Elements and Performance Criteria
- Engage with families to determine relationship issues
- Support relationship building
- Model positive parenting and interactions with children
- Demonstrate use of play techniques for interacting with child/and or young person
- Model cooperation, negotiation and assertion skills to resolve relationship conflict
- Encourage the child and/or young person to interact with the parent through role modelling and demonstration of appropriate behaviour
- Provide feedback and positive affirmations to support families in relationship building
- Activate referrals
- Respond to inappropriate parental behaviour
- Debrief the residential parent and non residential parent
- Debrief the child and/or young person
- Be diplomatic in responses to inappropriate behaviour. Direct conversations to parents appropriate responsibilities
- Be aware of the relationship issues between the parents and refer where necessary
- Respond to any issues of a legal nature according to organisation policy and legislative requirements
- Discuss with the parents the ramifications if behaviours have breached the Service Level Agreement