Prevention Home Visiting Family Support Specialist - $2,000 Sign on Bonus

This position comes with a $2,000 sign-on bonus.

About the role

At OHU, our Hope Members are the heartbeat of our organization. Together, we have built a culture of support, trust, and care. The ELCD program at OHU is known for its closely-knit teams who often work together for years at a time. Team members share a love of educating young children, creating a warm and positive working environment. New employees who come from a corporate environment quickly fall in love with the atmosphere at an OHU child development center.

“We are such an inclusive organization, we don’t turn anybody away. Everybody is welcome. Working here, I feel like family. I’ve never felt so appreciated working in a place before. They really take care of you here, listen to your concerns and act on them. It’s just amazing! And it’s really easy to make it amazing when the people you work with are amazing.”

Shari Conley, Joliet Early Learning Center (Joliet, IL)

Responsibilities

• Enrollment and Recruitment
  • Recruits and enrolls families into the Home Visiting programs by a variety of engagement methods including telephone, texting, letter writing, and home visits
  • Maintains enrollment throughout the program year through various recruitment strategies; ensures vacancies are filled immediately
  • Responsible for maintaining program caseload as determined by the grant requirements
• Family Relations
  • Maintains a caseload according to program model and/or funder-specific standards, providing home visits to families specific to program and/or funder requirements
  • Establishes trusting, nurturing relationships with parents and their children by providing family support services in the family’s home
  • Provides crisis intervention services to families based upon need
  • Organizes and facilitates parent groups including prenatal groups per grant requirements
  • Works jointly with parents to develop and implement home visit plans based on identified family and child strengths and needs
  • Provides evidence/research-based information to families on a variety of topics including but not limited to home safety, child development, and the importance of medical and dental care
  • Observes, assesses, and documents each child’s health, skills, behavior, growth, and developmental milestones
  • Provides children and parents with group Socialization experiences per program requirements
  • Provides program parents with guidance on home safety, nutrition, effective discipline, constructive play activities, basic child care, crisis management, problem solving, positive relationships, and other related topics
  • Integrates other components (i.e., health, nutrition, mental health, parent involvement, and special needs) into home visit and services provided
  • Assists in identifying children with special needs and makes the necessary referrals
  • Encourages family participation in the program-specific Advisory Committee meetings as well as prenatal and/or parent group, and other meetings, events, and/or trainings
  • Assists families in developing a Family Goal Plan which includes a plan for the accomplishment of the goals
• Professional Development
  • Completes all required program/model-specific trainings no later than 6 months of hire
  • Completes all required supplemental training per model/funder guidelines and timeframes
  • Ongoing and additional training required including but not limited to working with highly stressed families in overburdened communities, issues related to maternal/child health, child abuse, neglect and maltreatment, labor and birth, inductions, cesarean sections, postpartum period/newborn care, breastfeeding, childbirth education, child development of infants and toddlers, CBFANA, and group facilitation
  • Willingness to register, complete the pre-assessment, and receive training within the Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals and certify with the National Family Support Certification within five years of hire
  • A desire to become familiar with infant mental health practice by attending regular team meetings and trainings with the I/ECMH consultant
  • Become certified in CPR, Infant CPR, and First Aid within the first year of hire
  • Collaborates with program supervisor and other agency staff to review and maintain home visiting model affiliation and/or agency accreditation standards including COA Accreditation standards
• Community Outreach
  • Develops and maintains Community Partnership Agreements (MOU)
  • Remains aware of community resources to support the needs of families and makes appropriate referrals
  • Partners with co-workers to maintain program resource file within the office
  • Attends Early Intervention meetings with the families receiving services in order to support developmental and/or social needs of child and family
  • Assists with attending community networking, community outreach, and marketing efforts as required, targeting local community-based resources, including but not limited to food banks, mental health programs, and domestic violence resources
  • Assists and participates in fundraising activities as needed
• Program Administration
  • Maintains and preserves confidential client files
  • Understands the program’s outcome goals and works diligently with the families to pursue positive outcome goals while participating in services
  • Familiarizes and complies with all policies and procedures of the agency, funders, and accreditation bodies
  • Follows established guidelines for use and/or disclosure of protected health information; reports any breaches of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules to their supervisor immediately
  • Organizes and maintains complete, accurate, and up-to-date records for children and families according to program and/or funder requirements including data entry into various databases such as agency, funder, and state. Information to include but not limited to demographics, social and child development screenings, home visit records, goals, outcomes
  • Documentation of case records to be completed within the required time per program
  • Maintains accurate account of daily activities through Outlook scheduler, reporting any changes of schedule to supervisor
  • Participates in regularly scheduled program team meetings, doula clinical meetings, infant mental health meetings, and other agency meetings
  • Participates in regularly scheduled reflective supervision with program supervisor or designee
  • Maintains accurate documentation of time utilizing Paycor or another agency program, submitting every two weeks
  • Maintains accurate documentation of expenses including mileage utilizing Ramp or another agency program
  • Documentation of required program monthly reporting using an End of Month Report or other specified reporting method
  • Willing to work flexible hours, some weekday evenings and weekend (Saturday) hours according to the needs of the program and families which include but are not limited to group connections, end-of-year and holiday celebrations, and home visits
  • Performs other related duties as assigned

Requirements

• High School Diploma required
• Bachelor’s Degree in human services-related field such as childcare, early childhood development, education, social services, nursing, or equivalent work experience with families and children (as required by program and funder) preferred
• Two years' previous supervised work experience working with or providing services to young children and/or parents/families; ideally in home visiting, child welfare, residential care, or community-based setting required
• Knowledge of Lake County resources preferred

Benefits

• Flexible full-time schedule with supportive leadership that accommodates personal needs
• Staff celebrations, including weekly lunches
• Ongoing professional development tailored to your needs and career growth opportunities
• Tuition assistance up to $2,500 per fiscal year
• Up to 4 weeks paid Vacation Days, up to 6 paid Personal Days, 1 paid Mental Health Day, and up to 5 paid Sick days annually
• Medical, dental, vision, 403(b) retirement plan, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, dependent care, commuter, and transit benefits
• Agency-paid Life & ADD insurance up to $50K based on salary and short-term disability
• Agency-paid long-term disability after 1 year of employment
• Voluntary Supplemental Life & ADD, Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital insurance for Employee, Spouse, and Child(ren)
• Voluntary Legal Plans and Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program with 6 free counseling sessions
• Free LCSW and LCPC Supervision hours available in some locations

Pay

$2,000 sign-on bonus.