Healthy Specialist

Healthysteps Specialist

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…