Family Support Specialist - Psych Child Ambulatory

Position Description
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is a nationally recognized and award-winning public healthcare system. The Harvard-affiliated CHA Department of Psychiatry is recognized as a leader in patient care, teaching and research. As a leader in behavioral health, CHA's psychiatry teams provide

Location
: CHA Teen Connection at SHS

Category
:
Human and Social Services

Department
:
Psych - Child Ambulatory

Job Type
:
Part Time

Union Name
:
Non Union

Work Schedule:

Day

Length Of Shift(s) In

Hours:

4-8

Shift Details: 8am-4pm

Hours/Week: 10.00

Weekend Requirements:
No

Holiday Requirements:
No

On Call Requirements:
No

Position Description
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is a nationally recognized and award-winning public healthcare system. The Harvard-affiliated CHA Department of Psychiatry is recognized as a leader in patient care, teaching and research. As a leader in behavioral health, CHA's psychiatry teams provide
compassionate care to our diverse patient population. CHA consists of an established network of ambulatory clinics, an urgent care site, and two full service hospitals based in Cambridge-Somerville, and Boston's metro-north communities

Summary
The Family Support Specialist (FSS) brings a key family perspective to clinical teams providing School Based Urgent Care.

In that context, they can help “translate” between the professional culture and the family’s culture, building trust and facilitating critical information sharing.

That two-way process, clarifying communication about symptoms, diagnoses and treatment planning, enhances engagement between parents and clinicians, so that children and youth are more likely to receive needed mental health services.

Other Information

• Work Experience:
  
  Experience as a parent or caregiver of a child with special health care needs — important for other parents to know the FSS person has “been there,” and “can understand what families go through”
• Prior experience advocating for families beside their own, learning when and how to share their own stories as examples, and how to collaborate with clinicians and/or other professionals
• Ability to represent “family voice” on the clinical team when interventions are being discussed, but, also, at a leadership level, if asked. For example, capacity to represent the family perspective regarding such things as development of useful resource materials for clinic families, or strategies for health promotion in the community
• Positive interpersonal presence as a team member
• Bi-cultural and bi-lingual preferred, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian-Creole
• Position is hybrid, in person hours at Somerville High School Teen Health Center

Please note that the final offer may vary within the listed Pay Range, based on a candidate's experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

In keeping with federal, state and local laws, Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) policy forbids employees and associates to discriminate against anyone based on race, religion, color, gender, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to establishing and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination. We are fully committed to equal employment opportunity.

We will not tolerate unlawful discrimination in the recruitment, hiring, termination, promotion, salary treatment or any other condition of employment or career development. Furthermore, we will not tolerate the use of discriminatory slurs, or other remarks, jokes or conduct, that in the judgment of CHA, encourage or permit an offensive or hostile work environment.