Home Visitor

**HOME VISITOR**
**Westlock & Westlock County**

**70 Hours per week**

**The Position**:
Provide early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and in-home family support services.

Responsible for optimizing the home environment for the purpose of enhancing the physical and emotional well
- being of children (prenatally to 6 yrs old) and their families. Assist in the strengthening of caregiver-child relationships, promotion of healthy childhood growth and development outcomes, and encourage safe home environments. Services are provided in the home and are long-term, structured, family-centred and strengths
- based. Serve as a coach, giving support and encouragement to caregivers and their families, to help raise healthy children using a developmental approach that supports positive caregiver-child interactions and relationships.

**What you will do**:

- Working from your home, travel to families’ homes in Westlock and Westlock County to provide service
- Establish trusting relationships with clients, their family, and support network
- Assess strengths and needs in order to help create service plans and strategies to support the healthy development of the family
- Work with a strengths-based, relational, harm-reduction approach
- Utilize screens, assessments, and observation to guide service plan
- Provide confidential, emotional, and practical support to parents and caregivers
- Connect families with other service providers and resources to improve their health and well-being
- Advocate, as necessary, for clients to obtain the necessary supports for an improved quality of life, including basic needs, health, housing, transportation, legal, and income supports
- Document all activities accurately and according to procedure
- Transport clients to access services if necessary

**Qualifications**:

- Compassionate with a positive and empathetic approach to others
- Diploma in Social or Human Services, with relevant experience or equivalencies considered
- Experience working with individuals and families with complex needs
- Respect for the diversity of cultural differences and beliefs
- Knowledge of community resources
- Understanding of how to set professional boundaries
- Ability to maintain computerized files and documentation
- Current Child Welfare Record Check and Criminal Record/Vulnerable Sector Check
- Valid driver’s license with a reliable car will be required

Healthy Families Healthy Futures offers a benefits package, caring work environment, and opportunities for on-going training and professional development. Wage will be dependent on a combination of education and experience.
- however, only those individuals selected for interviews will be contacted. _

**Salary**: $20.00-$27.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Extended health care
- Paid time off

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Westlock, AB T7P 2J4: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2023-06-22