Healthy Families Family Support Specialist

Healthy Families Family Support Specialist

Help Others, Make a Difference, Save a Life.

Do you want to make a difference in people's lives every day?
Or help people navigate the tough spots in their life?
And do it all while working where your hard work is appreciated?

You have a lot of choices in where you work…make the decision to work where you are valued!

Join the McNabb Center Team as the Healthy Families Family Support Worker program today!

The Healthy Families Family Support Worker

• Healthy Families East Tennessee is a free and voluntary, intensive, home-visitation program that offers support services and resource linkage to new and expecting parents.
• Healthy Families East Tennessee is affiliated and accredited by Healthy Families America, which is the nationally accredited, evidence based, home visitation model adopted by Prevent Child Abuse America.
• The Healthy Families model is relationship based and focuses on the parent child interaction, strengths of the family, and reducing stressors known to increase the incidence of child abuse and neglect.
• The Family Support Specialist (FSS) is responsible for initiating and maintaining regular and long-term (up to three or five years) contact and support with families.
• This activity will occur primarily within the family's home; each visit should last for at least one hour.
• The FSS ensures the quality of home visiting services helps families achieve core Healthy Families America model quality, fidelity, and success for each family.
• The interventions should be family-centered, strength-based, and directed at establishing a trusting relationship; strengthening the parent-child relationship; promoting healthy childhood growth and development; and enhancing family well-being by reducing risk and building protective factors.
• The FSS partners with families and honors diverse family structures and parenting practices.
• Activities may also include but are not limited to: administering the Family Resilience and Opportunities for Growth Scale (FROG) Scale; administering screening tools such as the ASQ, ASQ-SE, Depression Screens etc.; identifying and referring families for other supportive services, including health care services.
• The FSS will also be responsible for assisting the family in establishing goals and supporting them throughout this process and is responsible for implementing activities outlined on the Family Service Plan.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; and employee will also perform other reasonably related job responsibilities as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required. This organization reserves the right to revise or change job duties as the need arises. Moreover, management reserves the right to change job descriptions, job duties, or working schedules based on their duty to accommodate individuals with disabilities.

This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

Schedule:

• Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm

Travel
:

• Must be able to utilize a dependable vehicle for home visitation services.

Equipment/Technology
:

• Basic computer skills are required for email, timekeeping, and documentation in the electronic medical record.

QUALIFICATIONS - Healthy Families Family Support Worker

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Child and Family Studies, Psychology, or related field preferred.
• High school diploma and lived experience required if not Bachelor's Qualified.

Experience / Knowledge
:

• One year experience providing evidence-based home visiting services preferred.
• Experience working with young children and families required.
• Required to achieve AIMHITN Infant Mental Health Endorsement within the first two years of employment if hired without endorsement.
• Training and knowledge in infant and early child development and parenting skills required.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must have excellent communication skills with colleagues and clients.
• Ability to build quality and caring relationships with clients where clients feel supported and heard.
• Maintain a trauma-informed approach when serving families.
• Maintain appropriate boundaries with clients and colleagues.
• Willingness…