Family Home Visitor - Healthy Families Program

SEEKING: We are seeking a 40 hour per week Family Home Visitor, for our Healthy Families Program. This position is based out of the Pittsfield office with travel throughout Berkshire County.

The Healthy Families Program provides parent education and support to young parents with young children through home visiting, parent child groups, and parent support groups. Program components include parenting support, parent skill development, child development education, health/wellness education and referrals to agencies and services. Home visitors assist with the development of family goals, support parents to achieve goals, promote healthy outcomes of pregnancy, reduce child abuse and prevent developmental delays in children.

Services are inclusive of the family unit (including fathers/partners) and promote family stability. Also includes data collection, program evaluation, and advocacy. Works as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.

Healthy Families Program Director

The Family Home Visitor will conduct weekly or bi-weekly home visits to young parents throughout Berkshire County to provide pregnancy and parenting support and education. Home visits take place throughout Berkshire County.

• Providing parent education through individual home visits using parent education curriculum and providing strength-based support to young parent families.
• Documenting accurately, legibly, and succinctly participant contacts, including inputting information in a web-based database.
• Maintaining participant charts and all required written and electronic documentation.
• Assisting with planning and facilitating parent education and parent/child groups.
• Advocating for young parents and their needs and making referrals to other services as needed.
• Providing a variety of support to young families including, but not limited to, parenting skill development, health education, nutrition counseling, pregnancy/labor and delivery education, breast feeding support, stress management, assessment of home safety.
• Partnering with program supervisor to participate in weekly reflective supervision. Willingness to engage in building reflective capacity (e.g. capacity for introspection, communicating awareness of self in relation to others, recognizing value of supervision, etc.).
• Assisting with the gathering of data and other information as required by funding sources and the lead agency.