Family Visitor
3 weeks ago
Family Visitor
**Job Number**:2006
**Job Type**: Casual
**Location**:99 Regina Street, Waterloo, ON
**Number of Positions**:3
**Department**: Healthy Babies Healthy Children
**Division**: Public Health and Paramedic Services
**Hours of Work**: Up to 24 hours per week, as needed
**Union**: CUPE 1883
**Grade**: CUPE 1883 Grade 009
**Salary Range**: $34.08 - $38.59 per hour**Posting Date**:December 5, 2024**Closing Date**:December 11, 2024**About Us**
The Region of Waterloo is a thriving, diverse community committed to fostering opportunities for current and future generations. Home to over 674,000 residents and expected to grow to nearly one million by 2051. Guided by our 2023-2027 Strategic Plan, “Growing with Care,” we focus on equity, inclusion, and sustainability. Our mission is to provide essential services that enhance the quality of life for all residents, while our core values emphasize caring for people and the land we share. Join us and be part of a team dedicated to making a meaningful difference in our community.
Dish with One Spoon Wampum:
- Waterloo Region is part of the Dish with One Spoon wampum, a treaty guiding our commitment to:
- Recognizing our shared humanity and land
- Taking only what we need
- Leaving some for others
- Keeping the dish clean
- This agreement underpins our vision, mission, and core values, and reinforces our dedication to meaningful reconciliation and equity.
**The Role**
- To provide support and teach a variety of skills to families with children 0-6 years of age who have been identified as being at high risk of problems that may compromise healthy child development; to work one on one with families in the Healthy Babies, Healthy Children program to promote children’s health and help children achieve their optimal level of physical, cognitive, emotional, psycho-social, and communicative development in a safe, supportive environment; to teach a variety of skills to help parents develop their strengths and parenting skills; and to connect families with community resources.
**Duties/Responsibilities**
- Uses a family centred, solution focused approach to assist families to recognize their strengths, resources, and challenges. In consultation with service coordinators, assists families to set goals and develop Family Action Plans to meet their goals. Works as part of a multi-disciplinary team to implement action plans monitored by service coordinators to meet the material, emotional, and social needs of high risk families.
- Establishes and maintains trusting, non-judgmental, and supportive relationships with high-risk families who have inadequate resources and/or skills in goal setting, problem solving, parenting, coping, income, employment, education, housing, food security, personal safety, and/or social support. Assists families to access formal and informal community and government resources, as appropriate. In crisis situations, consults with Service Coordinator and/or Manager, Family Health or where emergency service are required such as Emergency Medical Services, Ambulance, or Police, independently provides support, information, and referrals and notifies service coordinator and/or Manager, Family Health of action taken.
- Conducts regular home visits, telephone calls, and accompanies families to community services to provide encouragement to and foster hope in families; shares own life experiences as a support or teaching tool, as appropriate. Tries to involve all family members present during visits. Develops, plans, and demonstrates interactive activities to model skills and behaviours.
- Monitors, documents, and reviews individual families' progress in collaboration with the family, service coordinators, Manager, Family Health, and other agencies working with the family.
- Assists parents in completing a Nipissing developmental screen to determine an individual child’s developmental progress. Supports the parents to identify parent-child activities to stimulate development.
- In conjunction with service coordinators, educates families on child development, behaviour, nutrition, safety, and age appropriate activities. Provides information to families on prenatal care, feeding, family planning, and general health practices. Develops, organizes, and maintains a supply of teaching kits, resource materials, and educational aids for use with families.
- Advocates for families with other service providers, such as housing, day care, outreach, for new services and continuation of existing services. Contacts community agencies and health professionals on behalf of families and accompanies families on related visits.
- Documents all contact with families and service providers. Completes and submits detailed forms, records, reports, and case notes to appropriate service coordinator. Enters data from the completed forms, records, reports, and case notes into the Integrated Services for Children Information System (ISCIS). Ensures all submissions are made w
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