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Children's Home Society of Florida

Since opening our doors in 1902, CHS became a part of Florida's history.  

CHS has been committed to growing and evolving to provide the right services and solutions to address the needs of children and families throughout the changing times.  Every day, our team works with parents and kids to empower them and encourage them. With innovative technology solutions and a dedicated, experienced team throughout the state, we’re changing the face of foster care and positively impacting children and families’ lives for generations to come. 

Join our team to continue to do good and create history serving Florida's children and families!

The Home Visitor provides support and assistance to optimize the home environment for the physical, mental and emotional well-being of children. Home Visitors empower families to function successfully by assisting in strengthening the parent-child relationship by improving parenting skills, reducing family stress, and meeting the needs of parents to promote the healthy growth and development of their children. Overall, the Home Visitor contributes to the CHS high performance culture by exhibiting our values and providing quality results that position CHS as the leader in delivering proactive behavioral health, case management, community and early childhood solutions for children and families. 

WHY JOIN CHS?

• Uplifting mission-driven work culture
• Make an impact in your community and become a part of Florida's history!
• Growth and professional development opportunities
• Great benefits package, including generous paid time off and holidays

Primary Job Functions

1. Healthy Start Program:

• Establish a trusting relationship with at risk-families by initiating and maintaining regular client contact.
• Provide one-on-one support to families through intensive home visitation, group facilitation, and enhanced case management services.
• Administer educational, developmentally focused home visit lessons and activities.
• Facilitate access to community resources.
• Create and maintain client case records and document activities per program requirements.
• Perform data entry into applicable databases in a timely and accurate manner.
• Develop comprehensive Family Goal Plans for each client that clearly identifies goals, objectives and service needs.
• Conduct home visits on at least a monthly basis and maintain a minimum of 35-40 monthly-completed home visits for active clients as required.
• Assist in strengthening parent-child interaction by teaching positive parenting skills, providing breastfeeding support and education, encouraging healthy relationships, providing smoking cessation, and educating families regarding child development and age-appropriate milestones.
• Meet with supervisor on a monthly basis to evaluate client status.
• Perform all job functions as set forth by the Healthy Start contractual requirements to ensure the delivery of quality services.

2.  Contribute to an engaging, positive work environment.

• Participate actively in departmental meetings, training and education, as well as the quality management process.
• Comply with CHS policies, procedures, code of conduct, contracts and other legal obligations.
• Assist with training other team members and providing back up when necessary.
• Pick up projects on the fly; perform other duties as assigned from time to time.
• Demonstrate the CHS Common Bond Values in the performance of all job duties.

Job Qualifications

Education, Licenses, Certifications & Experience :

• Associate’s degree from an accredited university and two years’ experience working with young children and families in a human services or early childhood education setting;
• OR, Bachelor's degree in Child Development, Education, or Social Sciences from an accredited university.
• With an Associate’s degree, and one year experience working with young children and families in a human services or early childhood education setting
• Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Florida Driver’s License within 30 days from hire with daily access to a reliable and insured vehicle, required.

Competencies

Knowledge of:

• VARIOUS COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Skills and Proficiency in:

• Planning, project management, organization and time management
• Oral and written communication, including presentation and platform
• Collaboration, teamwork, consulting, facilitation, coaching and mentoring
• Computer systems and MS Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook
• Bilingual Spanish Preferred 

Ability to:

• Interact effectively with children/families from diverse backgrounds.
• Set appropriate limits and boundaries with clients; act decisively to protect clients, when necessary.
• Identify and understand environmental stressors.
• Build trusting relationships with clients.
• Make home visits with personal vehicle.
• Observe and report accurately on the functioning of individuals and families.
• Perform at a high level of autonomy, with general supervision.
• Be aware of social, economic, cultural and environmental factors in the resolution of family and personal issues.
• Commit to providing high customer satisfaction with positive service delivery results.
• Meet critical deadlines, while maintaining attention to detail, accuracy and quality.
• Demonstrate the behaviors of our CHS Common Bond Values.
• Be energetic, passionate and adaptable with a deep commitment to social service, empathy for children and families and a positive approach to embracing and managing change

All applicants are subject to background screening through the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). For more information, visit https://info.flclearinghouse.com

Together, good can be done.