HFA Family Support

South Arkansas Regional Hospital
US - Arkansas - El Dorado
January 27, 2025

Position Summary

Healthy Families America (HFA) helps families address challenges like single parenthood, low income, mental health issues, substance abuse or child and spousal abuse by building on strengths (and not focusing on weaknesses).
The Family Recourse Specialist (FRS) is responsible for completing the Parent Survey (PS) with parents (prenatally and/or immediately after birth of their child) to determine eligibility for home visitation services and to connect the family with needed resources and referrals.
The FRS will use reflective practice techniques in order to engage parent and explain the home visiting services to interested parents.
The FRS must have good writing skills in order to complete the PS.
If the family does not enter the program, the FRS will make referrals to the appropriate community based agencies, depending on the family's needs.
The visits start prenatally, or within the first three months after a child's birth and can continue through the first three to five years of life.
The Family Support Specialist (FSS) is responsible for initiating and maintaining regular and long-term (up to five years) contact/support with families.
The FFS will provide HFA home visits and at the onset of services is responsible for completing the Family Resilience and Opportunities for Growth (FROG) Scale with parents (prenatally and/or immediately after the birth of their child) to determine risk and resiliency factors.
These activities will occur primarily within the family's home; each visit should last for at least one hour.
The interventions should be family-centered, strength-based, and directed at:
establishing a trusting relationship; assisting in strengthening the parent-child relationship; assisting parents in improving their skills to optimize the home environment; improving the family support system; and increasing the family's ability to problem solve and assume the role of advocate for themselves and their children.
The activities may also include identifying and referring for contact/appointments at other supportive agencies, including health care appointments.
The FSS will also be responsible for assisting the family in establishing goals and a plan for accomplishment of those goals, as well as the assessment of the normal growth and development of the focus child.

Qualifications/Experience

Education:

Minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent.
College degree preferred.

Experience:

Experience in working with or providing services to children and families.

A working knowledge and understanding of patient/client confidentiality issues and HIPAA compliance/regulations are essential.

Other Skills:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out moderately-complex, multi-step instructions and make appropriate independent decisions as necessary.

Licenses/Certificate:

Department Specific

Essential Job Functions

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each of the following Essential Duties satisfactorily.
Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the Essential Duties of the position, provided it does not create undue hardship on SARH.
Uphold and demonstrate "We Care" values in everyday activities and behavior
Provide the required number of home visits and ensure all documentation, and required training is completed accurately and in a timely fashion.
Balances caseloads according to the model to ensure quality and productivity.
Possess an ability to establish trusting relationships with children and families.
Acceptance of individual differences, and humility to work with culturally diverse families.
Willingness to engage in building, reflective capacity (e.g., capacity for introspection, communicating awareness of self in relation to others, and recognizing value of supervision).
Performs additional tasks as assigned

This job description is a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all the possible job responsibilities, tasks, and duties you may be asked to perform when they are assigned.

Read the full job description and apply online on the recuiter's web-site

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