HFM Supervisor-Spanish speaking required
About The Position
The Healthy Families Massachusetts (HFM) Program aims to prevent child abuse and neglect by supporting positive parenting skills, promoting optimal health and development in infancy and early childhood, increasing educational attainment and life skills, reducing repeat pregnancies, and promoting parental health and wellness. Bridges Homeward, a long-standing human services agency founded in 1873, provides a variety of services including foster care, adoption, developmental disabilities support, and family support. This position operates on a full-time, 33.5-hour work week and offers a $4,000 sign-on bonus, with repayment stipulations based on tenure.
Requirements
- Master's degree in human services or fields related to working with children and families, or bachelor's degree in these fields with 3 years of relevant experience, or less than a bachelor's degree but with commensurate HFA experience.
- A solid understanding of or experience in supervising diverse staff with humility, as well as providing support to staff in stressful work environments.
- Knowledge of infant and child development and parent-child attachment.
- Experience with family services that embraces the concepts of family-centered and strength-based service provision.
- Knowledge of parent-infant health and dynamics of child abuse and neglect.
- Experience supporting culturally diverse communities/families.
- Experience in home visiting with a strong background in early childhood prevention services.
- Willingness to engage in building reflective practice (e.g., capacity for introspection, communicating awareness of self in relation to others, recognizing value of supervision, etc.).
Nice To Haves
- Infant mental health endorsement preferred.
- Experience with reflective practice preferred.
- Spanish speaking preferred.
Responsibilities
- Directly supervises up to 5 home visitors including providing and documenting weekly reflective supervision, providing oversight of home visitor documentation and assessments and compliance with HFM Model.
- Maintain up-to-date documentation of supervision.
- Processes and manages referrals and intakes and supports participant outreach.
- Maintain ongoing communication with community partners.
- Supports program goals, including program outreach, group development and enrollment and on-going team growth and professional development.
- Assists Program Director in recruitment, hiring, evaluation and training of new home visitors to guarantee high quality services for families.
- Participate in HFM Provider meetings and other collateral meetings as needed.
- Complete Quality Assurance activities including observing home visits, QA calls, Co-visits and providing feedback to home visitors.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Sign on bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
