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Family Support Specialist - Oct/Nov 2024
Begin or continue your Human Service career with Healthy
Families today! The Healthy Families program through CAPCO Family Development
program works with Cortland County Families to provide resources and support to
empower individuals and encourage strong, healthy families. The Family Support
Specialist position works frontline with families initiating contact and
providing the support and resources deemed necessary.
Position: Family
Support Specialist
Program: Healthy
Families component of the Family Development Program
Reports to: Program
Supervisor, Healthy Families
Status: Full-time,
Non-Exempt
Schedule: Monday
through Friday, 8am-4pm for 37.5 hours per week
Starting Wage: $18.00
per hour
Valid Drivers License is required for this position
Job Function: Responsible
for establishing a trusting relationship with families through initiating and
maintaining regular, long-term contact with families for the purpose of
strengthening the parent-child relationship, providing child development
information, offering support in the areas of goal setting and problem solving.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Initiate and maintain regular contact with families, primarily in their
homes.
- While hours are typically Monday-Friday from 8-4 the availability for
later appointment times with families may be needed.
Conduct interviews in the home to identify at risk families and making appropriate referrals to community resources.
- When in person visits occur, you will be required to
travel throughout the county daily and the use of your personal vehicle may be
required sometimes.
- Provide prenatal and other health education
- Assist families to strengthen parent-child relationships, provide resources as necessary.
- Assist parents to improve their skills to optimize the home environment for the child's well-being and safety.
Timely and accurate documentation in a computer-based information system daily.
Assist Program participants in making and attending health and human service appointments, including activities related to employment and educational goals.
Keep
the Program leadership advised on unified community concerns and issues on a
regular basis through scheduled meetings.
Applicant
must be able to maintain strict confidentiality and appropriate boundaries with
families based on policies by local agency and funding sources.
Work
cooperatively with other CAPCO programs and community agencies
Maintain
functional knowledge of other local, state, and federal programs relating to
low income individuals. Work with other human services agencies in order to
create more effective flow of service in the community.
Participate
in training programs which relate to job responsibilities.
Home
visiting is based on community health conditions, there will be times that most
or all visits may be conducted virtually rather than in person.
Qualifications and Requirements: Minimum of a high school diploma or
equivalent, plus 3 years’ experience or Associated degree in human service
field with at least 1 year experience in working
with or providing services to children and families, an ability to establish
trusting relationships, acceptance of individual differences, experience and
humility to work with the culturally diverse families, knowledge of infant and
child development, willing to engage in building reflective capacity (e.g.,
capacity for introspection, communicating awareness of self in relation to
others, recognizing value of supervision, etc.), infant mental health
endorsement preferred. Must have a valid driver's license and pass a background check.
CAPCO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we do not
discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally
recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniform service
member status, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, and
physical or mental disability. CAPCO will make reasonable accommodations for
qualified candidates in adherence of the Americans with Disabilities Act and
New York Human Rights Act.