Nurse Home Visitor (Part-Time)

Metropolitan Family Services empowers families to learn, to earn, to heal, to thrive. Part mentor, part motivator, part advocate, since 1857, Metropolitan Family Services has been the engine of change that empowers families to reach their greatest potential and positively impact their communities. Metropolitan is Illinois' first comprehensive human services agency and reaches more than 116,000 individuals and families in Chicago, Evanston/Skokie, the southwest suburbs and DuPage County with services promoting education, economic stability, emotional wellness and empowerment.
SALARY: Compensation is commensurate with years of related experience, position requirements, and candidate qualifications. The average salary for the position is $34.00 per hour.
We are currently searching for a Part-time Nurse Home Visitor to join our Palos Hills team!
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Create and maintain respectful partnerships with families.
• Deliver health, educational, nutritional and child growth and development information to parents via meetings in the home.
• Work alongside the parents to ensure that prenatal, well-child exams, immunizations, health screenings, and nutrition assessments are complete and necessary follow up occurs.
• Make referrals as needed.
• Provide support in preparing parent and child activities that encourage developmentally appropriate, play based activities for the changing needs of children.
• Support individual goals for children as identified in their individualized family service plans/individual education plan.
• Assess individual needs, attending to special needs, specific interests, strengths and concerns.
• Complete all developmental, social emotional and health screenings.
• Develop and utilize integrated curriculum plans, which reflect mandated elements and components, parental and cultural influences, and promote the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development.
• Encourage experimentation, exploration, problem solving, cooperation, socialization, and choice-making; ask open-ended questions and listen respectfully to the answers.
• Participate in required parent/teacher conferences and home visits.
• Plan and conduct regular socialization and monthly parent meetings with team members.
• Maintain accurate written records, including: assessments, IEP/IFSP documentation, screening instruments, anecdotal observations, and other required forms.
• Attend meetings, training and appropriate professional development activities.
• Provides active supervision to ensure the safety of children during transitions. Ensures that no child shall be left alone or unsupervised.
• Work effectively with diverse staff and service population.
• Ensures the usage of agency technology equipment and time are utilized for agency business.
• Ensures compliance with the agency's code of conduct.
• Ensures agency's fiscal integrity by adhering to purchase approval requirements and procedures.
• Assists in the development of the agency's annual program self-assessment.
• Ensures all data is accurately reflected in the agency's Program Information Report within set time frames.
• Participate in program recruitment efforts to maintain full enrollment.
• Monitor and report child abuse/neglect.
• Ensure that accurate and current information is entered into Child Plus/COPA and Teaching Strategies GOLD on a regular basis.
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university, required.
• Current RN state of Illinois license in good standing, required.
• Bilingual in English/Spanish preferred
• Experience working with low-income families, preferred.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with a basic knowledge of computers.
• Strong interpersonal and time management skills required.
• Some direct service and home visiting experience preferred.
• Requires mobility to work with a community-based caseload.
• Ability to maintain assigned community and home base services.
• Must have access to a vehicle, valid driver's license and proof of insurance to perform essential job functions.
• Employment with MFS requires proof of vaccination or an approved Medical exemption, required.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule including some evenings and/or weekends if needed.
• Satisfactorily pass a health examination, fingerprint and criminal background check.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team setting.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• MFS staff are required to provide proof of vaccination or have an approved Medical exemption prior to starting employment. If an approved Medical is obtained, weekly testing may be required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is required to sit and stand for sustained periods of time, frequently talk, hear, use hands and fingers to feel, handle and operate objects or controls, and occasionally stand, bend, stretch, stoop, kneel and crouch.
• The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing and viewing a computer terminal.
• The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)