Maternal Child Health Home Visitor

This position is located in Gallatin City-County Health Department and performs duties that support the vision, mission and goals of the Department. This position is responsible for providing evidenced-based home visiting services within the City-County Health Department to promote and maintain individual, group, and community health. This position's duties will include a heavy emphasis on home visits for high-risk families to: assess health issues; monitor growth and development of infants and children; provide education for healthy pregnancies; provide lactation and postnatal education; monitor clients and develop plans of care; and complete required documentation. Works with community health care professionals, families, partner organizations, and others to ensure overall well-being of clients; develops treatment plans and provides referrals to community resources; and represents clients as an advocate with other social service agencies. Reviews caseloads and statistics to assess program success and determine how to improve health care to high-risk families. Prepares various reports and provides presentations. Other duties may include work in a variety of disease prevention and health promotion programs, as well as outreach to the public and contributing to departmental response to public health emergencies. Work requires home visits to high-risk families that may involve contentious situations and exposure to the risk of contagious diseases. This position reports to the Maternal Child Health Services Group Manager and does not supervise other County personnel. This position is grant funded.

Each duty checked below makes up at least 20% of the job, and all other functions are included in Other Duties as Assigned. All duties below are essential functions unless otherwise indicated.

HOME VISITS

• Provides family support to high risk families in the County referred to the Healthy Gallatin Home Visiting Program in collaboration with the Public Health Nurses and Father Engagement Specialist. As a Social Worker, the position provides a variety of professional consultation, referral, education, and support services.

• Assesses family needs based on historical and current information. Develops treatment plans and establishes a plan with goals, objectives and activities that can be accomplished with support.

• Makes referrals to other community resource agencies and specialists as appropriate.

• Ensures all paperwork is completed, documentation is submitted and all necessary family information is gathered.

• Establishes partnerships with families as a service provider and advocate. Builds trust in the relationship between family members and the incumbent.

• Represents the family as an advocate with other social service agencies to coordinate services.

• Follows up with clients to ensure appropriate services have been obtained, to determine progress in following treatment plans, and to provide additional education and support.

• Serves as a liaison between the Health Department and other community service programs and providers.

• Reviews caseloads, files, statistics and summaries associated with the program to identify success, trends, issues of concern and opportunities to provide improved and/or more comprehensive services to high risk families.

• Develops and conducts presentations on social service and health department programs and resources to a variety of audiences within the community.

• Responds to crises on an as-needed basis by assisting family members in resolving problems and de-escalating critical situations and events.

• Completes required documentation in an accurate and timely manner for the purpose of keeping current and progressive data related to needs, efforts, progress, outcome, and communication with family. Maintains current records for multiple programs.

COMMUNITY HEALTH

• Enhances community health through participation in a wide variety of local and countywide activities that promote partnerships, collaboration and education associated with effective public health resources and services.

• Teaches classes and makes public presentations on topics such as prenatal care, breastfeeding, and parenting.

• Collaborates with other organizations and agencies to provide comprehensive health services to individual clients, as well to develop population-based services.

• Participates on community boards and committees as a health care professional.

• Provides information regarding vaccinations to patient or parent, including vaccines required for school entrance.

• Keeps accurate records of immunizations or assists in accessing records as needed.

• Promotes immunizations through public education and social media when needed.

FETAL, INFANT, CHILD & MATERNAL MORTALITY REVIEW PROGRAM (FICMMR)

• Manages and coordinates the activities of the FICMMR team, according to guidelines established by DPHHS.

• Recruits and maintains multi-disciplinary team membership.

• Receives reports of fetal, infant or child deaths, and seeks reports from appropriate team members.

• Facilitates the reviews to gain a complete and accurate understanding of the circumstances leading to the death. Identify any modifiable risk factors, gaps or barriers the team can address focusing on prevention.

• Engage and utilize your team (or health department staff) to help select, plan, deliver and evaluate best practice, injury prevention activities or strategies to address preventable deaths.

OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED

• Perform a variety of other duties as assigned by supervisor. This includes coordinating special projects and events, system and grant research and analysis, representing the profession and the County at meetings, conferences, and special events, attending continuing education and training as required and accounting of time electronically at the end of the workweek.

• If the County Commission proclaims a local emergency due to an actual or threatened disaster such as an earthquake, fire, riot, flood, etc., County employees may be required to provide services during the emergency and for a subsequent period of assessment and recovery.

This work requires knowledge of: the principles and practices, theories and concepts of the field of social work, human behavior and child development, mental health, available community resources and services, program management; record keeping and understand the philosophy of family support. The incumbent is required to have knowledge of parenting education; crisis intervention strategies; group facilitation; education methods and techniques and the working knowledge of healthy parent child interaction and child development and be able to demonstrate skill in utilizing this knowledge. This person must have good problem solving skills; be able to make independent determinations and have the ability to recognize the need for professional intervention; make appropriate recommendations to the team and work as part of a team. In addition, this person must be able to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing, basic computer skills are also needed. The required knowledge, skills and abilities are typically acquired through a combination of education and experience equivalent to a bachelor's degree in social work, Social Services, or a related field, and two (2) years of job-related work experience.  The ability to translate or use devices to translate for Spanish speaking families is preferred but now required.

This position must possess a valid driver's license, provide own transportation to conduct out of office job duties (mileage reimbursement provided under the County policy), and to be insurable under the County's liability policies.

As a condition of hire, the final candidate will be required to successfully pass a criminal history check and background investigation.

To apply for this position please be prepared to attach the following documents listed below:

• Cover Letter

• Resume

• Three (3) work references

Gallatin County does not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, political ideas, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, or any other protected class status in violation of any applicable law.