Healthy Families Home Visiting Family Support Specialist

Kansas Children's Service League in Ottawa, Kansas is actively seeking a rational and positive full-time Healthy Families Home Visiting Family Support Specialist to build trusting relationships with families based on the Healthy Families America model. Do you enjoy assisting families that are in need of support? Are you ready to advance your career with a company that is committed to prospering the lives of children and families? If so, please keep reading about our supportive family services!
This support coordinator position earns a competitive hourly wage of up to $18.11 per hour. We provide excellent benefits and perks, including health insurance, PTO, sick leave, and vacation. If this sounds like the right support coordinator opportunity for you, apply today!
About Kansas Children's Service League
Our mission is to protect and promote the well-being of children. We work with children and their families to help them succeed and break neglect, abuse, and trauma cycles. We do this through health, safety, and educational outreach. Our programs help children and parents develop successful skills in their families, schools, and workplaces. We work to create and restore healthy parent-child relationships and pledge to serve through advocacy and community engagement. Stronger families start here!
We treat customers, partners, and each other with respect and strive to always build positive working relationships. Quality, competence, and courageous service are important in all we do. Our employees live up to these values and are key to our mission. For our amazing team, we offer a comprehensive full-time benefits package, rewarding work, and opportunities for growth and advancement!
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A HEALTHY FAMILIES HOME VISITING FAMILY SUPPORT SPECIALIST
As a support coordinator, your vital family services consist of visiting families in their homes to provide support in establishing positive home environments, promote strong attachments through the parent-child relationships, and encourage the well-being of children and families. Strong communication enables valuable guidance in the development of the Family Goal Plan where families are encouraged to achieve identified goals. Through this significant encouragement, you utilize reflective strategies with interpersonal skills that normalize, explore and wonder, and accentuate the positive to help strengthen parent-child relationships. Efficient organizational skills assist in adequately documenting observations of children and families through weekly notes of your home visits while implementing a research-based curriculum. With your excellent collaborative abilities, you meet weekly with your supervisor to reflect and review family interventions and documentation, assist with outreach through community fairs, and attend regular team and community meetings where team support is occasionally needed. Every day you feel critically important in positively growing Kansas families with your extensive support.
Healthy Families Home Visiting Family Support Specialist Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Experience working with or providing services to children and families

Are you a strong communicator, both verbal and written? Do you understand and accept cultural differences? Can you establish trusting relationships? Are you efficiently organized with superior time management? If yes, we want you on our team of offering supportive family services to the Kansas community!
HEALTHY FAMILIES HOME VISITING FAMILY SUPPORT SPECIALIST WORK SCHEDULE
Typically, our full-time support coordinator offers family services Monday through Friday during business hours with some occasional evenings and weekends as needed. This schedule supplies a satisfying work-life balance with active traveling for a continuous breath of fresh air.
ARE YOU READY TO JOIN OUR FAMILY SUPPORT TEAM?
If you feel you'll be perfect as our full-time Healthy Families Home Visiting Family Support Specialist, apply now using our initial 3-minute, mobile-friendly application.
KCSL requires all employees to be fully vaccinated by January 2022. Religious and medical exemptions are available. Are you vaccinated or plan on being vaccinated before employment?
Location: 66067
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