Home Visitor

**Description of Division/Branch**
The KidSTART Home Visitation Programme delivers a range of child development strategies by supporting parents through home visits and support groups, and to assess and monitor the progress of children’s health and development. The programme promotes parent-child bonding and promotes child development by actively engaging families and working with social/ community partners and government agencies to ensure the needs of children and their families are addressed holistically.

**Responsibilities**
To provide support, guidance, knowledge and skills to enhance parents' capacity in child development through regular and consistent home visits.
- Possess sound assessment skills on the needs and risks of children/parents/caregivers to ascertain the intensity and customisation of intervention.
- Build rapport, engagement and cultivate a positive relationship with parents/caregivers to ensure that child development knowledge and skills are imparted effectively.
- Create and facilitate learning opportunities for parents in the areas of parent-child interaction, development-centred parenting and family well-being.
- Motivate, assess and enhance the parents' ability to conduct, practise and incorporate the knowledge and skills in child development.
- Conduct screening and ongoing assessment of child development, maternal and family wellbeing.
- Provide information and knowledge on medical, dental, mental health services, early childhood development, developmental issues, with support from a multi-disciplinary team comprising paediatricians and nurses, allied health professionals, early childhood and social work consultants.
- Collaborate and partner community and social service agencies (eg. FSCs, SSOs) to provide the necessary support for the families and their children, which includes regular case conferences and discussions.
- Participate actively and contribute to discussions in team meetings, supervision sessions, training and multidisciplinary case reviews.
- Conduct coaching and mentoring/supervision for new home visitors (post of Senior Home Visitors)
- Participate and be involved in the regular reviews of existing programmes and processes with the team
- Committed to and participate in the evaluation and fidelity monitoring of service delivery through consistency in administrative work, provision of data and information on cases in a timely manner.
- Contribute to the development and organisation of group sessions/activities to reinforce child development knowledge and skills, mental wellbeing of caregivers, and create opportunities for peer support among caregivers.
- Support in outreach efforts to reach out and recruit new families to join the Home Visitation Programme.

**Competencies**:

- Degree in Early Childhood Development, Psychology, Nursing, Social Work, Counselling or equivalent
- Passionate and committed to work with caregivers and their children
- Empathetic towards the needs and challenges of caregivers
- Excellent team player with good interpersonal and communication skills
- Capacity to reflect on key strengths and needs and motivated to enhance personal effectiveness and efficiency at work
- Flexible, nimble and able to adapt to organisational changes typical of start-up organisations
- Motivated towards learning and professional development
- Willing and able to work on some weekday evenings and weekends
- 3-5 years of work experience in the early childhood development or social service sector and familiar with the needs of low income families
- At least 3 years of experience in supervisory responsibilities with a good track record (for the post of Senior Home Visitor)
- Fluency in another language such as Malay, Mandarin or Tamil will be useful