Family Support Specialist Come Join Our Team!
CARE’s Family Support Specialists play a critical role in initializing and maintaining regular, long-term support and providing information to high-risk parents in Tillamook County. Using an Infant Mental Health model, home visits primarily occur in the family’s home and typically last one hour. Visits are family-centered, strength-based and focus on establishing a trusting relationship, assisting in strengthening parent/child attachment and relationships, improving the family’s support system and increasing the family’s ability to problem solve. Family Support Specialist s are responsible for assisting the family in increasing protective factors, establishing family goals, optimizing their child’s development through play, creating positive parent/child interactions, and participating in assessing the child’s growth and development.
The Family Support Specialist provides comprehensive support, goal setting, linkages to services, advocacy, and evaluation. The Healthy Families Supervisor supervises the Family Support Specialist.
Core AccountabilitiesFamily Support
- Maintain a trusting relationship to provide home visitation and family support services to high-risk families with children from prenatal through preschool years.
- Perform screenings and ongoing assessments of families and children.
- Develop and implement a “Family Goal Plan” with each family participating in intensive services.
- Assess and monitor home learning environment and record observations and activities.
- Utilize specified Healthy Families America curricula with families in the program.
- Assist families in accessing needed community resources and collaborate with partner agencies to support families obtaining services.
- Teach child development and positive parenting skills using a strength-based approach.
- Champion CARE’s culture compact in your approach to your clients and peers.
Outcomes
- Families and children are supported in a caring, supportive, way in compliance with Healthy Families America standards.
- Every family has a “Family Goal Plan” and receive the training, resources, and support needed in a timely manner.
Compliance
- Working knowledge of Healthy Families Best Practice Standards, program plans/policies, and Oregon Performance Standards/Indicators
- Maintain accurate, complete, and confidential records (per policies and HIPPA protections) that reflect assessment, individualized service plans, goals, activities, and outcomes.
- Prepare and submit reports and data as required in a timely manner.
- Participate in regular staff meetings and supervision as well as attend training, and professional development opportunities, to remain abreast of current early child development research and trends.
Outcomes
- Records are accurate, current, and confidential.
- All reporting requirements are met on time.
- Family Support Specialist is up to date on latest training, thinking, and research on early childhood development.
Experience Requirements
- Strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with partner agencies and advocate for clients.
- Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive information effectively and confidentially.
- Excels in multi-tasking, goal setting, accountability, and workload prioritization.
- Three years of early childhood experience or a related field (health, social service, child development, infant mental health, etc.) including one year of comparable responsibility.
- Must have excellent listening skills with ability to develop positive relationships with families from all walks of life.
- Must have reliable transportation, valid driver’s license, and current insurance.
- Must be able to pass a background check
- High School Diploma, or equivalent.
- Bilingual English and Spanish preferred.
Core competencies and characteristics
Mentor:
- Nurture and supporting growth and development in employees and volunteers.
- Model leadership through empathy, respect, sensitivity, and engagement.
- Create a climate of trust and openness.
- Reflect consistency and authenticity to internal and external stakeholders.
- Persevere through complexity and ambiguity with patience and resilience.
- Maintain an ongoing commitment to personal learning, growth, and development.
- Reflect and contribute to knowledge generation.
Connector:
- Invest in the development of relationships, networks, and partnerships to further CARE’s mission and impact.
- Collaborate with a range of stakeholders in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors.
- Negotiate to successfully resolve conflict.
- Bring community and issue-based knowledge to connect stakeholders, opportunities, and ideas.
- Listen for diverse voices.
Innovator:
- Encourage organizational curiosity.
- Take risks to create and innovate.
- Celebrate and learning from success, near misses, and failure.
- Act strategically to support a different future.
- Adapt and adjust to a dynamic environment.
Advocate:
- Amplify the voice of the underrepresented.
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion within CARE and Healthy Families.
- Be willing to speak truth to power.
- Maneuver through complex political situations effectively.
- Anticipate land mines, and planning approach accordingly.
CARE Inc. values a diverse and competent workforce that strengthens our organization and allows us to better serve our clients and peers. We value diversity and support, a positive and welcoming environment where all employees can thrive.
CARE Inc. has a commitment to inclusive excellence by advancing Diversity, Equity, Including, Access and Belonging in all that we do. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate against applicants based on any protected class status, including disability and protected veteran status. We encourage applicants from members from historically underrepresented racial / ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and other who demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive work family.
In practice, this means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national, origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a parent, marital status, or political affiliation.
At CARE Inc. we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about the role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other roles with CARE Inc.
Compensation and Benefits Positions Available: 1
CARE is offering a comprehensive and competitive compensation package.
Compensation: $21.23 - $31.22 DOEE.
Hours: 40 Hours / week
Benefits: This position qualifies for CARE’s benefits package which includes health insurance, paid time off and holidays.
Work Location: CARE Inc., Healthy Families | 2310 First St. (Annex) | Tillamook, OR 97141
Reports to: Healthy Families Manager
Application instructions: All applications should include the following-
- One page resume with relevant work experience
- 3 professional references
email to the following- khedlund@careinc.org or drop off at the CARE office location
at 2310 First St. Ste 2 | Tillamook, OR 92141
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $21.23 - $31.22 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Relocation assistance
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person