1 Bilingual Family Support Specialist (Spanish/English) Job in Tucker, GA
Wellroot Family Services is Hiring a Bilingual Family Support Specialist (Spanish/English) Near Tucker, GA
Reports To: Program Manager
Department: Programs
Location: Metro Atlanta (DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett County)
FLSA: Exempt
Job SummaryThe Family Support Specialist (FSS) is responsible for implementing the Healthy Families America home visiting model, a home-based intervention program with families, infants and children. One of the primary roles of the FSS is to develop strong relationships with families in order to provide service coordination, support, and training to assist families in meeting the needs of their children and enhancing parents’ role as the primary influence on their child’s development. needs of their children and enhancing parents’ role as the primary influence on their child’s development. Duties include working with families to: promoting positive parent-child relationships and interactions, provide child development education and enhance family functioning.
Responsibilities
- Initiates and maintains regular and long-term (up to three years) support and interventions with families which will occur primarily within the family’s home and should last at least an hour.
- The interventions should be family-centered, strength-based, and directed at:
- Establishing a trusting relationship
- Assists in strengthening the parent-child relationship
- Assists parents in improving their skills to optimize the home environment
- Improves the family support system; and increases the family’s ability to problem solve and assume the role of advocate for themselves and their children
- Demonstrating competencies identified for certification as Family Support Specialist and required Policies and Procedures
- Consistently updating knowledge and skills relevant to position responsibilities
- Attending in-services, conferences, workshops, and required agency meetings as appropriate
- Furthers the mission of the organization through active support of the strategic goals
- Bilingual FSS may be responsible for translation
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
- Bilingual and able to read, write, and speak Spanish proficiently
- minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent, college coursework preferred
- experience in working with or providing services to children and their families
- an ability to establish trusting relationships
- acceptance of individual differences
- experience and humility to work with the culturally diverse families
- knowledge of infant and child development
- willing to engage in building reflective capacity (e.g., capacity for introspection, communicating awareness of self in relation to others, recognizing value of supervision, etc.)
- Fast-paced, working with vulnerable clients.
- The ability to maintain a flexible work schedule which will include evenings and weekends is required
- Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds
- Computer Work
- May be subject to imposed deadlines
- May be subject to hostile and emotionally upset clients, staff, family members, or the general public at times
- Possible telehealth and remote work
- Work travel reimbursement for home visitations, work events, job related duties
- Has regular contact with clients and their staff, family members, and the general public
- Work in a variety of settings. Sit, stand, walk, bend, lift, move, squat, climb stairs, reach above shoulder level, kneels, pus, or pull intermittently during working hours.
Job Summary
Full Time
$31k-39k (estimate)
06/16/2024
07/13/2024
wellroot.org
Tucker, GA
<25
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