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FFSP New Parent Support Home Visitor
Commander, Navy Installations Command · Posted 46 days ago
About the Role
The primary purpose of this position is to help young families develop skills to cope with stress, isolation, deployment, post-deployment reunions the everyday demands of parenthood and to prevent child maltreatment incidents. It offers comprehensive early intervention services that include maternal and infant health education, parent and child bonding techniques, positive parenting practices, child development, and child safety education.
What You'll Do
- →Parenting Education & Support Services (50%)Provides support services primarily through home visitation designed to provide psychosocial and educational support and training to expectant parents and parents with children from birth to 3 years of age who are identified as at-risk for child abuse or neglect.
- →Provides in-office intervention services for eligible participants who due to mission readiness priorities or other confirmed situational issues are unable to participate in home visitation services.
- →Recommends and develops effective service plans based on areas of need and/or risk determined through screening and assessment tools.
- →Collaborates with the family and appropriate agencies to develop methods to achieve prescribed goals and enhance successful parenting.
- →Provides narrative summaries and updates to service plans showing case progress and plan of action.Implements Office of the Security of Defense (OSD) and/or CNIC New Parent Support Program (NPSP) standardized home visitation curriculum designed to build and enhance strengths that individuals and families bring to the parenting role.
- →Provides parenting skills, promoting a healthy pregnancy, promoting positive parent-child attachment behaviors, recognizing newborn infant cues/behaviors, understanding behavior through the lens of child development and promoting overall healthy family functioning.Develops strategies that will enhance and support the needs and parenting challenges of fathers and their parent/child relationship.
- →Conduct fatherhood outreach efforts while collaborating with military and civilian stakeholders.Facilitates interactive playgroup to help teach parents about developmentally appropriate play and help children improve their social, cognitive and motor skills.
Requirements
- ✓Professional knowledge of, and skill in applying, a wide range of concepts, principles, methods and techniques used by Clinical Counselors acquired through completion of a degree from a program accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs or a degree that provides equivalent knowledge and/or experience in the behavioral or social science field.
- ✓OR Professional knowledge of, and skill in applying, a wide range of concepts, principles, methods and techniques used by social workers which they acquired through completion of a degree from an accredited school.
- ✓OR Professional knowledge of, and skill in applying, a wide range of concepts, principles, and methods of the patient care field sufficient to perform difficult but well-precedented assignments assessing the condition of patients, providing care, and advising on healthcare needs which they acquired through completion of a degree from an accredited school.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 0971ab7e-42d2-4577-a8e8-c92e15762404
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