Healthy Families Bilingual Spanish Family Support Specialist

IMPACT NW GROUP•Portland, OR

4d•$25 - $25•Onsite

About The Position

At Impact NW, we are a nonprofit with a mission to prevent homelessness, believing in the fundamental right to a beautiful life, stability, and peace. We seek individuals who share our values of putting people first, seeing the beauty in people, promoting peace, and finding a way. Our vision is a future where housing is a human right. The Healthy Families program is a free, voluntary program that works closely with parents of newborns through home visits, aiming to promote positive parent-child relationships, support healthy childhood growth and development, and enhance family functioning by teaching parents to identify strengths and utilize problem-solving skills. We provide information on child development and infant care, free screenings, and connections to community services. This role specifically involves promoting positive parent-child relationships, supporting healthy childhood growth and development, and enhancing family functioning for families with newborns in Multnomah County through home visiting.

Requirements

Bilingual Spanish/English required.
Experience and humility to work with culturally diverse families.
Experience working with Latinx communities required.
Minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent.
Ability to provide strengths-based, client-centered services in a culturally responsive manner.
Ability to establish trusting relationships and accept individual differences.
Willing to engage in building reflective capacity (e.g., capacity for introspection, communicating awareness of self in relation to others, recognizing value of supervision).
Ability and willingness to work as a dependable, flexible team member and support Impact NW’s mission and goals.
Excellent writing, interpersonal, and communication skills required.
Must be able to function independently and use ethical judgment in making decisions.
Possess excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize multiple and varied tasks.
Possess excellent time management skills.
Some computer skills needed.
Willingness to work a flexible schedule including some evenings and occasional weekends.
Possess a valid driver’s license, a good driving record, and provide own dependable transportation to drive on behalf of agency.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree in early childhood education, social work or related field preferred.
Knowledge of infant and child development, Infant Mental Health Endorsement® through Oregon Infant Mental Health Association preferred.
Experience providing early childhood education services to low-income children ages prenatal to 5 years and their families, experience in providing parent and child development services for families with infants and toddlers preferred.

Responsibilities

Deliver parent and child education services in home visit settings to parents and their babies 0-3 years of age according to families’ individual goal plans, families’ needs, developmental stage of baby, and using a variety of curriculum.
Work with families, supervisor, and Healthy Families team to promote positive parent-child relationships, support healthy growth and development, enhance problem-solving skills and improve support systems.
Effectively work with families and individuals of diverse backgrounds (including teen parents; families with mental health, substance use, or domestic violence concerns; families experiencing poverty).
Maintain accurate, legible, timely documentation detailing contact and progress of families.
Complete on-going evaluation documentation and assessments for each family in accordance with Healthy Families standards and requirements.
Connect families with community resources and support self-advocacy across systems.
Encourage and facilitate family participation in program and community activities.
Serve as a cohesive member of the team, participate in problem solving and promote innovation.
Provide support and development opportunities to new staff, interns, and volunteers.
Establish and maintain professional boundaries.
Meet weekly for 1.5 hours with supervisor for supervision.
Fulfill all training and evaluation requirements as established by Healthy Families standards and Impact NW.
Possess and maintain a valid Oregon or Washington driver's license, an acceptable driving record, and reliable access to a personal vehicle.
Use a personal vehicle to travel to and from home visits and other work-related locations and to transport resources, supplies, and materials necessary to perform job duties.