Healthy Specialist

Description

Job Description:

Utah Valley Pediatrics is seeking a full-time Healthy Steps Specialist to join our pediatric primary care team. This position is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Certified Social Worker (CSW) who will bring early childhood development expertise directly into well-child visits, helping our youngest patients (ages 0–3) and their families thrive.

Healthy Steps is a program of 0 to 3 that integrates a child development expert into the pediatric care team to provide interventions, referrals, and follow-up for families with young children. The Healthy Steps Specialist builds strong relationships with families and providers, increasing the efficiency of the medical system and supporting team-based, comprehensive care. Learn more .

This is a rewarding opportunity for a social worker who wants to make a meaningful, measurable impact on early childhood development within a collaborative, team-based medical setting.

Job Specifics:

• Application requirements:
  Please upload a current resume that includes your work history and relevant licenses or certifications.
• Benefits Eligible:
  Yes
• FTE:
  Full-time
• Shift: Monday to Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm
• Location:
  
  716 West 800 North, #3000 Orem, Utah. This is an in-person role.

Key Responsibilities:

Preventative and Responsive Care

• Promotes Healthy Steps within the practice to families and providers.
• 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 short-term consultations for needs regarding development and/or behavioral concerns such as sleep, positive parenting, and picky eating.
• Maintains a family support line and responds to and tracks call requests within the designated response time.
• Participates in reflective supervision meetings.
• May facilitate parent/caregiver groups.

Referrals and Community Collaboration

• Creates and maintains a community resource directory/database; provides referrals and tracks follow-up to help families connect successfully with community resources.
• Builds relationships with community providers to support referrals, warm hand-offs, and appropriate referral criteria.
• Participates, as appropriate, in community-wide early childhood and/or mental health meetings.

Team-Based Care

• Serves as an active member of the Healthy Steps Implementation Team and attends regular team meetings.
• Coordinates with front office staff to align scheduling with provider well-child visits.
• Works closely with pediatric primary care providers on care coordination, goal setting, coaching, and education about key aspects of child development.
• Maintains open communication with all members of the primary care team.
• Provides consultation and/or facilitates training to medical professionals and practice staff on early childhood development, early relational health/infant mental health, and trauma-informed practice.

Caseload Tracking, Documentation, and Reporting

• Documents all patient clinical activity and care coordination in the EHR.
• Maintains databases required to meet Healthy Steps fidelity metrics, including internal and external referrals.
• Tracks caseload to ensure capacity to deliver services within the risk-stratified service delivery model, including monitoring exit criteria and escalating families to higher levels of care as needed.

Professional Development

• Participates in Healthy Steps training (Virtual Healthy Steps Institute), annual model refresher courses, and other trainings as needed.
• Participates in administrative and clinical/reflective supervision meetings.
• Completes the Healthy Steps Competency-Based Professional Development Assessment and maintains an annually updated professional development plan.

Requirements

Essential Skills and Attributes:

• Current licensure in the State of Utah as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Certified Social Worker (CSW).
• Master's Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, or a related field.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Commitment to working with underserved populations in a community setting.
• Empathic, supportive, and patient approach with families.
• Strong motivational interviewing skills.
• Ability to work effectively with people of many backgrounds and cultures.
• Ability to take initiative, with a strong willingness to learn.
• Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team.
• Comfort with an open-door policy, frequent interruptions, and warm hand-offs.
• Flexibility to move between playful, hands-on time with young patients and clear, professional communication with medical colleagues.
• Comfort working as the sole behavioral health professional on-site.
• Professional confidence and assertiveness with providers and colleagues.
• Reflectiveness, insight, and curiosity about oneself.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion
• Commitment to the mission, values, and vision of Utah Valley Pediatrics

Preferred…