Specialist-Healthy Steps - Required - Bilingual Spanish

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Position Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Specialist-Healthy Steps.


In this role, the successful candidate Working in collaboration with the Pediatric care team, the bilingual English-Spanish Child Development Specialist provides support for families and children. The Child Development Specialist provides support to facilitate healthy development, self-regulation skills, and family resiliency. In addition, the Child Development Specialist will conduct child development assessments and provide child development guidance to parents and other primary care givers at well child visits with the goal of facilitating childrens healthy growth and development.
The Child Development Specialist works primarily in Pediatrics and collaborates to deliver a new model of care that screens children and their families and connects them with specialized services early on.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conducts office visits and developmental screenings in collaboration with the pediatric care team.
• Works closely with the pediatric team as a resource for developmental and parenting concerns.
• Facilitates parents/caregivers education and mental wellness groups.
• Participates in reflective supervision meetings.
• Provides anticipatory guidance to parents and other primary caregivers around common concerns such as early learning, fussiness, sleep, feeding, discipline, etc.
• Documents all patient activity and care coordination in patient record and other appropriate data systems.
• Provides referrals and tracks follow-up, as appropriate, to help families make connections to services when a delay or concern is identified.
• Works closely with the pediatric providers around care coordination, goal setting, counseling, coaching and education about key aspect of a child's development.

Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify you must have a Masters degree in nursing, psychology, counseling, or social work required.
Minimum 2 years' of experience with parenting, child development, social work or human service work.
Bilingual in Spanish and English is required. Depending on the work site, either language combination can be required. English proficiency (speaking and writing) required. Spanish/Mandarin fluency required; written Spanish/Mandarin proficiency a big plus..


Preferred Licenses: Licensed Social Worker - NYS

Preferred Qualifications:
Strong preference given to licensed and currently registered to practice nursing, psychology, counseling, or social work in New York State.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Demonstrated expertise in child development issues.
Demonstrated commitment to working with underserved populations in a community setting.
Must be empathic, supportive and patient.
Strong motivational interviewing skills.
Ability to work with people of many cultures.
Ability to take initiative and willingness to learn.
Ability to work well both in teams and independently.
Ability to collect and enter data for program management, evaluation and reporting purposes

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.


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Family Health Centers at NYU Langone is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration. We require applications to be completed online.


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NYU Langone Health provides a salary range to comply with the New York state Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $69,071.97 - $73,000 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

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