Home Visitor

Bridges Homeward • Boston, MA

12d • $42,500 - $43,500

About The Position

The Healthy Families Massachusetts Home Visitor is a member of the Bridges Homeward team and uses a strengths-based, skill-building approach to support families. Services include the whole family, including parents, babies, and extended family or other support networks identified by participants. Through attuned interactions, the Home Visitor encourages participants at their own pace to build the knowledge, skills, and support networks to become resilient parents and advocates for themselves and their children.

The Healthy Families program aims to prevent child abuse and neglect through positive parenting support; promote optimal health, growth, and development in infancy and early childhood; increase educational attainment, job, and life skills; reduce unintended repeat teen pregnancies; and promote parental health and wellness.

The position operates on a 33.5-hour, four-and-a-half-day work week. It offers a $4,000 sign-on bonus, paid in quarterly installments of $1,000 during the first year. Employees must remain for two years to keep the full bonus. Those who leave before one year must repay the bonus received; those who leave after one year but before two years must repay 50%.

Requirements

• High school diploma.
• At least one year of experience providing case management and/or counseling services to children, adolescents, and families.
• Bilingual in English and at least one of Spanish, Portuguese, or Haitian Creole.
• Ability to establish trusting relationships with program participants.
• Experience and humility working with culturally diverse families, and demonstrated acceptance of individual differences.
• Knowledge of infant and child development.
• Willingness to engage in building reflective capacity.
• Valid driver’s license and car.
• CORI, SORI, and fingerprinting required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with pregnant or parenting teens or young adults.
• Lived parenting experience.
• Infant mental health endorsement.
• Spanish is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide parenting education and support in home visits and group settings.
• Help reduce violent, impulsive, and risky behaviors among adolescent parents.
• Promote safe and healthy homes.
• Improve family self-sufficiency while supporting vulnerable families.
• Use the Protective Factors Framework in home services to help families build resilience, resources, knowledge, skills, and support systems.
• Organize and manage a caseload of families and children referred to Healthy Families Massachusetts.
• Collaborate with parents, children, community resources, and program staff to develop plans, identify needed resources and services, make referrals, and monitor service provision.
• Maintain regular contact with collaborating partners.
• Provide conflict resolution and mediation for families.
• Monitor children’s safety in the home.
• Maintain complete, detailed, and accurate records.
• Support or present information at parenting workshops, independently or with team members.

Benefits

• $4,000 sign-on bonus, paid as $1,000 quarterly during the first year, subject to repayment conditions if the employee leaves before completing two years.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED