Family Support Worker - Healthy Families

Access: Supports for Living; City of Middletown (NY); On-site; USD 23,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Access: Supports for Living is seeking a Family Support Worker in Middletown, NY. The role involves delivering weekly educational home visits to participants and their families enrolled in the Healthy Families program, supporting parent-child relationships and tracking child development.

The position requires bilingual English and Spanish language skills, experience with families and children, and the ability to engage families to encourage ongoing participation.

Qualifications

• Weekly educational home visits to participants and their families.
• Promote positive parent-child relationships and health outcomes for children.
• Ability to engage families quickly and retain participation in the program.

Responsibilities

• Provide weekly educational home visits to participants and their families.
• Form trusting and effective relationships with consumers.
• Assist consumers with positive parent child relationships and positive health outcomes for the child, including medical issues, and any other specific issues that need to be addressed.
• Track child development.
• Maintain case documentation including progress notes.
• Work effectively as part of a service team and with community resources on behalf of consumers

Skills

Bilingual English & Spanish

Child development knowledge

Experience with parents and children

Job description

Do Work That Matters. In a Culture That Means It.

Be part of a team that values connection, accountability, and real impact.

Why Access?

Because how we work matters just as much as what we do. At Access, our Culture Playbook isn’t a poster on the wall – it’s how we show up for each other and for the people we support.

You’ll Be Part Of a Team That Is

• Clear about expectations
• Supportive and accountable
• Focused on outcomes that matter to people.

And committed to helping people live the healthiest and fullest lives possible – while making sure out staff can do the same.

Location: Middletown, NY

Pay Rate: $20.35 per hour

Hours: 40 hours per week, flexible around program needs.

Overview Of Primary Responsibilities

The Family Support Worker provides weekly educational home-visiting services to participants and their families who are enrolled in the Healthy Families program. The FSW has to quickly engage families in the program and retain their participation in the program. The FSW is responsible for teaching a research based curriculum based on the learning style of each individual family. The FSW supports and promotes the parent child relationships and promotes positive health outcomes for the targets child by tracking development, immunizations, well baby visits, and emergency visits. The FSW will also conduct developmental screens with the family to assess where the target child is developmentally.

Primary Functions

• Provide weekly educational home visits to participants and their families.
• Form trusting and effective relationships with consumers.
• Assist consumers with positive parent child relationships and positive health outcomes for the child, including medical issues, and any other specific issues that need to be addressed.
• Track child development.
• Maintain case documentation including progress notes.
• Work effectively as part of a service team and with community resources on behalf of consumers

Additional Functional / Organizational Support

• Attend workshops and training to enhance skills.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications And Attributes

• Bilingual English and Spanish speaking is preferred

Education And Experience

• Experience or knowledge in child development.
• Experience working with parents and children.

Physical Characteristics

• These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to perform the job's essential functions successfully. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions of the position, which are reviewed in each case.
• Must be capable to sit or stand in front of a computer for long-periods of time
• Able to work in open space floor plan
• Must be capable to move throughout work day and follow people served throughout community
• Work alongside co-workers within 3 feet
• Must be able to move in tight spaces
• Occasional lifting of > _25+ pounds

An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and Veterans