Home Visitor - Healthy Start

Description

Brightpoint invites you to join our team of mission-driven staff who share a common vision: an equitable world where all children and families thrive in strong communities. As a leader in the human services sector for 140 years, we aim to advance the well-being of children by investing in families and strengthening communities through data-informed, collaborative, and preventative solutions.

The Healthy Start Home Visitor meets with expectant parents and families with young children in Dewitt and McLean Counties, providing strength-based, family-centered services, comprehensive assessment, and education. As a Home Visitor, you will develop safe and trusting relationships with expectant and new parents, helping them to expand their support networks, maximize access to needed services, and providing support and expertise as they successfully navigate the parenting journey.

Candidate qualifications:

• Associate's Degree in a human services field required; Bachelor's Degree preferred.

• One year of experience working with families with children under the age of 5 required.

• Valid driver's license, insurance, and a reliable vehicle required.

Job Responsibilities:

• Completes assessments with families to determine child/family needs, according to specified timelines.   

• Establishes trusting and nurturing relationships with clients/participants.  

• Provides observations of parent-child interactions, careful listening, and empathic responses and engages clients/participants in reflection on the developing parent-child relationship.  

• Assists clients/participants to expand their support systems by providing community networking/ advocacy for and with family members; provides information and assistance in locating and accessing community resources that support family well-being and ensures successful linkages to needed services, such as early intervention, mental health, social service supports, health care, etc.  

• Maintains positive working relationships with collateral partners, referring agencies and other community resources.  

• Assists families in establishing goals and creating a plan for accomplishment of those goals including resource identification.  

• Supports families who may have witnessed or experienced trauma, domestic violence, mental health issues, homelessness and/or substance abuse. When needed, develops safety plans for family well-being.   

• Completes required documentation, paperwork and data entry accurately and within designated timelines.  

Job details:

• Compensation: Hourly: Range is between $20-$21 per hour; offers are commensurate with experience and bilingual candidates may receive additional compensation. The salary range provided represents our current estimate for this role at the time of posting and is subject to change. The final salary will be determined based on a range of factors, including but not limited to, a candidate's relevant experience, education, qualifications, skills, certifications, and alignment with organizational needs. We are dedicated to fair and equitable compensation practices and are committed to fostering a diverse workforce while providing equal opportunities for all candidates.

• Benefits: Medical/dental/vision insurance, 3+ weeks paid time off in the first year including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day (PTO increases with tenure); 11 paid holidays, supplemental insurance options, 401(k) with match (more benefits details here). (

• Location: Hybrid (office-based/remote). This is not a fully remote position, but there are opportunities to work from home. Must be available to provide home- and community-based services, in-person, to program participants in Dewitt and McLean Counties of Central Illinois, and work from the home office in Bloomington, IL ( at least 3 times per week for in-person engagements with the team and supervisor. Case notes and other administrative tasks can be completed from home if desired.

• Schedule: Full-time, hourly. Monday - Friday, general business hours with some flexibility to provide evening availability as needed to accommodate client schedules.

• Student Loan Forgiveness: Brightpoint is an approved agency for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) ( .

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