Job Description
Job Description
The innovative HealthySteps approach is based on the most recent scientific understandings of how early childhood development works, and how it can best be supported to ensure individual, family, community, and societal well-being. HealthySteps promotes nurturing caregiving, which supports families and improves healthy development and well-being of babies and toddlers, preparing them for school and life.
The HealthySteps Specialist is an early child development expert who will join the pediatric primary care team at to provide interventions, referrals, and follow-up for families with patients ages 0-3. The HealthySteps Specialist builds strong relationships with families and providers to increase the efficiency of the medical system and support team-based comprehensive care.
Job Responsibility
- Promotes HealthySteps within the practice to families and providers
- Conducts team-based well-child visits before, during, or following the primary care provider Visits focus on monitoring development, social-emotional functioning, and relational health, and providing anticipatory guidance
- Conducts consultations on a short-term basis for needs regarding development and/or behavioral concerns such as sleep, positive parenting, picky eating, etc.
- Maintains a child development support line and responds to and tracks call requests within the designated response time
- Participates in reflective supervision meetings
- Reaches out to community providers within first 6 months in position to share about HealthySteps, their role, and receive information to support referrals, warm handoffs, and ensure appropriate referral criteria is met.
- Participates (when appropriate) in community-wide early childhood and/or mental health meetings.
- Is an active member of the HealthySteps Implementation Team and attends regular team meetings
- Engages in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives to ensure the HealthySteps model is delivered with fidelity
- Collaborates with HealthySteps implementation team to implement all eight Core Components including universal screenings, making positive parenting and early learning guidance information available, and adjusting workflows for optimal efficiency
- Maintains open communication with all members of the primary care team
- Works closely with pediatric primary providers around care coordination, goalsetting, coaching, and education about key aspects of a child’s development
- Provides consultation and/or facilitates training to medical professionals and all practice staff re: early childhood development, early relational health/infant early childhood mental health, and trauma-informed practice
- Maintains extensive databases required to meet HealthySteps fidelity metrics including both internal and external referrals.
- Collaborates with HealthySteps Implementation Team to complete required annual site reporting to the HealthySteps National Office at ZERO TO THREE,
- Documents all patient clinical activity and care coordination in EHR.
- Tracks caseload to ensure capacity to deliver the HS services within the risk stratified service delivery model.
- Participates in HealthySteps training (Virtual HealthySteps Institute)
- Participates in administrative and clinical/reflective supervision meetings
Job Qualifications
- Master’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, early childhood education, or related field highly preferred
- Clinically licensed mental health professional preferred
- Experience and knowledge about early childhood growth and development, parent-child relational health, infant and early childhood mental health, and family systems
*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member’s base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
The salary range for this position is $44,450-$69,340/year