HMG Family Support Specialist
Job description
We are seeking a Help Me Grow Family Support Specialist (Home Visitor) !!
Franklin County
Integrated Services for Behavioral Health (ISBH) is a community-minded, forward-thinking behavioral health organization helping people along the road to health and well-being. We meet people in their homes and communities and help connect them to the resources they need. We serve Southeastern and Central Ohio with a comprehensive array of behavioral health and other services – working with local partners to promote healthy people and strong communities. All of our services are intended to be collaborative and personalized for the individual.
Essential Functions:
- Initiates and maintains regular and long-term (up to three years) contact/support with families. This activity will occur primarily within the family’s home; each visit should last for at least one hour. The interventions should be family-centered, strength-based, and directed at: establishing a trusting relationship; assisting in strengthening the parent-child relationship; assisting parents in improving their skills to optimize the home environment; improving the family support system; and increasing the family’s ability to problem solve and assume the role of advocate for themselves and their children. The activities may also include identifying and referring for contact/appointments at other supportive agencies, including health care appointments.
- Assists the family in establishing goals and a plan for accomplishment of those goals, as well as the assessment of the normal growth and development of the target child.
- Maintains necessary documentation, participates in program evaluation, attends team and program planning meetings, cross-systems training, and acquires knowledge of community resources.
- Meets billing productivity requirements established by Integrated Services for Behavioral Health.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements:
- Experience in working with or providing services to children and their families
- Associates degree required
- Ability to establish trusting relationships
- Acceptance of individual differences
- Experience and willingness to work with the culturally diverse populations present among the site’s target population
- Knowledge of infant and child development
- Open to reflective practice
- Infant mental health endorsement preferred
- Minimum three years of directly relevant experience
- Demonstrated high degree of cultural awareness
- Experience with multi-need individuals and families
- Broad knowledge of community service systems
- Licensed and able to operate a motor vehicle with appropriate level of insurance coverage
- Willing to participate in and lead cross-systems team building activities
- Able to effectively communicate through verbal/written expression
- Must be able to operate in an Internet-based, automated office environment
Enjoy a great work environment with excellent salary, generous paid time off, and a strong benefits package.
Benefits include:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Short-term Disability
- Long-term Disability
- 401K w/ Employer Match
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provides support and resources to help you, and your family, with a range of issues, including:
- Managing stress, anxiety and depression
- Improving relationships at home or work
- Getting guidance on legal and financial concerns
- Coping with occupational stress and burnout support
- Addressing substance use issue
To learn more about our organization: https://integratedservice.org/
OUR VISION
Healthy people. Strong communities.
OUR MISSION
We improve the behavioral health and well-being of Ohioans and their communities.
OUR EXTENDED MISSION
We improve the behavioral health and well-being of Ohioans and their communities through entrepreneurial approaches to behavioral health services, safe housing, productive partnerships and other community development efforts.
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