Best Start Worker
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION: The Best Start Worker works to deliver a culturally-based proactive, outreach-oriented, and strengths-based program focused on family support, education and community engagement for families with young children who are experiencing additional life challenges. The Best Start Worker ‘s role is also to build upon the strengths of the family, and to support parents to ensure healthy child growth and development. The Best Start worker establishes an individual family support plan with the family identifying goals, objectives and activities to meet the family’s needs and to strengthen the family unit. This is a term position for approximately 3 – 6 months. 1. Assesses, documents, and reports. Completes an in-depth Family Assessment upon the family’s entry to the program. Utilizes the information from the completed Family Assessment to focus opportunities for parent development with targeted Best Start Curriculum. Conducts and documents additional standardized assessments as required such as the Ages and Stages Assessment questionnaire 2; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Early Years Evaluation; etc. Establishes and documents specific goals that will guide in-home visits. Ensures the Best Start database is kept updated with all essential infantfamily related information, Family Assessments, the established family related goals, home visit notes, as …