EMPLOYMENT
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CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
DATA, EVALUATION & QUALITY IMPROVEMENT MANAGER
Position Overview:
The Data, Evaluation and QI Manager serves as a member of the Healthy Start management team overseeing data integrity, management, analysis, reporting and quality assurance—driving the integration of data-driven decision making throughout the organization. This role promotes accountability, and an engaged quality culture, and will lead research and analysis to inform improvements in how programs and services are designed or delivered. This role leads a team of staff and interns.
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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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HEALTHY START CENTER FOR URBAN BREASTFEEDING (HSCUB)
PROGRAM ASSISTANT (FT)
Position Overview:
We are seeking a passionate, energetic, reliable, and responsible candidate, with particular interest in breastfeeding to support our Healthy Start Center for Urban Breastfeeding (HSCUB). As part of the Healthy Start, Inc., multidisciplinary team, the HSCUB program assistant will be expected to provide support—and could potentially be the first point of contact—for families interested and/or enrolled in our program.
This public health position supports programming and initiatives that contribute to the HSCUB which may include managing responsibilities such as maintaining program service records, strengthening community and online presence, managing data collection and analysis, developing communication materials, completing participant intakes, conducting home visits, providing instruction and other related tasks.
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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.