The Public Health Educator Home Visitor arranges for the availability of services to promote, maintain, or restore health and prevent disease and injury by providing for home visits, implementing the evidence-based home visitation program called Family Foundations Home Visiting (FFHV). The position works throughout the perinatal period to improve birth outcomes; promote child health, safety and development; improve maternal health; and improve service coordination with and referral to other community resources and supports.

Key duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Home Visiting Program

• Provides home visits according to the model; follows the evidence-based Healthy Families America (HFA) model.
• Follows the HFA scheduling protocol. 
• Responds to client needs through flexible scheduling of home visits.
• Provides assessments of and education for mother and baby in the home per model requirements. 
• Utilizes required forms, provides timely and accurate charting and documentation for home visits.
• Enters data into required database(s).
• Utilizes forms for billing purposes, if applicable.
• Utilizes principles and concepts of motivational interviewing, coaching and reflective practice.
• Implements and meets program, grant, and model fidelity requirements.
• Implements quality improvement strategies. 
• Works cooperatively as an active member of the home visiting team by attending team meetings, supervision, staff meetings, and other meetings as required. 

Communicable Disease (CD) Control 

• As needed, provides support for investigations of outbreaks. 
• Collaborates with other division staff for outbreak response.

Other Chronic Disease and injury Prevention

• Ensures linkage of individuals to needed personal health services. 

Emergency Preparedness and Response

• Participates in implementation of response strategies to address public health emergencies. 
• Participates in public health preparedness exercises as appropriate.
• Maintains a general knowledge of the National Incident Management System (ICS 100, 200, 700, 800) and higher-level courses as assigned by Health Officer.

Health Promotion

• Helps with processes for and dissemination of relevant, accurate information and evidence-informed health prevention guidance to the public health system and community.
• Helps implement use of a variety of accessible, transparent, and inclusive methods of communication to convey and to receive information from the public and stakeholders.

Other duties

• Maintains records and privacy (HIPAA and HITECH).
• Answers questions or complaints from the general public.
• Attends meetings and trainings to keep abreast of recent research, concepts, equipment, federal, state, and local requirements, and educational techniques.
• Serves as a member of various health-related community committees, as required.
• Maintains a safe work environment and follows all safety rules and regulations.
• Utilizes various policies and procedures, forms, and tools to perform duties as assigned.
• Works variable weekday and weekend hours according to division/emergency needs.
• Works as part of a team to work toward accomplishing program objectives.
• Utilizes computers for daily work. 
• Inventories, requisitions, orders, and stocks supplies as needed.
• Provides needed backup to the other staff members as directed. 
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervision Received:

Works under the direction of the Home Visiting Supervisor. Employee is expected to perform normal work assignments in accordance with established work procedures and division policies with a minimum amount of supervision.

• Graduate from a college or university of recognized standing with a degree in community health education, social work, or related field. 
• Experience in home visiting or any combination of training and/or experience which provides the required knowledge, duties, responsibilities, and competencies necessary for the position. 
• Current certification in CPR.
• Possession of a valid Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Operator's License.
• Own car and have active personal automobile insurance (mileage reimbursement provided) and have personal vehicle available for daily use.
• COVID-19 Vaccination is required. Proof will be requested. 

Analytical/Assessment Skills: 

• Utilization of evidence-based decision making
• Analytical skills in reaching objective conclusions about home visiting programs
• Adept in using word processing, spreadsheets, and other technological tools

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills: 

• Knowledge of quality improvement processes
• Use of public health evidence for plans, policies, programs, and services

Communication Skills: 

• Written and oral linguistic and cultural proficiency
• Ability to assess literacy of populations served and communicate with a diversity of people
• Ability to prepare and write reports, keep accurate records, summarize information

Cultural Competency Skills: 

• Understanding of concept of diversity and can describe the community served by the division
• Articulates impact of cultural influences on and diversity in program and services

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills: 

• Ability to engage the community
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships, collaborations, and partnerships 
• Consistently demonstrates willingness to engage in teamwork (collaboration, cooperation) and utilize time management skills (prioritization, multi-tasking, flexibility, adaptability) to achieve program and division goals

Public Health Science Skills:

• Understanding of programs, grants, and model requirements for home visitation.
• Educational or experiential background in child development, parent support, home visiting
• Ability to use problem solving and clinical skills that include assessment, goal setting, safety, evaluation, situation management, negotiation, peer collaboration, resource management, time management, and fostering independence.
• Ability to employ humility, sensitivity, professional boundaries, personal limitation knowledge, integrity, self-direction, flexibility, and safety when providing services
• Ability to work with diverse family structures and meet varying needs
• Ability to establish a trusting relationship with families during home visits
• Ability to provide health education
• Ability to provide appropriate referrals and connections to community resources as needed
• Meets requirements and standards of the programs, grants, models, and applicable policies, procedures, and laws

Tools and Equipment Used:
All standard office equipment i.e., computers, modems, printers, copy machine, telephone, fax machine, etc. Other equipment such as baby scale, thermometers, and infant care supplies may be used during a maternal/child home visit.
 
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Worker is exposed to blood, respiratory secretions, and other body fluids for which universal precautions apply. Personal protective equipment is available and shall be worn. Potential exposure to hostile individuals and settings. Physical settings in the community may be unsanitary and potentially dangerous and the employee is occasionally exposed to these conditions. Employee may work near mechanical moving parts, in high/precarious places, in wet and humid conditions, near hot grease and stove flames, and near airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment maybe moderate at times. Personal protective equipment is available and shall be worn.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 
Ability to travel to a variety of locations to evaluate public and environmental health problems and to access facilities and/or sites which may not be handicap accessible.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, or hear. The employee maybe regularly required to walk, bend, stand, squat, twist, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and traverse a variety of ground and structures. The employee is required to use hands and fingers to handle and operate objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms. The employee may have to lift and/or move up to 25-30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, ability to adjust focus, and depth perception.
 
The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.