Family Navigator
Job in
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, 74145, USA
Listing for:
Tulsa Health Department
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-02-24
Job specializations:
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Child Care/Nanny
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Healthcare
Community Health
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 80000 - 100000 USD Yearly
USD
80000.00
100000.00
YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Background Information
Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa (BEST) represents an exciting opportunity for Tulsa. BEST is a comprehensive, continuous and integrated approach that focuses on families to help break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. This strategy knits together programs and services to create a seamless continuum of support. Programs, services, community agencies and philanthropies are partnering with Tulsa’s families to build a cycle of opportunity.
Position
Summary
The Family Navigator plays a key role in advancing the goals of BEST and realizing the potential of the strategy for children and families. Family Navigator provide personalized, ongoing support to connect families to desired programs and services and share information about how families can support their young child’s brain development. Together with other BEST implementing partners, the Family Navigator will impact thousands of children across the county and country, as other communities draw from and replicate the model.
In the initial stage of navigation, the Family Navigator manages a monthly caseload and is primarily responsible for contacting pregnant women recently enrolled in Sooner Care to promote awareness of and enrollment in, prenatal and postpartum home visitation services and early childhood programs and services. The Family Navigator engages expectant mothers, parents and caregivers, develops trusting relationships, and ensures that parents and children are connected to relevant and appropriate resources.
As BEST grows, Family Navigators will have the opportunity to support parents and caregivers at later phases along the birth through age eight continuum. The following functions represent the majority of the duties performed by the position. The description is not meant to be all-inclusive or prevent other duties from being assigned when necessary.
Essential Job Functions
Create a trusting, comfortable, and inclusive environment that fosters partnership and continual engagement with expectant mothers, parents and other caregivers from all backgrounds through ongoing contact.Triage community referrals and Medicaid/Medicare recipients by connecting to appropriate home visitation program, social worker, case manager, and/or other social and health related community agencies, based on client needs and program eligibility criteria.Promote and ensure smooth connections, based on the desires and needs of expectant mothers, parents and caregivers, to home visitation and other programs that serve maternal and early childhood populations (including but not limited to Children First, Positive Parenting, Parents as Teachers, Safe Care, Learning at Home, Healthy Start, Sooner Start).Educate expectant mothers, parents, and caregivers about prenatal and postpartum supports, early childhood brain development, as well as strategies, programs and services to support a young child’s development.Refer low‑income expectant mothers, parents and caregivers, and children in Tulsa County to medical, education, and social service providers.Support management of community partner relationships by coordinating referrals to outreach programs and identifying new opportunities to partner.Attend regular peer group meetings for networking and information sharing for optimal care management and navigation.Keep current with community resources, relevant training related to early childhood development, protective factors, collective impact, cultural awareness, health related social needs, etc.Serve as a liaison to a variety of community agencies and networks.Assist and collaborate with the Community Connector, and other pertinent staff, in regard to home visitation and referral linkage.Coordinate and collaborate, with BEST, in the development, implementation, and execution of special initiatives aimed at improving program outcomes.Maintain complete and accurate documentation of all activities and reports through computerized entry in accordance with program standard, guidelines, and THD requirements.Attend required training in support of duties and responsibilities of this position.Other duties as assigned including those…
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