Family Support Worker

• Provides support work services to families who accept HFI, offering ongoing home visitation services
• Develops an Individual Family Service Plan for each family, identifying family strengths and needs through collaborative discussions with family
• Identifies goals for family for parent(s') growth and development as well as for child's overall health and development
• Reviews IFSP every six months, assessing outcomes of goals and revising goals as necessary to reflect family needs
• Provides weekly home visits, giving educational materials regarding infant care, safety, parenting, overall health and development of child from HFI curriculum
• Prepares educational materials that are commensurate with family's language, educational level, and learning style
• Offers supportive counseling to adolescent parents, linking with appropriate community agencies when needed
• Promotes positive parent-child interactions
• Administers Ages and Stages Developmental screenings on child and determined intervals
• Augments program curriculum to meet individual families' needs
• Maintains appropriate documentation
• Keeps written documentation of all client contacts on appropriate forms
• Enters data, client contacts, case notes, referral information, and baby's medical data into Cornerstone computer system
• Organizes each client file with appropriate documentation (intake/discharge forms, consents, case notes, home visitation records, developmental screenings, referral data, etc.)
• Provides case management services to families within target population
• Identifies medical home for both mother and baby
• Provides community referrals, offering linkage, advocacy, and/or translation as necessary to ensure access to needed services (WIC, Public Aid, education, recreation, counseling, etc.)
• Collaborates with hospital departments to ensure family receiving all appropriate and needed services

• Bachelor's degree in human services related field or equivalent (4 years or more in comparable social service position)
• Interest in working with teen parents and infants/toddlers
• Interest in providing home-based services
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to learn to learn about and work with community agencies
• Ability to learn to work with appropriate developmental education materials for infants/toddlers (up to age 5)
• Bilingual in Spanish/English highly preferred

Bilingual in Spanish/English

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
• Incentive pay for select positions