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Your Specific Responsibilities:
Family Support & Engagement Specialist - Healthy Families Hendry/Glades – LaBelle Site.
This is a home visiting position working with families, according to standards set by Healthy
Families Florida. This position is responsible for initiating and maintaining regular and long-term
contact/support with families served through the Healthy Families Hendry/Glades Program. Provides
intensive, home-based services that are family centered, strength-based, and directed at
establishing trusting relationships. Incumbent will have access to records containing social
security numbers in the performance of job duties.
The Family Support Specialist (FSES) is responsible for conducting regular home visits using a
specific curriculum; reviewing and providing tools and education on parenting, child development
and child and home safety; completing child developmental and various parent screens; modeling and
facilitating positive parent-child interactions using curriculum; helping families set and achieve
goals; assessing safety in the home environment; improving the family support system, and
increasing the parent's ability to problem solve and assume the role of advocate for themselves and
their children, in accordance with program guidelines.
Planning, preparing for, and scheduling home visits; client and collateral contacts.
Linking families to community resources and building relationships with the family, peers, and the
community; maintaining a working knowledge of and positive relationship with community resources.
Completes proper and timely documentation, data collection, and data entry related to family
services, per program guidelines.
Attends orientation, basic trainig, intense pre-service training and ongoing in-service training;
participates in required weekly supervision; attends team meetings; and participates in
outreach/community events to promote the program and agency.
Performs related work as required.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• The ability to work with children and families in their home environment, work independently and
stay on task, organize/coordinate work assignments, open and check emails daily, use Microsoft
Office computer programs and online data systems, actively listen and effectively communicate,
establish trusting relationships, work with culturally diverse families, establish and maintain
professional relationships, maintain professional boundaries, accept individual differences, adapt
to change, travel throughout Hendry and Glades Counties, and maintain a flexible schedule to meet
the needs of participants served.
• Knowledge of infant and child development.
• Willingness to engage in building reflective capacity.
Qualifications:
• A high school diploma or GED plus one year of experience working with children or families in a
social service, health/medical, nursing, child development, or childcare setting.
• Must possess a valid Florida Driver's License or obtain one within 30 days.
• Must have reliable transportation and ability to travel between multiple work sites and adjust
work schedule.
Florida Department of Health Mission, Vision, and Values:
Mission:
To protect, promote & improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county
& community efforts.
Vision:
To be the Healthiest State in the Nation.
Family Support & Engagement Specialist - Healthy Families Hendry/Glades – LaBelle Site.
This is a home visiting position working with families, according to standards set by Healthy
Families Florida. This position is responsible for initiating and maintaining regular and long-term
contact/support with families served through the Healthy Families Hendry/Glades Program. Provides
intensive, home-based services that are family centered, strength-based, and directed at
establishing trusting relationships. Incumbent will have access to records containing social
security numbers in the performance of job duties.
The Family Support Specialist (FSES) is responsible for conducting regular home visits using a
specific curriculum; reviewing and providing tools and education on parenting, child development
and child and home safety; completing child developmental and various parent screens; modeling and
facilitating positive parent-child interactions using curriculum; helping families set and achieve
goals; assessing safety in the home environment; improving the family support system, and
increasing the parent's ability to problem solve and assume the role of advocate for themselves and
their children, in accordance with program guidelines.
Planning, preparing for, and scheduling home visits; client and collateral contacts.
Linking families to community resources and building relationships with the family, peers, and the
community; maintaining a working knowledge of and positive relationship with community resources.
Completes proper and timely documentation, data collection, and data entry related to family
services, per program guidelines.
Attends orientation, basic trainig, intense pre-service training and ongoing in-service training;
participates in required weekly supervision; attends team meetings; and participates in
outreach/community events to promote the program and agency.
Performs related work as required.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• The ability to work with children and families in their home environment, work independently and
stay on task, organize/coordinate work assignments, open and check emails daily, use Microsoft
Office computer programs and online data systems, actively listen and effectively communicate,
establish trusting relationships, work with culturally diverse families, establish and maintain
professional relationships, maintain professional boundaries, accept individual differences, adapt
to change, travel throughout Hendry and Glades Counties, and maintain a flexible schedule to meet
the needs of participants served.
• Knowledge of infant and child development.
• Willingness to engage in building reflective capacity.
Qualifications:
• A high school diploma or GED plus one year of experience working with children or families in a
social service, health/medical, nursing, child development, or childcare setting.
• Must possess a valid Florida Driver's License or obtain one within 30 days.
• Must have reliable transportation and ability to travel between multiple work sites and adjust
work schedule.
Florida Department of Health Mission, Vision, and Values:
Mission:
To protect, promote & improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county
& community efforts.
Vision:
To be the Healthiest State in the Nation.