Healthy Steps Specialist I

Arkansas Children's Hospital • Little Rock, AR

106d

About The Position

The HealthySteps Specialist I is an early childhood development expert who will join the pediatric primary care team at Arkansas Children's to provide interventions, referrals, and follow-up for families with patients ages 0-3 for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral issues. The HealthySteps Specialist I builds strong relationships with families, providers, other multidisciplinary team members and partners to increase the efficiency of the medical system and support team-based comprehensive care.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field of study.

Responsibilities

• Promotes integrated behavioral health and evidence based pediatric intervention within the primary care practice to families and providers.
• Participates in team based visits.
• Maintains a child development support line and responds to/tracks call requests.
• Coordinates medical, specialty, and community agency appointments as needed.
• Provides referrals and tracks follow-up to help families make successful connections to key resources within the community.
• Participates in community-wide early childhood learning collaboratives or work groups.
• Facilitates HealthySteps model of care delivery by collaborating with clinic staff and providers.
• Engages in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives.
• Maintains open communication with the primary care team and provides consultation and/or facilitates training to medical professionals and all practice staff.
• Maintains all data and records required to meet metrics including both internal and external referrals.
• Collaborates with Implementation Team to complete required annual site reporting.
• Documents all patient clinical activity and care coordination in the electronic medical record.
• Tracks caseload to ensure capacity to deliver services within the risk-stratified service delivery model.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Industry: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees