Children’s Home & Aid invites you to join our team of mission-driven staff who share a common vision: an equitable world where all children and families thrive in strong communities. As a leading child and family service agency with more than 20 locations across Illinois, our mission is to advance the well-being of children by investing in families to disrupt the systemic and multi-generational cycle of racial, social and economic inequality.

Our full-time staff receive competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, including a paid leave accrual rate that starts at two weeks annually and grows to more than five weeks of paid time off each year, as well as a paid winter break that occurs the week between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. We strive to hold ourselves and each other accountable for fostering an inclusive work culture where we can be our authentic selves, where we create and have equitable opportunities, and where our voices are supported and encouraged.

The Healthy Start Home Visitor meets with expectant parents and families with young children in McLean County, providing strength-based, family-centered services, comprehensive assessment, and parent support groups and education. As a Home Visitor, you will develop safe and trusting relationships with expectant and new parents, helping them to expand their support networks and maximize access to needed services, and providing support and expertise as they successfully navigate the parenting journey.

What you’ll do as Early Start Home Visitor:

• Provide home visits to expectant parents and families with young children.

• Rely on trusting relationships, thoughtful observation, and reflective listening to inform the assessment and service planning processes.

• Advocate for your clients’ access to community resources.

• Work with a team of providers to ensure services are comprehensive and collaborative.

• Provide strengths-based and family-centered parent education both individually and in group settings.

• Assess for safety and develop safety plans and strategies in collaboration with the family.

• Complete required program documentation within expected timeframes.

Who you are:

• Associate's Degree in a human services field required; Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• One year of experience working with families with children under the age of 5.
• You are an intuitive, nonjudgmental listener who easily builds relationships built on respect, trust and positive regard.
• You are a skilled communicator both verbally and in writing; the ability to communicate in both English and Spanish highly desirable.
• You are organized, attentive to detail, and have strong task prioritization and time management skills.

The details:

• Location: Hybrid (office-based/remote). This is not a fully remote position, but there are opportunities to work from home. Must be available to provide home- and community-based services, in-person, to program participants in McLean County of Central Illinois, and work from the home office in Bloomington, IL at least 3 times per week for in-person engagements with the team and supervisor. Case notes and other administrative tasks can be completed from home if desired.
• Schedule: Full-time, hourly. Monday - Friday, general business hours with some flexibility to provide evening availability as needed to accommodate client schedules.
• Staff are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to submit proof of their vaccination status before their start date unless they have an agency approved medical or religious exemption.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Salary: Range starts at $19/hour. Offers are commensurate with experience and bilingual candidates may receive additional financial compensation.
• Noncash benefits: Medical/dental/vision insurance, paid time off plus 11 paid holidays, supplemental insurance options, 401(k) with match (more benefits details here).
• Winter Break: The agency is closed between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. This paid break allows staff to spend time with their families around the holidays without using their accrued time off balances.
• Student Loan Forgiveness: Children's Home & Aid is an approved agency for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF).

Where you work matters.

You’re considering a new position, so no one knows better than you that where you work matters. We believe that by building diverse teams of passionate advocates for youth and families, we can continue to show up for Illinois families, putting those families at the center of every decision, and strengthening the communities where we all work, play, and live together. (More about who we are here.)

We invite you to become an active member of a team that supports, inspires, and challenges each other, and grow your career in an organization that celebrates emerging leaders and provides development and training opportunities aligned with your individual goals and aspirations. If you are looking for an opportunity to do meaningful work, including raising your voice to disrupt the status quo, we encourage you to apply today.

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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)