SpecialistHealthy Brooklyn Spanish andor Creole Speaking

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We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Specialist-Healthy Steps
- Brooklyn
- Spanish and/or Creole Speaking Required.

In this role, the successful candidate Working in collaboration with the Pediatric care team, the bilingual Child Development Specialist provides support for families and children. The Child Development Specialist provides support to facilitate healthy development, self-regulation skills, and family resiliency. In addition, the Child Development Specialist will conduct child development assessments and provide child development guidance to parents and other primary care givers at well child visits with the goal of facilitating children's healthy growth and development.

The Child Development Specialist works primarily in Pediatrics and collaborates to deliver a new model of care that screens children and their families and connects them with specialized services early on.

• Conducts office visits and developmental screenings in collaboration with the pediatric care team.
• Works closely with the pediatric team as a resource for developmental and parenting concerns.
• Facilitates parents/caregivers education and mental wellness groups.
• Participates in reflective supervision meetings.
• Provides anticipatory guidance to parents and other primary caregivers around common concerns such as early learning, fussiness, sleep, feeding, discipline, etc.
• Documents all patient activity and care coordination in patient record and other appropriate data systems.
• Provides referrals and tracks follow-up, as appropriate, to help families make connections to services when a delay or concern is identified.
• Works closely with the pediatric providers around care coordination, goal setting, counseling, coaching and education about key aspect of a child's development.

• To qualify you must have a Bachelors' degree required.
• Minimum 2 years' of experience with parenting, child development, social work or human service work.
• English proficiency (speaking and writing) required.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association is required at the time of hire and is required to be maintained.
• English proficiency (speaking and writing) required. Depending on the work site, a bilingual language requirement will be required.
• One of the following languages will be required:
  Spanish or Mandarin or Haitian Creole fluency required; written Spanish or Mandarin or Haitian Creole proficiency a big plus.

• Strong preference given to licensed and currently registered to practice nursing, psychology, counseling, or social work in New York State.
• Excellent oral and written…