Healthy Families Family Support Specialist (Sevier & Grainger Co.)

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• Ensures services are provided in the family's home.
• Ensures each visit lasts about one hour.
• Each visit should maintain family-centered and strengths-based approaches at all times.

• Each family will receive evidence-based interventions that strengthen the parent-child relationship by using evidence-based curriculum and activities on home visits.
• Each family will receive evidence-based interventions that promote healthy childhood growth and development by using evidence-based curriculum and activities on home visits.
• Each family will receive evidence-based interventions that reduce risk factors and increase resiliency factors by using evidence-based curriculum and activities on home visits.
• Maintains strong knowledge of evidence-based curriculum and quality interventions.

• Maintain caseload of 15 level one families or a weighted caseload of no more than 30 families.
• Ensure the home visitation completion rate of 85% or above is maintained at all times by conducting home visits at an interval based on each family's level of care.
• Ensure productivity is completed at 100% at all times by completing home visits, brief home visits, attempted home visits, office visits, and extra home visits.

• All families will achieve obtaining a medical home in accordance with the Healthy Families America model timetable.

• All well-child exams will be maintained according to the American Academy of Pediatrics Schedule of Well-Child Visits.
• All children will maintain completed immunizations in accordance with the American Academy of Pediatrics Schedule of Childhood Immunizations.
• All children will receive the Ages and Stages Questionnaire completed in accordance with the required Healthy Families America model timetable; all children presenting with a developmental delay will receive referrals for early intervention services if the family consents.
• All children will have the Ages and Stages Questionnaire ? Social and Emotional completed in accordance with the required Healthy Families America model timetable; every child whose scores indicated additional mental health assessment will be referred to an infant mental health assessment or home visiting service plans will reflect interventions to address this need if the family consents.
• All prenatal and postnatal women will have Depression Screens completed in accordance with the Healthy Families America model timetable; all screens that indicate a need for mental health assessments will result in a referral for additional mental health care if the woman consents.
• All families will have Domestic Violence screens completed in accordance with the Healthy Families America model timetable.
• All families will have a Cheers Check In (Parent-Child Interaction tool) completed in accordance with the Healthy Families America model timetable.
• All families will receive appropriate referrals to community resources based upon family needs.
• When child safety concerns arise, workers will immediately notify their supervisors and will make referrals to the Child Abuse Hotline or DCS when deemed necessary.

• Ensuring home visit notes are completed and turned into supervisor within 2 business days.
• Recording well-child exams and immunizations in the chart within 1 months of the occurrence.
• Completing and turning into supervisor the monthly service records and progress notes by the 3rd of each month.
• Utilize the Tennessee Department of Health's REDCAP database to input required forms and screenings tools within 10 business days of the occurrence.

• The Family Service Plan is completed within 14 days of entry into services for all newly enrolling families.
• The Family Service Plan is updated at least monthly for all enrolled families.

• Ensuring attendance of 1.5 to 2 hours of weekly reflective supervision each week.
• Willingness to engage in and building reflective capacity.

• Initial Foundations for Family Support Core Training.
• Required HFA Wrap-around training in the first year
• Annual Child Abuse and Neglect training.
• Annual Diversity Equity and Inclusion training.
• Annual McNabb Center Relias trainings, CPR and First Aid, and Handle with Care trainings.
• 15 hours of Infant Mental Health Training annually to maintain Endorsement.

• If hired without an Endorsement, will submit application on Endorsement Application System, uphold Ethics Code, achieve mandatory references, and complete and submit 30 hours of required infant mental health training within first year of employment.
• Once Endorsement is achieved or if hired with an endorsement, will maintain endorsement every year but completing and submitting 15 continuing education hours and updating the Code of Ethics review process annually.

• Familiarizing self with the more than 150 required Policies and Procedures.
• Ensuring all documentation is maintained for accreditation.
• Ensuring trainings are maintained.
• Ensuring home visiting rates are tracked and home visits are completed.
• Completed accreditation interview.

• Using the 7 Core Healthy Families America Reflective Strategies with all families during home visiting services.
• Maintaining interest in and the ability to see things from multiple points of view.
• Using an ecological perspective when working with families.
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of infants, toddlers, and attachment and the ability to their relationships with their caregivers.
• Using self-awareness by being clear on one's own values and triggers and how these things influence their perceptions and interpretation of family needs and the impact on families.
• Maintaining a balanced and realistic view of relationships including positive and negative aspects.
• Talking about and thinking about relationships and personal feelings that arise during supervision.
• Considering another person's feelings, wants, needs, and states of mind so interactions and responses can be intentional.
• Ensuring if ruptures occur with a family, they are repaired.
• Taking responsibility for their own contributions and reactions to difficult situations.
• Tolerating ambiguity.
• Recognizing and taking action when oneself needs to be put in a more balanced state.

• Starting salary for this position is based on relevant experience and education. The starting salary for high school prepared applicants is $17.21/hr. The starting salary for bachelor's level applicants is $18.29/hr.

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Psychology, or related field preferred.

• High school diploma and lived experience required if not Bachelor's Qualified.
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