Prevention Home Visiting Family Support Specialist

We value our Hope Members . The pay needs to be right and relevant to the position . We conduct regular compensation a nalysis to reward our team fairly .

Work and life balance is important to us ! Our Hope Members enjoy 10 holidays, up to 20 vacation days, 6 personal days, 5 sick days, and new to this year…1 mental health day.

Our package is robust with Allied Insurance ( m edical, d ental , v ision ) , 403b Retirement – 2% Contribution, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account, Short-Term and Long-Term D isability options , Life Insurance, and Pet Insurance.

We want Hope Members to learn and grow . We offer up to $2,500 annually in tui tion reimbursement. OHU support s educatio n al endeavors .

Our Hope Members strive for excellence in children and youth services. OHU supports them by providing opportunities to network and learn from leaders in the field at in-service days, conferences, and workshops.

We have a growth mindset. The OHU Promise is guiding us in significantly increasing services over the next six years. When a new or current position opens, we look first to advancing a Hope Member.

Position:Prevention Home Visiting Family Support Specialist - $2,000 Sign on Bonus

Location: Busy Bee

Job :1660

# of Openings:1

Prevention Home Visiting Family Support Specialist

At OHU, our Hope Members are the heartbeat of our organization. Together, we have built a culture of support, trust, and care.

** This position comes with a $2,000 sign on bonus!**
Culture of Care
The ELCD program at OHU is known for its closely-knit teams who often work together for years at a time! The team members join their shared love of educating young children towards creating a warm and positive working environment. New employees who come from a corporate environment quickly fall in love with the atmosphere at an OHU child development center!

“We are such an inclusive organization, we don’t turn anybody away. Everybody is welcome. Working here, I feel like family. I’ve never felt so appreciated working in a place before. They really take care of you here, listen to your concerns and act on them. It’s just amazing! And it’s really easy to make it amazing when the people you work with are amazing.”

- Shari Conley, Joliet Early Learning Center (Joliet, IL)

What you would be doing:

Enrollment and Recruitment

• Recruits and enrolls families into the Home Visiting programs by a variety of engagement methods including telephone, texting, letter writing and home visits
• Maintains enrollment throughout the program year through various recruitment strategies; and ensures vacancies are filled immediately
• Responsible for maintaining program case load as determined by the grant requirements

• Maintains a caseload according to program model and/or funder specific standards, providing home visits, to families specific to program and/or funder requirements
• Establishes trusting, nurturing relationships with parents and their children by providing family support services in the family’s home
• Ability to provide crisis intervention services to families based upon need
• Organizes and facilitates parent groups including prenatal groups per grant requirements
• Works jointly with parents to develop and implement home visit plans based on identified family and child strengths and needs
• Provides evidence/research-based information to families on a variety of topics including but not limited to home safety, child development, and the importance of medical and dental care
• Observes, assesses, and documents each child’s health, skills, behavior, growth, and developmental milestones
• Provides children and parents with group Socialization experiences per program requirements
• Provides…