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Interdisciplinary New Parent Support Home Visitor
Commander, Navy Installations Command · Posted 1 days ago
On-siteGroton, CT$40.4 – $45.8/hrApply by Jun 6, 2026Social ScienceINFJINFPINTJINTPOperationsTransportation
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This position is assigned to the Installation Family Readiness Division; Fleet and Family Support Program (FFSP) Section; Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC). CNIC is an Echelon II activity directly reporting to the Chief of Navy Operations (CNO). The mission of the FFSP is to provide information and referral, education and training, primary prevention, counseling and advocacy to facilitate achieving operational readiness and personal and family self-sufficiency.
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 and 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.
- →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 Secretary of Defense and/or CNIC New Parent Support Program standardized home visitation curriculum designed to build and enhance strengths that individuals and families bring to the parenting role.
- →Provides parenting education and coaching via home visitation or in a classroom setting to include: positive 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.
- →Conducts 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.
- →When deemed appropriate, serves as a consultant for Clinical Case Staff Meeting cases that involve families with children from birth to three years of age.
- →Training & Community Liaison 20% Provides education and training for CAPS/MTF staff, local commands, and community on topics such as mission and goals of NPSP program, child abuse and neglect, family violence dynamics, and other related subjects as appropriate.
- →Upon supervisory approval and when appropriate, participates in command briefings/trainings to all levels of command, community agencies, and community members.
- →Markets the NPSP through a variety of venues including but not limited to participating in orientation briefings, creating brochures to provide information on the NPSP, participation in special events such as Child Abuse Prevention month and Domestic Violence Awareness month.
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 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: 1138eaef-dfd8-47a2-93fd-dd76a9f8401c
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