Home Visitor-Healthy Families

Home Visitor Position Overview

The Healthy Families Massachusetts Home Visitor is a member of the Bridges Homeward Team, using a strengths‑based, skill‑building framework to support families. The role includes engaging parents, children, and extended family members in in‑home and group settings to promote healthy development and resilience.

• Provides parenting education and support in-home and in group settings.
• Reduces violent, impulsive, and risky behaviors among adolescent parents.
• Promotes safe and healthy homes.
• Improves family self‑sufficiency while supporting the most vulnerable families.
• Utilizes the Protective Factors Framework to deliver in‑home services, increasing family resiliencies, resources, and support systems.
• Organizes and manages a caseload of families and children referred to Healthy Families Massachusetts.
• Collaborates with parents, children, community resources, and HFM staff to develop plans, specify resources and services needed, make referrals, and monitor service provision.
• Maintains regular contact with collaborating partners.
• Provides conflict resolution and mediation for families.
• Monitors the safety of children in the home.
• Maintains complete, detailed, and accurate records.
• Helps support or present information alone or with other team members at parenting workshops.

• High School Diploma.
• Minimum one year of experience providing case management and/or counseling services to children, adolescents, and families; preference given to those with experience working with pregnant or parenting teens or young adults.
• Lived parenting experience preferred.
• Bilingual required; candidates must speak English and at least one of the following languages:
  Spanish, Portuguese, or Haitian Creole.
• Ability to establish trusting relationships with program participants.
• Experience and humility to work with the culturally diverse families in our catchment area and demonstrated acceptance of individual differences.
• Knowledge of infant and child development.
• Willingness to engage in building reflective capacity.
• Infant mental health endorsement preferred.

• Valid driver’s license and car.

CORI/SORI/Fingerprinting required.

Salary: $41,500 – $43,000 per year.