Nurse-Family Partnership Public Health Nurse Home Visitor

Nurse-Family Partnership Public Health Nurse Home Visitor

PHMC is proud to be a leader in public health. The Nurse-Family Partnership Public Health Nurse Home Visitor (NFP NHV) is responsible for providing comprehensive nursing services to first-time pregnant people and their families eligible for the NFP Program in Philadelphia. We are looking for compassionate and motivated nurses to work with families towards our shared goals.

The Nurse-Family Partnership Public Health Nurse Home Visitor (NFP NHV) is responsible for providing comprehensive nursing services to first-time pregnant people and their families eligible for the NFP Program in Philadelphia. The NFP NHV maintains the highest standards in clinical practice and adheres to the national Nurse-Family Partnership model. NFP succeeds by having specially educated nurses regularly visit first-time parents, starting early in the pregnancy and continuing until the child's second birthday.

NFP NHVs are pivotal in supporting families to meet their life goals. Our goal is that all children are healthy, families thrive, communities prosper, and the cycle of poverty is broken. The NHV reports to the NFP Nurse Supervisor and works in collaboration with other nurse home visitors, administrators, and senior staff to build and improve the strengths-based, client-centered culture. The Philadelphia Nurse-Family Partnership is a program of the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC), a nonprofit organization working to strengthen community health through quality, compassionate, and collaborative nurse-led care. NHVs split their time between NNCC's West Philadelphia office (4601 Market Street) and field work in the homes and communities of families served.

Responsibilities include completing all required NFP and NNCC education, facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN) training, providing regularly scheduled in-home visits and telehealth visits with clients, building and maintaining a caseload of 25 active clients within 9-12 months of employment, developing therapeutic relationships with clients utilizing concepts and processes from motivational interviewing, reflective listening, and Facilitating Attuned Interaction (FAN), planning home visits in accordance with client goals and NFP outcomes, supporting the achievement of client-identified goals through one-on-one education, active listening, screening, and referral processes to community resources, supporting the policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards of NFP and NNCC, adhering to ANA and PA nursing process and standards, code of ethics, HIPAA confidentiality standards, and the NFP model of home visitation, contributing to and participating in clinical case conferences and professional development meetings, meeting weekly with the NFP supervisor for clinical reflective supervision, utilizing the nursing process to assess, plan, and document physical, emotional, social, and environmental needs of clients and their families as they relate to the NFP domains, scheduling joint home visits with NFP Supervisor every four months (3 times a year), consulting and collaborating with other professionals involved in providing services to clients and their families, collaborating with outreach staff regarding community referral sources and disposition of referrals to the NFP program, contributing to a positive work environment that enables all staff to function at their highest potential, providing timely documentation to data entry staff for input, reviewing documentation and data system reports entered in state, local, and national databases for accuracy, uniformity, and completeness, commitment to serving the greater good of their communities and appreciating the public health implications, recognizing the role of race, income, age, immigration status, and other individualities in shaping health inequalities, and other responsibilities as needed.

Skills include being detail-oriented, having strong time management and self-directional skills, possessing professional verbal and writing communication skills, having strong documentation and computer skills, being able to work collaboratively with professionals, families, and community partners, being able to build and maintain relationships with a diverse group of clients over a period of time, being open to feedback, reflecting on their own responses to clients and work situations, and using supervision to grow, holding a growth mindset, recognizing the capacity for individuals to learn, develop, and change over time.

Highly desired skills include demonstrating commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment, being open and adaptive to change, having interest in special projects as needed, and being bilingual (Spanish/English preferred).

Qualifications include current Pennsylvania nursing licensure in good standing, work or student experience in public health, maternal-child health, mental health/behavioral health, or related field such as Early Childhood services in community settings, a new BSN nurse will be considered, a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from an Accredited University, and current CPR/BLS certification.