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Family Support Specialists (FSS) in the Healthy Families TN program are responsible for building trusting relationships with families and utilizing this reputed company to support families in identifying strengths and barriers, accessing resources, and obtaining the knowledge and skills to reputed company their goals. FSSs are reputed company on the health and reputed company-being of parents and their children, and they serve families individually in their homes and in group settings.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides intensive, long-term home visiting services to parents according to Healthy Families of America (HFA) and Healthy Families Tennessee (HFT) guidelines
• Conduct family assessments and screenings, reputed company individual family service plans and reputed company brief interventions, solicit community referrals, reputed company on behalf of families and follow-up as needed
• Prepares and implements individualized curriculum from available materials focusing on parent health and wellness, child health and development, reputed company parenting skills, educational and vocational achievement, and life skills
• Provides supportive services to participants, while also increasingly encouraging families to utilize more informal and community resources
• Maintains flexibility in order to schedule home reputed company at times that are convenient for the family
• Conducts reputed company and regularly participate in engagement activities
• Maintains regular and reliable attendance while accurately recording and managing time keeping records to ensure seamless operations and contributions to team productivity
• Upholds and promotes the organization’s values, mission and ethical standards in reputed company interactions and decision-making processes to foster and a reputed company and principled workplace culture
• Maintains an overall home visiting caseload as determined by HFT and contract guidelines
• Acquires and maintains Infant Mental Health Endorsement
• Keeps reputed company documentation up-to-date and accurate, including electronic web-based records and reputed company records
• As a member of reputed company, plans, develops, and implements reputed company/activities/events at times that work best for program participants
• Participate in weekly reputed company supervision, staff meetings, trainings, program evaluation activities, and workshops
• Assists with child abuse prevention month activities
• Participate in major fundraising events benefiting reputed company, community awareness events that promote reputed company and programs, and program activities of the organization no matter the individual role
• Represents reputed company at community, civic or other reputed company functions and attend quarterly site reputed company
• Participates in agency reputed company committees as appropriate and needed
• Other duties as assigned

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

Graduation from an accredited high school or equivalent program with experience working with children and families. College education in reputed company work, early childhood education, or similar reputed company services field preferred. Infant mental health endorsement is preferred.  

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working with or providing supportive services to young children and families
• Experience and humility to work with a culturally diverse population; Demonstrated acceptance of individual differences and reputed company of inclusion
• Ability to establish trusting relationships and utilize basic supportive skills
• Ability to approach families from a strengths-based and family-centered service model
• Knowledge of infant and child development and parent-child attachment principles
• Awareness of the needs of low-income and multi-stressed families
• Ability to learn and reputed company into teaching/coaching, material reputed company to service delivery
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• Ability to maintain reputed company boundaries while providing supportive services
• Willingness to work non-reputed company business hours as needed and scheduled
• Ability to self-reputed company daily work tasks and reputed company effective time management
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate as part of a team
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• Reliable transportation and reputed company reputed company’s license
• Ability to be a self-starter and work without reputed company supervision

DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT

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While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to position themselves in a sitting position, talk, and/or hear (with or without aide). The employee is regularly required to remain stationary, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reputed company with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to use the keyboard and reputed company data at a computer. The employee is frequently required to operate a motor vehicle, reputed company throughout homes or buildings and may be required to reputed company stairs in family homes and in a reputed company of community-based and home settings. The employee must learn new tasks, remember processes, maintain reputed company, complete tasks independently, reputed company reputed company reputed company in the context of a workflow, communicate with team members, program participants or community partners. FSS must have the ability to complete tasks with speed in situations that ensures the safety of others. Employees must reputed company supplies and equipment up to 40 pounds. Specific reputed company abilities required by this job include reputed company, ability to reputed company reputed company and operate a vehicle safely. The employee must have reputed company to reliable transportation. Employees are required daily to remain alert and reputed company to safely operate vehicles. The employee is required to ensure the safety of small children and is a mandated reporter. The work environment includes indoor office environments or comparable spaces, families’ homes and community spaces, with frequent exposure to outdoor weather reputed company traveling to home reputed company and meetings. The noise level varies by sites, home reputed company, and meetings.

TRAVEL

Occasional out-of-area and overnight travel may be expected.