Family Support Specialist – Josephine County

Wage: $18-$22/hr. DOE

POSITION SUMMARY: The Family Support Specialist promotes positive parent-child relationships, supports healthy childhood growth and development, and enhances family functioning of parents with children from prenatal stages to 3 years of age in Josephine County through home visiting.

DUTIES AND RESPOSIBILITIES:

• Manages caseload of families.
• Performs assessments, charting, and documentation of outcomes.
• Follows program protocols.
• Maintains a confidential file for each child served.
• Assesses the family’s needs and strengths using assessment tools.
• Documents home visits in the Home Visit Record within specified periods.
• Monitors childhood immunizations.
• Provides parent education and support to strengthen the parent-child relationship.
• Provides information on parenting, child development, child safety, and community resources.
• Mentors developmentally appropriate activities for infants and young children.
• Models interactions with infants and young children.
• Works with families to identify their strengths and needs.
• Assists families in developing goals and an individual family support plan.
• Demonstrates the ability to work with individuals who are economically and socially at risk.
• Works with community agencies and staff Community Health Navigator(s) to coordinate case management and resources.
• Attends conferences or available trainings that promote ongoing professional development of Family Support Specialists.
• Attends Outreach Staff meetings and community events.
• Demonstrates a commitment to punctuality and attendance.
• Maintains ethical conduct.
• Demonstrates support of individual differences, culture, and beliefs.
• Bilingual with demonstrated language proficiency in Spanish.

QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION, AND EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Minimum two (2) years of full-time experience working with children and families preferred.
• Proof of current CPR Certification or ability to obtain.
• Proof of valid and unrestricted driver’s license, comprehensive automobile insurance, and a safe driving record.
• Use of private automobile in good, working condition to drive to outlying rural areas in possibly hazardous weather and/or road conditions.
• Proof of current immunizations that meet clinic health and immunization standards.
• Required to submit to pre-employment criminal background investigation.
• Required to submit to pre-employment drug screen.
• Infant Mental Health endorsement preferred.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Ability to establish trusting relationships.
• Experience working as part of a diverse team.
• Can demonstrate general knowledge of Oregon Health Plan (OHP), health insurance, and managed care.
• Can demonstrate general knowledge of child development or early childhood education related to infants and toddlers.
• Acceptance of individual differences.
• Experience and humility to work with culturally diverse families.
• Can demonstrate the ability to make educational presentations on child development and positive family roles and dynamics to individuals, as well as small and large groups.
• Can demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Can demonstrate effective customer relations skills and working with diverse populations, often in stressful environments.
• Can demonstrate strong organizational skills and effective use of time.
• Can demonstrate the ability to navigate and collaborate with social service agencies within the community.
• Experience and ability to engage in building reflective capacity.
• Ability to use a computer, including intermediate-level experience with all Microsoft Office products and the ability to learn and use internal data tracking systems.

TRAINING:

• Ability to travel to multiple required trainings to meet home visiting program certification requirements.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Ability to manage physically active children from newborn to 5 years of age, within a weight range of up to 60 pounds, including guiding, pushing, and withstanding sudden movements.
• Lifting, bending, reaching, pushing, carrying, sitting, and driving an automobile.
• Vision and hearing corrected to within normal range.
• Physical mobility within office, participant’s homes, and/or clinic spaces.

HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS:

• Possible exposure to airborne and blood-borne pathogens and/or hazardous materials.
• Stressful environments.
• Driving in hazardous weather and/or road conditions.
• Entering potentially unsafe or unstable living environments.

WORKING CONDITION:

• Position is 40% in the office, 60% site visits.

MACHINES, EQUIPMENT, TOOLS, AND SUPPLIES USED:

• Computer, printer, calculator, postage machine, fax machine, copier, multi-line phone system, private automobile, and/or cellular phone.

To apply, send resume and cover letter to [email protected].