HealthySteps Specialist

Parent Child Center; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 54,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

Parent Child Center seeks a HealthySteps Specialist to work in a pediatric/family practice setting. You will participate in team-based well-child visits, assess child development, and provide therapeutic interventions to address identified needs.

You’ll connect families to resources, support care coordination, and promote early learning and parenting guidance. You will collaborate with clinicians to support families between visits, lead caregiver groups when needed, and engage in CQI to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field.
• Experience in early childhood, pediatric setting, infant mental health counseling, or similar field.

Responsibilities

• Enroll families into HealthySteps program for birth through age 3.
• Assess child development, social-emotional, behavioral, and mental wellbeing with screenings.

Skills

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Child development knowledge

Pediatric setting

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Description

JOB SUMMARY

The Primary role of the HealthySteps Specialist is to function in a pediatric or family practice clinic as part of the interdisciplinary team where you will be involved in: team-based well-child visits; comprehensive assessment of a child (developmental, social-emotional, behavioral, mental, family protective and risk factors, and social determinants of health), including the use of evidence-based screenings; provision of therapeutic clinical interventions to address identified needs; connecting families to community resources; providing care coordination and system navigation; providing psycho-social support to the families between well-child visits; and providing positive parenting interventions, guidance and early learning resources.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Enroll new families into the HealthySteps program, targeting patient’s birth through age 3.
• Determination of tier based services after a comprehensive assessment of child’s development, social-emotional, behavioral and mental wellbeing at recommended intervals with evidence-based screenings.
• Meet with families at well-child visits with the physician/pediatric nurse practitioner or independently.
• Visit with family will include individualized clinical interventions to address problems that cause mental, emotional, behavioral, social and developmental difficulties with an emphasis on child and family strengths.
• Collaborate with health care team members to restore patient to optimum biopsychosocial functioning through the use of therapeutic clinical skills, case management, advocacy, and information and referral.
• Case management/care coordination: identifying quality resources and providing referrals and follow-up as appropriate to foster community connections, including work with other members of the ConnectFirst team.
• Facilitate/lead caregiver groups, staff resource fairs or other community events targeted at early childhood and young families as needed or as available, provide education/information to interdisciplinary team on infant mental health best practices.
• Utilize the Child Development Telephone Information Line for parenting advice and to coordinate parent communication and relationship.
• Support the clinic with the Reach Out and Read program (where applicable).
• Provide child behavioral and developmental information, guidance, and checkups for families, to develop confidence in their caregiving abilities.
• Establish and nurture a collaborative relationships among the caregivers, medical staff, and the HealthySteps team.
• Complete professional development related to the services provided for children birth through 3 and their and families.
• Engages in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives with supervisor and clinic implementation team to ensure HealthySteps model fidelity.
• Participate in monthly individual and/or group reflective consultations provided by the HealthySteps program.
• Demonstrates the agency’s values and supports the vision and mission of the organization.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors Degree
• Early childhood and child development, pediatric clinical setting, infant mental health counseling, or similar experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
• Master’s Degree (will consider 24 months of equivalent experience in lieu of a Master’s degree)
• Knowledge of and experience assessing the growth and development of infants and young children, parent-child relationships, child health, and family systems.
• Demonstrate ability to work on an interdisciplinary team and in a peer relationship with a medical provider or in a medical setting.
• Capacity to be reflective about work and roles.
• Ability to work independently.
• Understanding and honoring the values of integrity, collaboration, flexibility, growth/learning, and compassion that the HealthySteps team embraces.