HealthySteps Specialist (Bilingual English & Spanish)

About the Role

The Primary role of the HealthySteps Specialist is to function in a pediatric or family practice clinic as part of the interdisciplinary team. Responsibilities include team-based well-child visits, comprehensive assessment of a child (developmental, social-emotional, behavioral, mental, family protective and risk factors, and social determinants of health) using evidence-based screenings, provision of therapeutic clinical interventions, connecting families to community resources, care coordination, psycho-social support, and positive parenting interventions.

Responsibilities

• Enroll new families into the HealthySteps program, targeting patients birth through age 3.
• Determine tier-based services after a comprehensive assessment of a child’s development, social-emotional, behavioral, and mental wellbeing at recommended intervals with evidence-based screenings.
• Meet with families at well-child visits with the physician/pediatric nurse practitioner or independently, including individualized clinical interventions to address mental, emotional, behavioral, social, and developmental difficulties with an emphasis on child and family strengths.
• Collaborate with healthcare team members to restore patient to optimum biopsychosocial functioning through therapeutic clinical skills, case management, advocacy, and information and referral.
• Provide case management and care coordination, including identifying quality resources, referrals, and follow-up to foster community connections.
• Facilitate or lead caregiver groups, staff resource fairs, or other community events targeted at early childhood and young families.
• Provide education and information to the interdisciplinary team on infant mental health best practices.
• Utilize the Child Development Telephone Information Line for parenting advice and to coordinate parent communication and relationships.
• Support the clinic with the Reach Out and Read program (where applicable).
• Provide child behavioral and developmental information, guidance, and checkups for families to develop confidence in their caregiving abilities.
• Establish and nurture collaborative relationships among caregivers, medical staff, and the HealthySteps team.
• Complete professional development related to services provided for children birth through 3 and their families.
• Engage in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives with supervisor and clinic implementation team to ensure HealthySteps model fidelity.
• Participate in monthly individual and/or group reflective consultations provided by the HealthySteps program.
• Demonstrate the agency’s values and support the vision and mission of the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Early childhood and child development, pediatric clinical setting, infant mental health counseling, or similar experience.
• Bilingual in English & Spanish.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree (will consider 24 months of equivalent experience in lieu of a Master’s degree).
• Knowledge of and experience assessing the growth and development of infants and young children, parent-child relationships, child health, and family systems.
• Demonstrated ability to work on an interdisciplinary team and in a peer relationship with a medical provider or in a medical setting.
• Capacity to be reflective about work and roles, and ability to work independently.
• Understanding and honoring the values of integrity, collaboration, flexibility, growth/learning, and compassion.

Pay

$55,000 - $57,000