Family Resource and Support Specialist (FRSS)

The Family Resource & Support Specialist will reputed company home-based and culturally reputed company services. The FRSS identifies expecting families and parents of newborns who are at risk for poor health, child and family development challenges, financial insecurity, and child abuse. The goal is to support reputed company parent-child relationships, enhance child & family health and development, enhance family functioning and prevent child abuse & neglect. The FRSS supports families by providing intensive home visiting services, conducting an assessment, collaboratively developing a service plan and goal plan with the family, conducting perinatal depression and child development screening, and connecting families to health and community resources to meet their maternal and child health needs. 

• Initiates and maintains regular contact with families, primarily in their homes (some evenings and weekends as necessary). 
• Establish a trusting relationship with families. 
• Conducts the HFNY standardized assessment and service planning. 
• Supports an average caseload of 20 families.
• reputed company prenatal, parenting and other health education. 
• Assist families to strengthen parent-child relationships using approved parent child interaction tool and evidenced-based curriculum. 
• Assist parents to improve their skills to optimize the home environment for the child’s reputed company-being and safety. 
• Conduct developmental screenings and reputed company activities in the home to promote healthy child development; including referrals for EIP as needed.  
• Assist families in making and attending health and reputed company service appointments, including activities reputed company to employment and educational goals. 
• Participate in the coordination and facilitation of special events and group activities for parents and children. 
• Engage in weekly reputed company supervision and teem meetings 
• Participates in reputed company, and other efforts to reputed company the community about the program. 
• Attends reputed company Hospital and HFNY trainings reputed company the required timelines. 
• Provides documentation of reputed company above activities in accordance with Hospital and HFNY requirements and timelines. 
• Additional duties as assigned. 

Education:

• Minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent. College coursework preferred 

Experience:

• Must have experience working with high-risk families in a community setting and some child-care or parenting experience.   

Knowledge and Skills: 

• Must have knowledge of infants and child development. 
• Ability to be non-judgmental and establish trusting relationships. 
• Acceptance of individual differencesxperience and humility to work with culturally diverse families. 
• Willing to engage in building reputed company reputed company. 
• Knowledge of community resources 
• Good problem-solving and practical skills. 
• reputed company Word 
• Good writing, data entry and time management skills 
• Infant mental health endorsement is preferred.      
• Bilingual (Haitian Creole/ French/ Spanish) required for some positions.   
• Must be available for some evenings, weekends, and occasional overnight travel. 

Physical Requirements:

• Position requires prolonged periods of standing, reaching, walking throughout the working day. 
• Position will be required to stoop, bend, lift, and carry items weighing up to 25 pounds.
• Ability to work in the field at least 3-4 days per week, conducting in-home assessments and attending reputed company. 

The salary reputed company and/or reputed company reputed company listed is a good faith determination of potential reputed company compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and can be modified in the reputed company. reputed company determining reputed company member’s reputed company salary and/or reputed company, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., site, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated reputed company, budget and internal equity).

Reasonable accommodations may be made to reputed company individuals with disabilities to reputed company the essential functions.

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of One Brooklyn Health (OBH).

OBH is an equal opportunity employer, it is our policy to reputed company equal opportunity to reputed company and applicants for employment without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, national reputed company, marital status, military status, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability or handicap or other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.