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Healthy Families Home Visitor / Community Health Worker - Must be fluent in Spanish. Must have valid driver's license.Job ID: Company2239966 GHCLocation: Chelsea Health CenterDepartmentCommunity Health ProgramsStnd Hrs/Wk40.00Shift DayFull/Part Time:Full-TimeRegular/Temporary:Regular ResponsibilitiesThe Healthy Families Home Visitor is responsible for providing in home long-term support, education, and advocacy, for high risk parents of newborns in Chelsea. The program supports mothers and fathers, within their cultural context, to develop confidence in their role and ability to parent in the midst of the multiple complex factors in their lives. The role reports to the Healthy Beginnings Clinical Supervisor and Manager and works with other Healthy Families Home Visitors as well as Pediatric Healthy Steps Coordinators.* Conduct consistent home visits to pregnant women and parents of newborns who are patients of MGH Chelsea, providing emotional support and education. The parents would be first time parents in this country and home visits will be done in line with the Healthy Families model guidelines. * Develop trusting relationships by recognizing parents strengths, honoring cultural and familial traditions, and encouraging parents feelings of self-confidence. * Act as a role model for parenting and basic life skills, such as nurturing, bonding, playing comforting, appropriate discipline, communicating clearly, handling and expressing feelings, and exploring options for problem solving. * Promote healthy parent-child attachment * Reduce mothers social isolation by assisting with access to community resources * Participate in weekly supervision with supervisor to review cases and participate in monthly group supervision meetings with the program team to brainstorm particularly challenging cases and to review program updates. * Document parent and child contact and progress in electronic medical record and in ETO program data base. * Attend ongoing trainings and Community Health Improvement team and Pediatric team meetings. * Work closely with other members of Community Health Improvement and the Ob/Gyn Unit, Mental Health Department and the Pediatric Department, collaborating on cases, feeding back information and making cross referrals.Qualifications High School or equivalent degree required. Bi-lingual (Spanish/English). Must be able to communicate competently in English* Must have valid Driver's license. * Must be empathic, supportive and patient Ability to work with people of many cultures Ability to take initiative and willingness to learn Experience with parenting, child development or with human service work Data base skills.
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