EMPLOYMENT
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CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
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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DOULA
Position Overview:
As a part of the Healthy Start multidisciplinary team, our doulas 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 doulas 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 participant population and the community at large.
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COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER- WESTMORELAND COUNTY
Position Overview:
This is an advanced level community-based position that provides case management, coordination of care and health education to Healthy Start, Inc. program participants. This position serves as the first line of care in the Healthy Start, Inc. model. The Community Health Worker 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. The Community Health Worker will be responsible for managing referrals from Adagio Health and other community sources, developing and managing relationships with providers in Westmoreland County and coordinating with the Moving Beyond Depression program.
*This position serves families in Westmoreland County, aimed at the same goals.
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DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND ENGAGEMENT
Position Overview:
The Director of Marketing and Engagement is responsible for developing and executing strategic marketing and engagement initiatives to enhance the visibility, reputation, and impact of Healthy Start, Inc. This role involves creating and implementing comprehensive marketing strategies, overseeing communication efforts, and driving engagement with key stakeholders including donors, volunteers, program participants and the community. The Director of Marketing and Engagement must have a strong commitment to health equity and to developing a deep understanding of maternal and child health, public health concepts and health disparities.
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HEALTHY START CENTER FOR URBAN BREASTFEEDING (HSCUB)
PROGRAM ASSISTANT (Full-time)
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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PROJECT MANAGER- EMBRACE CENTER COMMUNITY COMPONENT
Position Overview:
The Project Manager will support multiple public health-focused projects across the organization. One primary project, EMBRACE, is a NIH-funded maternal health research Center of Excellence.
The project manager will support this initiative by employing project management skill and expertise to coordinate daily and routine activities of the project’s “Community Component” to ensure that the project is progressing and meeting benchmarks, collaboration to ensure training and support for Healthy Start’s Community Health Advocates and their integration into the Center projects and components, coordinating other routine meetings and convenings, leading coordination of the EMBRACE annual summit in alignment with the Healthy Start symposium, and supporting the evolution of the Community Health Advocate program as an evidence-informed model for developing people with lived experience into results-oriented and justice-focused MCH change agents.
The Project Manager must be able to work effectively as part of a team, develop a strong understanding of Healthy Start’s program/service continuum, manage and nurture relationships across multiple stakeholder groups, and have a passion for maternal and child health and health equity—supporting Healthy Start’s unique contributions to the field of maternal and child health, eradicating disparities faced by members of the Black community. The Project Manager will also maintain a portfolio of additional projects as they emerge.
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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.
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STAFF ACCOUNTANT
Position Overview:
This position is responsible for maintaining specific accounting processes and records of the organization and assisting the accounting department with various related tasks. This position serves all areas of the organization.