Healthy Families Home Visitor
$44,595,200–$49,920,000 year
On-siteBoston, Massachusetts, United States or Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Conduct home-based outreach to young first-time parents, providing individual support, education, advocacy, and screening for substance abuse, maternal depression, and domestic violence. Deliver group-based parenting skills education, social activities, and safety curriculum to promote positive parent-child interaction and prevent child abuse. Develop bi-annual individual family service plans based on assessed strengths and needs, while assisting families in securing medical homes, completing immunizations, and accessing community resources. Perform initial and ongoing assessments of child growth using ASQ-ASQSE, document cases, and collaborate with intra-agency and community partners. Travel locally 75% of the time with a reliable vehicle for home visits, with office presence required for documentation and supervision. Maintain professional boundaries, confidentiality, and cultural sensitivity while utilizing evidence-based curricula in child development and healthy relationships.
Required Qualifications
- A minimum of a high school/HiSet equivalent.
- Minimum 1 year experience working with families from various socio-economic backgrounds and/or infants/young children.
- Have the ability to establish trusting relationships.
- Have acceptance of individual differences.
- Experience and humility to work with culturally diverse families, children, and communities, with a strength-based and family centered lens.
- Willing to engage in building reflective capacity (e.g., capacity for introspection, communicating awareness of self in relation to others, recognizing value of supervision, desire to learn, etc.)
- Knowledge about infant, toddler and adolescent development.
- Good listening and assessment skills; ability to identify family strengths/needs.
- Demonstrated sensitivity to the needs of families from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
- Ability to work using a team centered approach to meet the needs of the program and its participants.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to lift, push and pull up to 30 lbs.
- Understanding of outcome-oriented prevention model.
- Good time management and organizational skills.
- Flexible schedule may be required to accommodate the program and family's needs.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and competent typing and computer skills.
- Valid Massachusetts' driver's license and reliable vehicle for local travel with a safe driving record.
- Local travel to provide home visit service to eligible families through creative outreach.
- Local travel for 75 percent of the work with own reliable vehicle.
- Physical presence in the office is required for the remaining time for the purpose of documenting client case notes and attending supervision unless otherwise approved by the Program Coordinator.
- Flexible schedule may be required to accommodate the program and family's needs.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in reflective supervision preferred
- Experience in home visiting preferred
- Infant Mental Health endorsement preferred
- Bilingual preferred. Fluency in English or Spanish, Haitian Creole, Cape Verde Creole, Portuguese, and Vietnamese welcomed.
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