Home Visitor - Healthy Start

Brightpoint-posted 5 days ago
$19 - $21/Yr
Full-time • Entry Level
Hybrid • Bloomington, IL
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Brightpoint invites you to join our team of mission-driven staff who share a common vision: an equitable world where all children and families thrive in strong communities. As a leader in the human services sector for 140 years, we aim to advance the well-being of children by investing in families and strengthening communities through data-informed, collaborative, and preventative solutions. The Healthy Start Home Visitor meets with expectant parents and families with young children in Dewitt and McLean Counties, providing strength-based, family-centered services, comprehensive assessment, and education. As a Home Visitor, you will develop safe and trusting relationships with expectant and new parents, helping them to expand their support networks, maximize access to needed services, and providing support and expertise as they successfully navigate the parenting journey.

  • Completes assessments with families to determine child/family needs, according to specified timelines.
  • Establishes trusting and nurturing relationships with clients/participants.
  • Provides observations of parent-child interactions, careful listening, and empathic responses and engages clients/participants in reflection on the developing parent-child relationship.
  • Assists clients/participants to expand their support systems by providing community networking/ advocacy for and with family members; provides information and assistance in locating and accessing community resources that support family well-being and ensures successful linkages to needed services, such as early intervention, mental health, social service supports, health care, etc.
  • Maintains positive working relationships with collateral partners, referring agencies and other community resources.
  • Assists families in establishing goals and creating a plan for accomplishment of those goals including resource identification.
  • Supports families who may have witnessed or experienced trauma, domestic violence, mental health issues, homelessness and/or substance abuse. When needed, develops safety plans for family well-being.
  • Completes required documentation, paperwork and data entry accurately and within designated timelines.
  • Associate's Degree in a human services field required
  • One year of experience working with families with children under the age of 5 required.
  • Valid driver's license, insurance, and a reliable vehicle required.
  • Bachelor's Degree preferred.
  • Medical/dental/vision insurance
  • 3+ weeks paid time off in the first year including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day (PTO increases with tenure)
  • 11 paid holidays
  • supplemental insurance options
  • 401(k) with match
  • Brightpoint is an approved agency for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
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