment, and other case-related meetings 7. Engagement in family response regarding participation in the investigation and/or prosecution 8. Active participation in staffing & MDT meetings to discuss the unique needs of the child and family and plan associated support services, ensure the seamless coordination of services, and ensure the child and family's concerns are heard and addressed 9. Linkage to or provision of updates to the family on case status, continuances, dispositions, sentencing, and inmate status notification (including offender release from custody) 10. Linkage to or provision of court education and support 11. Provide ongoing case management services through the life of the case with timely documentation in NCAtrak and EHR /Epic including pre and post evaluation follow-up 12. Provide child advocacy services during the CME appointment Family advocate provides clinic support to multiple locations and other duties as directed by supervisor. Family advocate will travel to and participate in MDT meetings.

CLINICAL SUPPORT POSITION – NOT SUBJECT TO STATE HUMAN RESOURCES ACT

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University is affiliated with ECU Health Medical Center, which serves as its teaching hospital, as well as the flagship hospital for ECU Health.

Special Instructions To Application:

• Please ensure your full range of knowledge, skills, abilities, experience and education are listed on your application. Do not write 'see resume' on your application when completing the job duties section.
• If you answer the questions at the end of the application, please ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences to support your answers (see job duties section of previous employment).
• Failure to answer the questions at the end of the application will not preclude your application from being considered but may result in your application not receiving full consideration of your knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Minimum Education/Experience:

Bachelor's degree; or equivalent combination of training and experience. All degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions.

Full time or Part time: Full Time

Position Location (city): Greenville

Position Number: 964812

Organizational Unit Overview:

TEDI BEAR Children's Advocacy Center of the Department of Pediatrics is in accord with this primary purpose. This purpose will be achieved by providing 1) comprehensive evaluation and treatment of children who have been referred because of suspected abuse and/or neglect and 2) providing an educational resource for professionals in eastern North Carolina who provide such evaluations themselves in their own communities 3) Provide child abuse prevention to professionals, the community, students and 4) provide support for child abuse professionals in the region through promoting collaboration and providing training and guidance to advance child abuse knowledge as well as promote the interagency/multidisciplinary response to child abuse.

About East Carolina University

To be a national model for student success, public service and regional transformation, East Carolina University uses innovative learning strategies and delivery methods to maximize access; prepares students with the knowledge, skills and values to succeed in a global, multicultural society; develops tomorrow's leaders to serve and inspire positive change; discovers new knowledge and innovations to support a thriving future for eastern North Carolina and beyond; transforms health care, promotes wellness, and reduces health disparities; and improves qualify of life through cultural enrichment, academics, the arts, and athletics. We accomplish our mission through education, research, creative activities, and service while being good stewards of the resources entrusted to us. East Carolina University delivers on the promise of opportunity. We open doors. We improve lives. We transform the present, and we discover the future. In these ways and more, we serve our community, our state, our nation and our world as together we reach toward our greatest potential. Tomorrow starts here.

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