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Cape Breton Family Resource Coalition
The mandate of the Cape Breton Family Resource Coalition is "families working together to build healthier families." We work to enhance the health and well-being of families with young children (newborn to sixteen years of age, along with expectant parents). We are currently seeking highly motivated, self-directed applicants interested in joining our island-wide team and working in an accepting, non-judgmental work environment.
Community Home Visitor/Prenatal Nutrition Worker - Inverness/Richmond County
Community Home Visitors perform duties to support the goals and objectives of the Enhanced Home Visiting Program in their respective counties. The Healthy Beginnings Enhanced Home Visiting Program is offered to families identified through an assessment process led by Public Health Services. This assessment identifies families who may benefit from enhanced home visiting during the first three years of their child's life. The Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program supports pregnant women and their families with infants up to 24 months of age. This support may include the provision of nutritional assessments, supplements, and support services, prenatal education group sessions, play group experiences for parents and children 0-24 months, parenting support programs, etc. These services are provided both in group settings and in participants' homes.
The program uses a family-centered, strengths-based approach. The Community Home Visitors assist families with goal planning using this approach as well as providing emotional and practical supports, role modeling, parenting information, general health information, referrals to other agencies and organizations who may be able to provide supports, assistance with family goal setting and achievement of these goals. Duties and responsibilities include community home visiting, program promotion and referral, professional development, administration, reporting, and evaluation.
This position is a split position that reports to both our Inverness and our Richmond County offices. This is a full time, full year position dependent upon available funding.
Qualifications
1. Education and Experience
2. Skills and Abilities
Additional Information
This position requires:
Salary: $21.48 per hour
Application Deadline: July 14, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.
All applicants must clearly demonstrate in their cover letter or resume that they meet essential qualifications of education and experience in order to be considered for further assessment.
Please forward cover letter, resume and three references to:
Cape Breton's Family Place Resource Centre
714 Alexandra Street
Sydney, Nova Scotia
B1S 2H4
Attention: David MacKenzie
Applications will also be accepted in Microsoft Word format by electronic mail, in Word format, to David at [email protected]. We thank all applicants, however, only those accepted for an interview will be contacted.