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title: HealthySteps Specialist at Oak Orchard Health Center
description: Oak Orchard Health Center is hiring for the HealthySteps Specialist role in Albion,
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| **Company** | Oak Orchard Health Center |
| **Location** | Albion, NY |
| **Salary** | $62.3K/yr |
| **Posted** | Sep 23, 2026 |
## Description

Position Summary:

The HealthySteps Specialist is an early child development expert who will join the pediatric primary care team to provide interventions, referrals, and follow-up for families with patient’s ages 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.

Job Responsibilities:

- 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
- Participates in reflective supervision meetings
- May facilitate parent/caregiver groups
- Will participate in other activities related to the HealthySteps Program as necessary
- Any other reasonable requests from management.

Skills/Qualifications:

- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in a team setting.
- Ability to maintain effective and professional relationships with patient and other members of the care team.
- Working knowledge of differential diagnosis of common mental health and/or substance abuse disorders, when appropriate.
- Ability to effectively engage patients in a therapeutic relationship, when appropriate.
- Ability to work with patients by telephone as well as in person.
- Working knowledge of evidence-based psychosocial treatments and brief behavioral interventions for common mental health disorders, when appropriate e.g., motivational interviewing, problem-solving treatment, behavioral activation).
- Basic knowledge of psychopharmacology for common mental health disorders that is within appropriate scope of practice for type of provider filling role.

Education/Experience:

- Experience in social work, mental health counseling or other similar work.
- Experience with screening for common mental health and/or substance abuse disorders.
- Experience with assessment and treatment planning for common mental health and/or substance use disorders.
- Experience with evidence-based counseling techniques.
- Specialized training and licensure to be able to provide brief psychosocial interventions such as problem-solving treatment.
- Bachelors or Master’s degree in psychology or human services field preferred, associated degree with at least two years of direct experience in the human services field will also be considered.
## Skills

- Primary Care
- Scope of Practice
- Supervision
- Caregiving
- Child Development
- Motivational Interviewing
- Problem Solving
- Differential Diagnosis
- Treatment Planning
- Psychopharmacology
- Substance Use Disorder Treatment
- Counseling
- Behavioral Intervention
- Counseling Techniques

## How to Apply

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