Family Support Worker / Family Assessment Worker

CCAP Mission Statement - To empower all people and communities, challenged by poverty as well as social and cultural barriers, through advocacy, education, and access to high quality health and human services.

JOB SUMMARY:

Healthy Families America (HFA) is a voluntary home-based program whose staff receives extensive training in family assessment and home visitation. Staff will provide curriculum-based visits using the Growing Great Kids Curriculum over a long term to promote parent-child relationships and healthy childhood growth and development. Services are typically initiated prenatally or at birth.

WORK SCHEDULE DEMANDS:

• This is a full-time, 40 hours per week, home-based, office-based, and hybrid position.
• Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm
• This position requires home visits and driving

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• BA/BSW or related in Human Services, Child Development, Psychology, Social Work or related field of study, preferred
• Minimum Associate Degree in Human Services or Certified Community Health Worker and 2 years' experience working with pregnant families and/or families with children multiple needs, providing services to and/or engaging families with infants and toddlers in services.
• Valid Driver's License and active vehicle insurance
• Bilingual Spanish; preferred
• Provide/maintain all required immunizations and/or vaccinations
• Complete all required background checks
• Ability to establish trusting relationships
• Acceptance of individual differences
• Experience and humility to work with the culturally diverse families
• Knowledge of infant and child development
• Willing to engage in building reflective capacity (e.g., capacity for introspection, communicating awareness of self in relation to others, recognizing value of supervision, etc.)
• Infant mental health endorsement, preferred

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• FSW/FAWs must attend HFA specific trainings in Foundations for Support (FFS), Family resilience and opportunities for growth scale (FROG) and the Growing Great Kids (GGK) curriculum.
• Staff are required to attend HEALTH’s MIECHV (Maternal, Infant and Early Child Home Visiting) trainings and any other training deemed necessary by the RI Dept of Health.
• Trainings offered in Rhode Island, staff may be required to travel out of state to attend core training.
• The GGK curriculum is utilized in the delivery of HFA services with families.
• Staff must utilize assessment tools to identify and address substance abuse, mental health, domestic violence, etc and refer to appropriate community resources.
• Meet with families on a regular basis in accordance with HFA Model standards per caseload capacity.
• Attend reflective supervision weekly and regular staff meetings.
• Maintain boundaries with families in an ethical and professional manner.
• Adhere to child abuse and neglect reporting laws.
• Perform screenings via standardized screenings for developmental milestones per recommended intervals.
• Follow CCAP and HFA policies and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned.

CCAP strives to cultivate and sustain a workforce devoted to providing compassionate and respectful care to all patients and clients. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Our Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits package includes 403(b), health insurance, vision and dental insurance, life insurance, long term disability, flexible spending accounts, health reimbursement accounts, tuition reimbursement up to $1,000 annually, Employee Assistance Program, generous vacation, sick and personal days, and up to 13 available paid holidays for full-time employees and some benefits are included for part-time employees.