Bilingual Family Support Worker

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence.  We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime. 

The Healthy Families – Staten Island program’s goals are to build and sustain community partnerships to systematically engage overburdened families in home visiting services prenatally or at birth, to cultivate and strengthen nurturing parent-child relationships, to promote healthy childhood growth and development, and enhance family functioning by reducing risk and building protective factors. 

The Bilingual Family Support Worker/Specialist is responsible for conducting weekly home visits to prenatal and new parents on Staten Island.

Job Responsibilities:

• Providing regular home visits to parents/caregivers
• Initiating and maintaining regular contact with families, primarily in the homes.
• Establishing a trusting relationship with families; involving the family or other support systems in the individual's treatment; welcoming all interested family members in home visits, and work to engage fathers (or father-figures) in particular.
• Ensuring families are seeing at the frequency prescribed by the model and per supervisor’s guidance. Families are offered weekly home visits for a minimum of six months after the birth of the baby. Home visits typically run 50-60 minutes. Upon meeting the defined criteria for family functioning, visit frequency is reduced to biweekly visits, monthly visits, and quarterly visits and services are tapered off over time. During times of crisis families may be seen 2 or more times in a week.
• Providing prenatal and other health education
• Assisting to strengthen parent-child relationships
• Assisting parents to improve their skills to optimize the home environment for the child’s well-being and safety
  

   

  The New York Foundling is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse employee population, the Foundling will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

Organizational expectations include:

• Regular and punctual time and attendance, and adherence to The Foundling's and your department’s specific time and attendance policies and protocol.
• Consistent demonstrated commitment to The Foundling's BHAG, mission, vision and values (Compassion, Dignity, Family and Community, Diversity, Excellence).
• Adherence to The Foundling's employee policies, Code of Conduct and applicable rules, laws, regulations or bargaining agreements.
• Appropriate engagement with support departments to ensure appropriate and timely hiring, performance management, investigation, discipline, suspension, and restructuring decisions concerning direct reports. Regular supervision and performance evaluation of direct reports.
• Any other duties and/or tasks that may be assigned.

• Must hold a high school diploma/GED or equivalent

  Bilingual required (English/Spanish) 

  Valid NYS Driver’s License