Family Support Worker – Bilingual English/Spanish

Description Looking for a rewarding career that makes a difference in children’s lives? Look no further and join the team at Meeting Street! Meeting Street is a special place of learning, where children of all abilities have the opportunities to reach their fullest potential.

Full-time employees receive

Competitive Pay Generous PTO 13 paid holidays Medical, dental, vision and MORE Meeting Street is currently looking for a Family Support Worker (Bilingual English/Spanish) for Healthy Families America working 40 hours weekly.

Duties

Provide critical support to pregnant women and families with children under the age of 5. Conduct home visits to assess the needs of families, offer guidance, and provide family-centered, strength-based interventions directed at establishing a trusting relationship within families to optimize parent/child relationships. Work directly with Spanish-speaking and English-speaking families with young children to provide family-centered, strength-based interventions directed at establishing a trusting relationship within the family to optimize parent/child relationships. Provide curriculum-based prenatal health and early childhood health and development education to families to promote the child’s well-being and safety. Assess additional needs or crisis situations and make referrals to other community resources to support the overall health, safety, and well-being of the family. Maintain a caseload of families by coordinating meetings directly with them in a variety of formats to meet them where they are, including by phone, virtual video chat or in-person. Thoroughly and objectively document the functioning status of families and report data within program deadlines. Meeting Street believes the dignity of each person is paramount. We recognize that our community’s future strength rests firmly on our commitment to our values of respect, compassion, integrity, inclusivity, and excellence. To uphold these commitments, we expect all employees to recognize and properly respond to racism and other forms of injustice.

It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, transfer and promote employees, and to ensure that all other employment practices (i.e. salary and benefits administration, education and training programs, and social and recreational programs) are administered without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, gender, sexual preference or orientation, gender expression or identity, age, national origin or ancestry, legally recognized disability, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, military status, socioeconomic background, homelessness or any other characteristic or category protected by law. It is also our policy to protect employees and applicants from any coercion, retaliation or discrimination for filing a complaint or assisting in any investigation pursuant to the equal opportunity laws.

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