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EMPLOYMENT

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CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES

COMMUNITY COORDINATOR

Position Overview:

The Community Coordinator will be responsible for planning and executing community engagement efforts for Healthy Babies Zone/Best Babies Zone Project in Wilkinsburg, PA, the Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) Community Action Team (CAT) and other emerging community health initiatives. The Healthy Babies Zone Wilkinsburg (HBZ) project was modeled after the Best Babies Zone (BBZ) framework to establish a community structure that ensures babies are born into a community that will enable them to thrive and reach their full potential. The BBZ initiative was created to address perinatal health outcomes by focusing efforts on the social and economic determinants of health and the promotion of health equity and their impact on health outcomes. The Community Coordinator primarily oversees the HBZ community stakeholder group facilitation, community program development, community partner relationship building, and represents the program by leading projects such as the Wilkinsburg Walking Path, the Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community Designation and doula expansion into the Wilkinsburg community.

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OPERATIONS ASSISTANT

Position Overview:

This is a professional position in the field of community health responsible for assisting the Healthy Start team with daily activities that supports their work in the care of participants. This position is an integral part of the Operations Department and works independently under the direction of the Administrator – HR, Fiscal and Operations (“Administrator”).

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TEAM SUPERVISOR- HELLO BABY PRIORITY

Position Overview:

We are seeking an energetic, reliable, and responsible candidate who is passionate about and willing to carry out the Hello Baby program design to strengthen families, improve child outcomes and maximize child and family well-being. As
part of the Hello Baby tiered strategy, the Hello Baby Priority program focuses on engagement and support for families with the highest need. As a member of the Healthy Start Hello Baby Priority care team, the Team Supervisor will provide
supervision for the community-based home visiting care team to ensure accountability, service delivery and professional growth. The Team Supervisor will be trained in and ensure fidelity to the Camden Coalition COACH model of supporting behavior change. This person should possess highly developed analytical skills and clinical experience. Past supervisory experience is required.

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SOCIAL WORKER- HELLO BABY PRIORITY

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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I.H.E FELLOW – ALLEGHENY COUNTY B.I.R.T.H. INITIATIVE 

Position Overview:

The Infant Health Equity (IHE) Fellowship is a twelve-month cross agency fellowship designed to provide an individual with a meaningful learning experience, professional development training, mentorship, funding, and additional support in effort to advance Allegheny County’s B.I.R.T.H Plan for Black Babies and Black Families. The selected fellow will engage in participatory practice and action learning with an emphasis on equity, policy advocacy, and data. Healthy Start Inc. Pittsburgh, Trying Together, Allegheny County Health Department, and Allegheny County Department of Human Services, are hosting the programming which focuses on helping the fellow develop the following competencies…

 

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COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER

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.

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