PROGRAM COORDINATOR (PS)

CHILDRENS HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS•Peoria, IL

14h•$60,320 - $75,400•Onsite

About The Position

Children’s Home Association of Illinois (CHAIL) is seeking an ambitious and compassionate full-time Good Beginnings-Healthy Families Program Coordinator to provide supervision to a team of Family Support Specialists ensuring that children and families receive quality services, and the program meets expectations for the agency, funders, and the national Healthy Families America standards. Our mission is to help kids and families who need it most. We work with families to help them succeed and break neglect, abuse, and trauma cycles. We do this through health, safety, and educational outreach through home visiting. Good Beginnings helps parents develop successful skills in their families, schools, and workplaces. We work to create and restore healthy parent-child relationships and connect families to community resources as needed. Stronger families start here! This position provides supervisory support for 4 Family Support Specialists (FSS) and 1 Outreach Specialist. Facilitates weekly 1.5-2-hour supervision sessions, ensures that home visiting documentation is completed accurately and submitted in accordance with program policies. Monitors Family Support Specialists caseloads and home visit completion rates. Observe each FSS’s in home visits at least semiannually and provide feedback that encourages professional development. Routinely provide reflective supervision to FSS’s to support their work with challenging families and enhance their abilities. Develops and implements training plans and ensures staff are meeting the Healthy America training requirements. Provides annual evaluations, ensures grant requirements and program outcomes are being meet, conducts team building activities, manages individual grant budget and attends community meetings. The ideal individual for this position is a strong leader who has a substantial knowledge of child development and the challenges of working with families who are at-risk. The ability to support a team of home visitors through reflective practice and supervision is essential. This position requires an ability to interact positively with multiple entities in the community including early childhood and child abuse prevention groups. This individual must possess the ability to relate to persons of diverse backgrounds and have an ability to assist staff in understanding ways in which they can achieve outcomes by approaching the work in a culturally sensitive manner. Strong case management and documentation skills, an ability to manage files and related paperwork in a timely and accurate manner, and an ability to manage program resources are critical.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Sciences (Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, mental health, and education) preferred.
3-5 years’ experience working in Human or Social Services
1 year working directly with families with children in-home or in group settings, case management or service coordination experience.
A solid understanding of and/or experience in supervising and motivating staff, as well as providing support to staff in stressful work environments.
Experience in early childhood prevention services
Experience with providing family services that embrace the concepts of family-centered, strength based, culturally sensitive- service provision

Nice To Haves

Home visitation experience preferred.
Knowledge of parent-child attachment, maternal-infant health and dynamics of child abuse and neglect preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide supervision to a team of Family Support Specialists ensuring that children and families receive quality services, and the program meets expectations for the agency, funders, and the national Healthy Families America standards.
Facilitate weekly 1.5-2-hour supervision sessions.
Ensure that home visiting documentation is completed accurately and submitted in accordance with program policies.
Monitor Family Support Specialists caseloads and home visit completion rates.
Observe each FSS’s in home visits at least semiannually and provide feedback that encourages professional development.
Provide reflective supervision to FSS’s to support their work with challenging families and enhance their abilities.
Develop and implement training plans and ensure staff are meeting the Healthy America training requirements.
Provide annual evaluations.
Ensure grant requirements and program outcomes are being met.
Conduct team building activities.
Manage individual grant budget.
Attend community meetings.