Specialist-Healthy Steps -Spanish or Mandarin Required
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About The Position
Family Health Centers at NYU Langone, a designated Level 3 Medical Home, is the largest federally qualified health center network in New York State, and the second largest in the nation. It includes eight primary care sites, 40 school-based health centers and dental clinics, four day care centers, the nation's largest dental residency program, and New York State's largest behavioral health program. The network also includes 12 community medicine sites providing care to disenfranchised New Yorkers, comprehensive HIV services, chemical dependency programs, and a family support center that offers educational, vocational, and other social support programs. At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge. In this role, the successful candidate Working in collaboration with the pediatric care team, the bilingual English-Spanish Child Development Specialist provides support for families and children to facilitate healthy development, self-regulation skills, and family resiliency. In addition, the Child Development Specialist conducts child development assessments and provides child development guidance to primary care givers at well child visits with the goal of facilitating children's healthy growth and development. The Specialist also delivers the PlayReadVIP intervention, an evidence-based parenting program that uses videotaping and developmentally-appropriate toys, books and resources to help parents utilize pretend play, shared reading, and daily routines as opportunities for strengthening early development and literacy. The Child Development Specialist works primarily in Pediatrics and collaborates to deliver a new model of care that screens children and their families and connects them with specialized services early on.
