Do you have a passion for helping young children and their families thrive? The HealthySteps Specialist is an early child development expert who will join the pediatric primary care team at Corning Centerway to provide interventions, referrals, and follow-up for families with patients aged 0-3. The HealthySteps Specialist builds strong relationships with families and providers to increase the efficiency of the medical system and support team-based comprehensive care. The innovative HealthySteps approach is based on the most recent scientific understandings of how early childhood development works, and how it can best be supported to ensure individual, family, community, and societal well-being. HealthySteps, a program of ZERO TO THREE, promotes nurturing caregiving, which supports families and improves healthy development and well-being of babies and toddlers, preparing them for school and life. We aim to achieve this goal by weaving together the expertise of a the HealthySteps Specialist, and the pediatric primary care provider. Together, just at the time when the brain is developing most rapidly, these experts bring focus to the important skills needed for families to foster healthy child development and life-long well-being: social emotional development; language and literacy skills; cognition skills; and perceptual, motor and physical development. The entire practice works together to implement the HealthySteps model, with leadership from a Physician Champion and the HealthySteps Specialist. Experience Experience and knowledge about early childhood growth and development, parent-child relational health, infant and early childhood mental health, and family systems Education + Master’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or related mental health field required. Licenses + A Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Medical Social Worker, or Licensed Professional counselor is preferred. Willing to consider unlicensed qualified individual who is willing to obtain licensure within 2 years of hire. Essential Functions + Preventive and Responsive Care + Promotes HealthySteps within the practice to families and providers. + Conducts team-based well-child visits before, during, or following the primary care provider Visits focus on monitoring development, social-emotional functioning, and relational health, and providing anticipatory guidance. + Conducts consultations on a short-term basis for needs regarding development and/or behavioral concerns such as sleep, positive parenting, picky eating, etc. + Maintains a child development support line and responds to and tracks call requests within the designated response time (direct office line, eGuthrie messaging). + Participate in reflective supervision meetings. + May conduct home visits and may accompany families to key medical, specialty, and community agency appointments as needed. + May facilitate parent/caregiver groups. + Referrals and Community Collaborations + Creates and maintains community resource directory/database. Provides referrals and tracks follow-up, as appropriate, to help families make successful connections to key resources within the community. + Reaches out to community providers within the first 6 months in position to share about HealthySteps, their role, and receive information to support referrals, warm handoffs, and ensure appropriate referral criteria is met. + Participates (when appropriate) in community-wide early childhood and/or mental health meetings. + Team-Based Care + Is an active member of the HS Implementation Team and attends regular team meetings. + Works with the front office administrative staff to ensure scheduling of the HS Specialist’s time in coordination with provider visits (i.e., well-child visits) + Engages in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives to ensure the HealthySteps model is delivered with fidelity. + Collaborates with HealthySteps implementation team to implement all eight Core Components including universal screenings, making positive parenting and early learning guidance information available, and adjusting workflows for optimal efficiency. + Maintains open communication with all members of the primary care team. + Works closely with pediatric primary providers around care coordination, goalsetting, coaching, and education about key aspects of a child’s development + Provides consultation and/or facilitates training to medical professionals and all practice staff re: early childhood development, early relational health/infant early childhood mental health, and trauma-informed practices. + Caseload Tracking, Record Keeping, and Reporting + Maintains extensive databases required to meet HealthySteps fidelity metrics including both internal and external referrals. + Collaborate with HealthySteps Implementation Team to complete required annual site reporting to the HealthySteps National Office at ZERO TO THREE, which may include analysis of both external database files and EHR data reports. + Documents all patient clinical activity and care coordination in EHR. + Tracks caseload to ensure capacity to deliver the HS services within the risk stratified service delivery model. This includes ensuring exit criteria is met and that families and children are elevated to higher levels of care or referred to community providers if needed. + Professional Development Activities + Participates in HealthySteps training (Virtual HealthySteps Institute) + Participate in administrative and clinical/reflective supervision meetings. Other Duties + It is understood that this description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and that other duties may be assigned as necessary in the performance of this position. + Encouraged to participate in community activities. + Travel is required for this position. Pay range min $21.46/hr max $34.00/hr Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community. The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace. The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.