Healthy Families Home Visitor - Must be fluent in Arabic
Location: Chelsea Massachusetts
Description: Massachusetts General Hospital (GHC) is presently looking of Healthy Families Home Visitor - Must be fluent in Arabic right now, this career will be placed in Massachusetts. For complete informations about this career opportunity kindly read the description below. Responsibilities
The Healthy Families Home Visitor is responsible for providing in hom! e long-term support, education, and advocacy, for high risk parents of newborns in Chelsea. The program supports mothers and fathers, within their cultural context, to develop confidence in their role and ability to parent in the midst of the multiple complex factors in their lives. The role reports to the Healthy Beginnings Clinical Supervisor and Manager and works with other Healthy Families Home Visitors as well as Pediatric Healthy Steps Coordinators.
Conduct consistent home visits to high risk pregnant women and parents of newborns who are patients of MGH Chelsea, providing emotional support and education. The home visits will be done in line with the Healthy Families model guidelines. The home visits will emphasize the importance of healthy attachment while working on the protective factors of resiliency, structure, knowledge of child development and reduction of social isolation.
Develop trusting relationships by recognizing parents’ strengths, honorin! g cultural and familial traditions, and encouraging parents’! feelings of self-confidence.
Act as a role model for parenting and basic life skills, such as nurturing, bonding, playing comforting, appropriate discipline, communicating clearly, handling and expressing feelings, and exploring options for problem solving.
Promote healthy parent-child attachment, nurturing and bonding.
Reduce mothers’ social isolation by assisting with access to community resources
Participate in weekly supervision with supervisor to review cases and participate in monthly group supervision meetings with the program team to brainstorm particularly challenging cases and to review program updates.
Document parent and child contact and progress in electronic medical record and in ETO program data base.
Attend ongoing trainings and Community Health Improvement team and Pediatric team meetings.
Work closely with other members of Community Health Improvement and the Ob/Gyn Unit, Mental Health Department and the Pediatric Department! , collaborating on cases, feeding back information and making cross referrals.
Qualifications
High School or equivalent degree requir Must be empathic, supportive and patient High School or equivalent degree required.
Bi-lingual (Arabic/English). Ability to speak French as well a plus. Must be able to communicate competently in English.
Ability to work with people of many cultures
Ability to take initiative and willingness to learn
Experience with parenting, child development or with human service work
Demonstrated commitment to helping underserved people.
Data base skills.
Able to provide own transportation
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If you were eligible to this career, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Massachusetts General Hospital (GHC).
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This career starts available on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:12:54 GMT
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