Family Support Specialist
TN Voices
- Salary
- $44k
- Location
- Goodlettsville, Tennessee, United States
- Job type
- Full-time
Required skills
- communication skills
- service delivery
- time management
About the role
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Provides intensive, long-term home visiting services to parents according to Healthy Families of America (HFA) and Healthy Families Tennessee (HFT) guidelines
- Conduct family assessments and screenings, develop individual family service plans and provide brief interventions, solicit community referrals, advocate on behalf of families and follow-up as needed
- Prepares and implements individualized curriculum from available materials focusing on parent health and wellness, child health and development, positive parenting skills, educational and vocational achievement, and life skills
- Provides supportive services to participants, while also increasingly encouraging families to utilize more informal and community resources
- Maintains flexibility in order to schedule home visits at times that are convenient for the family
- Conducts outreach and regularly participate in engagement activities
- Maintains regular and reliable attendance while accurately recording and managing time keeping records to ensure seamless operations and contributions to team productivity
- Upholds and promotes the organization’s values, mission and ethical standards in all interactions and decision-making processes to foster and a positive and principled workplace culture
- Maintains an overall home visiting caseload as determined by HFT and contract guidelines
- Acquires and maintains Infant Mental Health Endorsement
- Keeps all documentation up-to-date and accurate, including electronic web-based records and paper records
- As a member of the team, plans, develops, and implements groups/activities/events at times that work best for program participants
- Participate in weekly reflective supervision, staff meetings, trainings, program evaluation activities, and workshops
- Assists with child abuse prevention month activities
- Participates in major fundraising events benefiting TNV, community awareness events that promote the agency and programs, and program activities of the organization no matter the individual role
- Represents the agency at community, civic or other public functions and attend quarterly site visits
- Participates in agency ad-hoc committees as appropriate and needed
- Perform additional duties as assigned by the supervisor or leadership.
- Experience working with or providing supportive services to young children and families
- Experience and humility to work with a culturally diverse population; Demonstrated acceptance of individual differences and practice of inclusion
- Ability to establish trusting relationships and utilize basic supportive skills
- Ability to approach families from a strengths-based and family-centered service model
- Knowledge of infant and child development and parent-child attachment principles
- Awareness of the needs of low-income and multi-stressed families
- Ability to learn and integrate new concepts into teaching/coaching, material related to service delivery
- Willingness to engage in building reflective capacity (e.g., capacity for introspection, communicating awareness of self in relation to others, recognizing value of supervision, etc.)
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries while providing supportive services
- Willingness to work non-standard business hours as needed and scheduled
- Ability to be a self starter and practice effective time management, and work without close supervision
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate as part of a team
- Microsoft Office, email, internet; Must be able to meet documentation requirements
- Minimum of a High School diploma
About TN Voices
Providing mental health support and advocacy for Tennessee families.
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