What are the responsibilities and job description for the Healthy Families Support Specialist position at United Community Action Network?
Full-time, 40 Hours Per Week
FLSA STATUS - Non-Exempt
Healthy Families Support Specialists provide and coordinate home visiting and family support services to high-risk families with children from birth to age 3. You will work in partnership with parents, building trusting, long-term relationships, and connect families with community resources, social service agencies, and health care providers.
Services are designed around the research-based Healthy Families America and Healthy Families Oregon goals: assessing family strengths and needs and referring for additional services, strengthening family functioning, promoting positive parent-child interaction, supporting healthy childhood growth and development, and preparing children for preschool.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Visit families in their homes to teach nurturing parenting skills and positive discipline, reduce family stress, and help parents build problem-solving and coping skills.
- Apply working knowledge of parent-child interaction, child development, and the dynamics of child abuse and neglect.
- Develop individualized family goal plans and administer developmental assessment tools to monitor child development and parent-child interaction.
- Refer families to community agencies, advocate for families, and collaborate with partner agencies.
- Keep accurate, complete, and confidential records, enter data in Healthy Families tracking tools on time, and submit reports to your Supervisor.
- Report and document suspected child abuse and neglect to DHS and your Supervisor within 24 hours.
- Take part in staff meetings, case conferences with your Supervisor, in-service and formal trainings, and community meetings. Represent the program to the public, including presentations as appropriate.
- Work with integrity and commitment to the Healthy Families America model to ensure program fidelity.
- Contribute to a positive, team-oriented culture and complete other duties as assigned.
- Communicate in a professional, respectful and courteous manner with all employees, clients, the Board of Directors, and others with whom we may work.
- Drive a company vehicle in the performance of duties. Driving will be required for travel to client homes, and to perform other essential functions as needed.