Healthy Families Lower Shore Family Support Specialist

Job Overview

The Home Visitor position is responsible for initiating and maintaining regular (at least weekly) and long-term (up to five years) contact/support with families. This will occur primarily in the family's home and be intensive (each visit should last for approximately one hour). The intervention will be family-centered and strength-based; and directed at establishing a trusting relationship, assisting in strengthening the parent-child relationship, assisting parents in improving their skills to optimize the home environment, and increasing the family's ability to solve problems.

Activities also include identifying and referring to other agencies. This position is responsible for assisting the family in establishing goals and a plan for accomplishment of those goals, as well as screening the normal growth and development of the target child.

Bilingual Preferred.

Key responsibilities include:

• Initiating and maintaining regular (at least weekly) and long-term (up to five years) contact/support with families.
• Conducting visits primarily in the family's home, each lasting approximately one hour.
• Providing family-centered, strength-based interventions to establish a trusting relationship.
• Assisting in strengthening the parent-child relationship and improving parents' skills to optimize the home environment.
• Increasing the family's ability to solve problems.
• Identifying and referring families to other agencies.
• Assisting the family in establishing goals and a plan for achievement of those goals.
• Screening normal growth and development of the target child.

Education and

Work Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Maturity and experience in successfully working with children (0-5 years of age) and their families.
• Experience in working with or providing services to culturally and socio-economically diverse communities and families.

• Maintains and carries a cellular phone as available and appropriate.
• Uses a private car for work purposes: must have a reliable vehicle, valid driver's license, private insurance, and good driving record as per agency policy.
• Basic knowledge and experience of infant and child development and guiding parents on child development concepts, child health, safety, and nutrition; working effectively with different adults' learning styles.
• Solid skills in effectively communicating with and establishing relationships with people.
• Sound ability to respond to stressful family and office situations in a professional manner.
• Familiarity and ability to efficiently link families with appropriate community resources/services.
• Sound ability to observe and report accurately on the functioning of individuals and families.
• Training in strength-based, family-centered service models.
• Ability to establish trusting relationships.
• Acceptance of individual differences.
• Willingness to engage in building reflective capacity.

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit for long periods of time, keyboard, bend, and lift up to 10 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

• Job Types: Full-time, Part-time.
• Pay: $15.00 - $17.00 per hour.
• Work Location:
  
  In person.

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance