Home Visitor position at Family Connections in Orange, NJ. Provides home visiting services to Essex County families. Develops and maintains relationships with families, promotes parent-child relationships, and advocates for families. Responsibilities include outreach, marketing, and recruitment of families for the Parents as Teachers program.
Requirements
- Values and participates in the Team as a proactive member
- Respects others' professional opinions and tolerates a range of feelings
- Able to give and receive constructive criticism
- Performs required tasks according to the program philosophy, policies and procedures
- Is courteous, approachable, and cooperative towards co-workers, clients, support staff, and others
- Understands and adheres to confidentiality rights of clients, co-workers and agency
- Practices self-care, has a sense of humor, and possesses a healthy work/life balance
- Ensures the safety & comfort of others by communicating the presence of hazards, injuries, equipment problems or any need for help
- Attends supervision consistently and comes prepared
- Documents supervision
- Able to receive feedback and to learn from it
- Has insight about self (i.e. strengths and weaknesses) and utilizes that knowledge toward growth and change
- Maintains a regular and long-term relationship with their families
- Visits should last for one hour
- Interventions should be family-centered and strength-based
- Establish a trusting relationship and strong rapport with Families
- Assist in strengthening the parent-child relationship
- Assist parents in improving their skills to optimize the home environment and parenting practices that promote the optimal development of children
- Assist in increasing the family support system and increase the family's ability to problem solve and assume the role of advocating for themselves and their children
- Responsible for assisting the family in establishing goals and a plan for the accomplishment of those goals
- Identify, make and facilitate any referals to community services, agencies, or systems as indicated
- Responsible for acquiring all necessary documentation from families as well as inputting documentation into PATsys and relevant information into charts
- Meet all deadlines for paperwork as well as make sure screenings and all required assessments and components of PAT curriculum and PAT documentation are done within the required timeframes
- Build caseload by reaching out to CNJ referrals
- Complete required documentation in PATsys for referral outreach and status of pending enrollments
- Perform outreach in the community to discuss the PAT program and Home Visiting services to educate and recruit families
- Facilitate and assist in Group Connections events
- Demonstrates good writing and organizational skills
- Previous experience with demonstrated success in community outreach and marketing
- Proven ability to work effectively on a team as well as strong Cultural Competence skills
- Experience delivering evidence-based curricula, strong clerical, organizational, and computer skills
- A respectful, professional demeanor and proven ability to work with diverse populations
- Maturity and experience in working with children (0-5 years of age) and their families for at least two years
- Knowledge of normal child growth/development and parent-child relationships
- Ability to relate to families from a strength-based model; ability to approach families from a family-centered service model
- Demonstrates motivation and ability to learn and practice basic supportive skills
- Knowledgeable about community resources
- Ability to establish and maintain personal/programmatic boundaries, while providing supportive services
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to relate to individuals who may not share basic commonality, including value system and behavior norms
- Believes in and is comfortable with advocating for nurturing, nonviolent discipline of children
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Life Insurance
- Long Term Disability
- Retirement Plans
- Vacation
- Personal and Sick Days
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Summer Wellness Fridays
- Professional Development Assistance
- Referral Program
- Internal/External Trainings
- Capella University Partnership
- 403b Retirement Plan with Employer Matching
- Employer-paid Life Insurance
- Employer-paid Long-term Disability (LTD) Insurance
- Employer-paid Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
