Family Support Worker - Healthy Families

The New York Foundling•Staten Island, NY

19h•Onsite

About The Position

The New York Foundling is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting individuals and families in achieving stability, strength, and independence. They offer a range of programs focused on child welfare, family support, developmental disabilities services, and health and mental health services. Their approach is holistic, aiming to provide whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life solutions to build lifelong resilience and well-being. The Healthy Families – Staten Island program specifically aims to engage overburdened families through home visiting services, foster nurturing parent-child relationships, promote healthy child development, and enhance family functioning by reducing risks and building protective factors.

Requirements

Must hold a high school diploma/GED or equivalent.
Valid NYS Driver’s License.
Comfortable driving the agency vehicle with or without participants.
Experience in working with or providing services to children and families.
An ability to establish trusting relationships.
Acceptance of individual differences.
Experience and willingness to work with culturally diverse populations.
Knowledge of infant and child development.
Open to reflective practice (i.e., has capacity for introspection, communicates awareness of self in relation to others, recognizes the value of supervision).
Ability to maintain appropriate professional boundaries.
Ability to identify family strengths and foster self-sufficiency and independence in families.
Respect for and sensitivity to the needs and rights of others, including those with differing cultural, racial, sexual, and ethnic identities.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Conducting weekly home visits to prenatal and new parents on Staten Island.
Initiating and maintaining regular contact with families, primarily in their homes.
Establishing trusting relationships with families and involving them or their support systems in treatment.
Welcoming all interested family members in home visits and working to engage fathers or father-figures.
Ensuring families are seen with the frequency prescribed by the model and supervisor's guidance (weekly for a minimum of six months, then tapering to biweekly, monthly, and quarterly visits).
Providing prenatal and other health education.
Assisting to strengthen parent-child relationships.
Assisting parents to improve their skills to optimize the home environment for the child’s well-being and safety.
Assisting in making and attending health and human service appointments, including activities related to employment and educational goals.
Collaborating and making collateral contacts with other service providers involved with the family.
Completing weekly paperwork and data entry, including descriptive narratives of each home visit and data forms.
Maintaining up-to-date case records for each family.
Maintaining clear, concise, and accurate documentation of progress that promotes peer and supervisory review and feedback, and demonstrates compliance with the model and agency expectations.
Ensuring documentation (data entry) for contacts, incidents, and reports are submitted timely.