Senior Community Worker-Home Visiting Program-Spanish Skg. Required (Department Promotional Only) - County of San Mateo

The County of San Mateo Family Health Services Division is seeking one experienced and qualified Senior Community Worker - Spanish Speaking Required to join its Pediatric Home Visiting Program. Family Health Services focus on the health and well-being of infants, children, teens, young adults and parents. Services include supporting children with well-child check-ups, developmental screenings, support for children with special health needs, provide parenting support, home visits, vaccine clinics, lead assessments, health education, and prevention.
 
The candidate who fills this permanent vacancy will be part of the Pediatric Home Visiting Program that includes services for the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program and Promoting First Relationships Home Visiting Program. This Senior Community Worker will assist clients with linkages and assist with follow-up of medical care. The candidate will also provide a wide variety of advanced community services of a remedial, educational, and supportive nature for socially, economically or mentally disadvantaged persons, which may include group and individual instruction and counseling, needs assessment and plan development, outreach, and case management. In addition, the Senior Community Worker is expected to perform the most complex types of duties assigned to the class series, exercising a high level of autonomy, judgment, and initiative.
 
The Family Health Services Pediatric Home Visiting Program is implementing an evidence-based program that aims to promote the health of postpartum women and their babies, strengthen parent-child bonding, and create a healthy environment for the entire family by providing intensive home visiting services to families in San Mateo County.
 
The ideal candidate for the Senior Community Worker position has experience and/or possess  skills to successfully:
 

• Conduct home visits with clients to assess problems, assists with linkages to services, provide health information, and ensure that clients have received needed services.
• Work with an assigned caseload of children and families, identifying and documenting their health care needs, and linking them to needed services.
• Work within the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program and provide home visits and case management for those cases.
• Collaborate closely and provide outreach and other presentations to clinics and to the community for the prevention of Childhood Lead Poisoning.
• Actively participate in local community-based health fairs and other outreach events to promote the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program 
• Motivate and engage individuals toward stated goals.
• Expertise in helping clients learn to be self-sufficient.
• Work effectively with underserved, high-risk families.
• Problem-solve, make independent judgments, and work autonomously.
• Assume a leadership role in community health programs.
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Be flexible to adapting to a changing environment.
• Maintain healthy professional boundaries.
• Experience with Reflective Practice and Motivational Interviewing.
• Knowledge of, and familiarity with, the use of electronic health records (EHR) is preferred. 

Duties may include but not limited to:

• Conduct home and field visits to assess and monitor client needs and ensure adherence to individual care plans.
• Assess and monitor client needs and develop individual care/recovery/support plan based on the needs of the client.
• Prepare and/or coordinate the preparation of informational and outreach materials, basic correspondence and reports, and other documents regarding program activities.
• Assist clients in accessing services to support their needs around addressing personal, financial, employment, and/or family issues.
• Assist clients in a wide variety parent and other needs, such as completing applications and forms, budgeting, and navigating support service systems.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with community resources.
• Provide information and refer clients to appropriate social services agencies; research community resources for clients; work closely with other County staff to coordinate various functions of outreach and referrals.
• Perform outreach to provide education and information to individuals who may be at risk and unaware of services and/or prevention methods.
• Conduct outreach activities to community organizations to provide information about the program and resources and to secure health, welfare, educational, and other social service supportive programs on behalf of clients.
• Represent the division or section on internal and community committees and task forces as assigned representing the needs of the community or of individual clients; attends and participates in community events.
• Perform special assignments or projects. 
• Other duties as assigned.