Family Visitor - Healthy Families America

FSRI is always looking for candidates that want to make a positive impact on the community!

Position Summary: Provides high quality home visiting services to vulnerable and often high risk families in accordance with Healthy Families America (HFA) model requirements. Partners with families to strengthen parent-child relationships, achieve positive child health outcomes, and improve family functioning. Ensures that model fidelity is maintained and carries out required activities as set forth by RI Dept. of Health contractual guidelines. Assists with facilitating groups, community outreach events, and developing relationships with community partners. Family visitor to support families referred by Child Protective Services.

SPECIFIC DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Uses a variety of creative and persistent outreach methods to identify, engage, and retain expectant families and families with newborns.
• Determines eligibility for the program using the Family Resilience and Opportunity for Growth assessment tool.
• Administers specified screenings at required intervals to identify potential concerns relating to alcohol/substance use, domestic violence, mental health, parent child interaction, and child development.
• Actively supports families in accessing other needed resources, services, and supports in the community (providing transportation as needed.)
• Assists families with identifying, planning for, and monitoring progress towards individualized, family-driven goals.
• Provides services that focus on health, child development, parenting, social services, and other outcomes established for this program.
• Utilizes an evidence-informed curriculum to promote parent-child relationship and optimize the home environment.
• Conducts visits in families’ homes or other community locations; establishes trusting and non-judgmental relationships with families; maintains appropriate professional boundaries.
• Effectively utilizes weekly reflective individual supervision and group case consultations.
• Completes all required documentation within required timeframes, demonstrates proficiency in using an electronic health record as well as program-specific software.
• Communicates and actively participates as a member of the HFA team; participates in meetings and quality management initiatives for FSRI.
• Attends all mandatory training required for HFA staff, including core training as required by the model and RI Dept. of Health; takes initiative for personal learning needs and areas of development.
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of associate’s degree in human services, Social work, Child Development, Education or related field.
• Experience working with culturally diverse communities/families and demonstrated ability to be culturally sensitive and appropriate.
• Enjoys and functions appropriately with long-term, ongoing projects; and confident to work independently.
• Ability to provide services when families are available, which may include some weeknight or weekend hours.
• Working knowledge of state and community resources, able to effectively impart this knowledge to families.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required,
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.
• Current driver’s license, registration and auto insurance.

CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Attend additional required trainings as determined by FSRI, the RI Dept. of Health, and the HFA model.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Travel to and from clients’ residences, community locations and office sites, which could include using walkways, stairs and/or elevators.
• Ability to lift up to 20lbs.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Here at FSRI, we’re dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about one of our career opportunities, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be the perfect fit for this or another opportunity!

We offer our employees a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental and work life benefits.
Only together can we continue to grow and make a difference in our communities.
Join our FAMILY today!

Family Service of RI (FSRI) is a statewide organization with a 130 year track record of improving the health and well-being of children and families. We are passionate about our mission to advance opportunity and hope. FSRI’s diverse and inclusive teams – working across the Health, Healing, Home and Hope divisions, are experts in their fields, delivering strategies to positively impact lives. We provide services statewide, and currently operate in three locations in Providence; and four locations in East Providence, Smithfield and North Smithfield.

Family Service of Rhode Island provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

FSRI determines pay based on a candidate's relevant and transferable experience, certifications, licenses, degree and language ability.