Healthy Specialist

Description

The Healthy Steps Specialist I (HSSI) is an early child development expert who will join the pediatric primary care team at Hometown Pediatrics to provide interventions, referrals, and follow-up for children and families. Healthy Steps, a program of Zero to Three, promotes nurturing caregiving, which supports families and improves healthy development and well-being of babies and toddlers, preparing them for school and life.

The Healthy Steps Specialist I builds strong relationships with families and providers to increase the efficiency of the medical system and support team-based comprehensive care. The HSSI is responsible for delivering Healthy Steps services to caregivers in a timely and coordinated manner and according to program model parameters. HSSI is responsible for providing child behavior and developmental information, guidance, and checkups to families and for helping caregivers to develop confidence in their parenting abilities.

The HSSI will create a solid relationship between the caregivers and the Healthy Steps team, enhancing communication among providers/family/community partners. The HSSI will promote access to community services and the development of self-management skills among families, while also increasing health promotion activities. The HSSI will be supervised by the Healthy Steps Supervisor.

• Monday-Thursday 8:00-5:30 and Friday from 8:00-12:00

• Promotes Healthy Steps within the practice to families and providers
• Build care relationships among family and team; support the primary caregiving role of the family
• Conducts team-based well-child visits before, during, or following the primary care provider. Visits focus on monitoring development, social-emotional functioning, and relational health, and providing anticipatory guidance
• Conducts consultations on a short-term basis for needs regarding development and/or behavioral concerns such as sleep, positive parenting, picky eating, etc.
• Maintains a child development support line and responds to and tracks call requests within the designated response time
• Identify quality resources and provide referrals and follow-up as appropriate to foster community connections
• Provide care coordination by assessing child/patient and family needs and create ongoing processes for families to determine and request the level of care-coordination support for their child/youth or family member at any given point in time
• Serve as the contact point, advocate, and informational resource for families and community partners
• Facilitate/lead parent groups
• Maintain timely and accurate data entry and reporting;
  Document all patient clinical activity and care coordination in EHR
• Tracks caseload to ensure capacity to deliver the HS services within the risk stratified service delivery model. This includes ensuring exit criteria is met and that families and children are elevated to higher levels of care or referred to community providers if needed
• Assist with the Reach Out and Read program
• Attend training as specified throughout the year
• Participates in reflective supervision meetings with supervisor
• Engages in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives to ensure the Healthy Steps model is delivered with fidelity
• May conduct minimal home visits and may accompany families to key medical, specialty, and community agency appointments as needed
• Be available to serve families in non-traditional work hours if necessary
• Perform other duties as assigned which may be necessary to support the organization during times of critical activity

• Responsible to:
  Directly supervised by the Healthy Steps Supervisor

• None

• Works in cooperation with all staff/providers and effectively serves patients and their families

This is a grants-based program and dependent on availability of funds.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain an exhaustive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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