The Grant Position Verde Valley Parent Partnership Worker 2 (GPPW), or Family Support Specialist under the direct leadership of the Manager/Supervisor, is responsible for providing home-based parenting information and education, developmental assessments, parenting assessments, plan development, emotional support, and preservation of the medical home for at-risk families. |
Administrative * Provides referrals and resources based on family needs. * Assists Supervision in monthly billing documentation and data collection. * Responsible for performing a variety of clerical duties, including collection and data entry for the home visiting program. * Follows up with referrals and identified issues. |
Community Outreach * Serves as a liaison for the community by for building, working with and establishing relationships. * Assists with development of community support and education groups. |
Operations * Demonstrates focus placement on strengthening parent-child relationship (improving parenting skills, reducing family stress, and meeting the bio-psychosocial needs of infants, children and their parents). * Coordinates play groups. * Demonstrates advanced training and skills in development, children with special needs, family retention, advanced substance abuse, and family violence. * Performs initial assessment and evaluation to potential, eligible families. * Coordinates and administers daily referrals and screenings of patients for admittance into the program. * Administers the Parent Survey (Family Stress Checklist) with all families who volunteer to participate in the needs assessment process. * Collaborates with Program Manager/Supervisor to discuss and review each referral. * Assists the Supervisor in client satisfaction phone calls, and completes appropriate documents. * Assists the Supervisor in completing home observations for staff, and completion of documents. * Demonstrated proficiency of initial assessment and evaluation of potential, eligible families. * Creates safe, trusting atmosphere with families. * Ensures appropriate curriculum is based on individual family needs. * Maintains positive community relationships. * Develops and maintains family plan of care progression and/or accomplishments by families. |
Staff Development * Assists Supervisor with staff development. * Assists the Supervisor in participation in orientation of new staff. * Assists Supervisor win scheduling education opportunities for staff. |
Compliance/Safety * Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner. * Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employee's area of responsibility. * If required for the position, ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates. * Completes all company mandatory modules and required job-specific training in the specified time frame. |
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