EMPLOYMENT
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CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
OPERATIONS ASSISTANT
Position Overview:
This is a support position in the field of community health responsible for assisting the Healthy Start team with daily activities that support office and organizational operations. This position works under the direction of the Administrator – Human Resource, Operations and Fiscal. This position is a member of the Administration Department and may also work closely with the Director of Administration. This position requires office work daily and is not considered a remote position.
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HELLO BABY PRIORITY PROGRAM MANAGER
Position Overview:
We are seeking a passionate, dedicated, and experienced candidate with strong execution skills to play a pivotal role in the implementation and success of the Hello Baby program. This program is designed to strengthen families, enhance child outcomes, and maximize the overall well-being of children and families.
As a key member of the Hello Baby Priority care team at Healthy Start, the Program Manager will lead essential aspects of program delivery for families in Allegheny County with complex needs, particularly those parenting newborns and young children. This role requires a hands-on, proactive approach to program
execution, ensuring that initiatives are carried out effectively and efficiently. The candidate must possess robust administrative and clinical expertise, with the ability to creatively solve problems, analyze data, and drive actionable insights.
The Program Manager will work in close collaboration with the Hello Baby Director and other Healthy Start colleagues to guarantee seamless service delivery, consistent program outcomes, and continuous improvement.
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HELLO BABY PRIORITY PROGRAM COORDINATOR
Position Overview:
We are seeking a strategic and proactive thinker who is detail-oriented, with excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to effectively manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
As a key member of the Hello Baby Priority Care Team, the Program Coordinator plays an integral role in ensuring the successful delivery of services and support for families with newborns in Allegheny County who face complex needs. In this position, the Program Coordinator will oversee both internal and external program functions, addressing clerical tasks, community engagement, partner relations, and program reporting requirements.
The Program Coordinator will uphold and promote the program’s core values of community engagement, authentic healing relationships, family and child well-being, equity, and respect, ensuring that these principles are consistently reflected in all aspects of service delivery and team collaboration.
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MOVING BEYOND DEPRESSION™ CLINICIAN
Position Overview:
The MBD Clinician provides In-Home Cognitive Behavioral Therapy using the evidence-based clinical model Moving Beyond Depression to Healthy Start participants and participants referred from community partners. The MBD Clinician also provides short-term therapeutic interventions and care coordination to support Healthy Start families in connecting to higher-level mental health therapies.
The MBD Clinician conducts psychosocial assessments and provides In-Home Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IHCBT) to women in their homes. The purpose of the intervention is to facilitate recovery from maternal depression in women served by home visiting programs, thereby promoting the healthy development of infants and children. The Clinician works closely with the home visiting team/program and other community services to ensure continuity of participant care; may also support fathers and other family/household members. The clinician may lead individual and group sessions to support treatment goals of the participant.
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FATHERHOOD COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER
Position Overview:
This is a community-based position contributing to the successful delivery of services and supports for fathers across the organization by supporting the fatherhood “community of practice” across the Healthy Start, Inc. organization. The Fatherhood Community Healthy Worker (CHW) enrolls and delivers case management services and develops and leads group education and support initiatives for fathers enrolled in programs across the organization. The Fatherhood CHW will exhibit expertise in high-quality service offerings, case management, community outreach, and implement creative ideas to best support fathers and their families in collaboration with the Healthy Start multidisciplinary team and support from the Fatherhood Coordinator. A successful Fatherhood CHW is passionate, knowledgeable of family systems, aware of community resources, empathetic, flexible, detail-oriented, thinks outside the box, has excellent written and verbal communication skills, and embodies the organization’s principles of public health and health equity.
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WIC BREASTFEEDING PEER COUNSELOR
Position Overview:
Healthy Start, in partnership with the Allegheny County Health Department’s division of Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), is adding a full-time Breastfeeding Peer Counselor (BFPC) to the team! A BFPC is a paraprofessional support person who gives basic breastfeeding information and encouragement to pregnant and breastfeeding participants. BFPCs are women who have successfully breastfed, are trained to help other women in their communities and may have direct experience with the WIC program. As a part of the Healthy Start multidisciplinary team, our BFPCs have a passion for maternal and child health, and advance family systems and life course approaches to support improved birth outcomes and family and community health and well-being. Our BFPCs will focus on health equity, using evidence-based practice, supporting Healthy Start’s unique contributions to the field of maternal and child health, eradicating disparities faced by members of the Black community, and will work to serve the Healthy Start and WIC participant population and the community at large.
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HOME VISITING SUPERVISOR–ALLEGHENY/WESTMORELAND COUNTY
Position Overview:
This is an advanced level supervisory role guiding performance, quality assurance, support and development for home visiting staff. The supervisor also maintains a small caseload of home visiting participants—providing case management, coordination of care, health education and administrative support as needed to the Program Manager and Director of Clinical Practice and Home Visiting. The Home Visiting Supervisor has a passion for maternal and child health and advances family systems and life course approaches to support improved birth outcomes, and family health and well-being.
*This position supports programming in Westmoreland County, aimed at the same goals.
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FAMILY COACH
Position Overview:
This is a community-based home visiting social work position contributing to the successful delivery of services and supports for families of newborns in Allegheny County who have complex needs. As a member of the Hello Baby team at Healthy Start, the Social Worker will exhibit expertise in high quality service offerings and will focus on connecting families to services and ongoing follow up with providers through care management (screening, assessment, goal planning, referral and follow up) to enrolled families using the Camden Coalition COACH model. COACH is a five-part framework that trains staff to be empowerment coaches in order to problem-solve with families to determine how to support them in reaching their goals.
The COACH model focuses on Empowerment Theory, Unconditional Positive Regard and Transtheoretical Theory (Stages of Change). The successful Social Worker is passionate, knowledgeable of family systems, aware of community resources, is empathetic, is flexible and thinks outside the box, has excellent written and verbal communication skills and embodies the project’s core principles of community engagement, authentic healing relationships, family and child well-being, equity and respect. The Social Worker works in community with the Family Engagement Specialist and is a member of the Hello Baby multidisciplinary team. Social work experience is required; home visiting experience is highly preferred.