Early Head Start Home Visitor
Early Head Start Home Visitor
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$ 38000 - 46000
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Job Description
About Focus On Renewal:
Focus On Renewal StoRox Neighborhood Corporation (FOR) is an umbrella and pillar community organization devoted to addressing much needed social services ranging from food security nutrition earlychildhood education family support groups and mental health to library and arts programs for all ages. Focus On Renewal employs 30 staff at five locations throughout McKees Rocks and Stowe Townships. We work with a wide range of partners to ensure high quality programming is accessible to all 13000 residents of the StoRox Community. Our mission states that Focus on Renewals programs and partnerships connect children adults and families with the relationships resources and opportunities needed to develop and sustain a thriving community.
About the Position:
Home Visitors for the Early Head Start Program play a critical role promoting early childhood education and building secure attachments between the infant/toddler and family members. Services are provided in the home office and various community settings. As a Home Visitor you will form relationships with families and their children ages 03. To be successful in this role we are looking for people who believe in a strengthsbased approach and use positive practices to help guide their everyday activities. The home visitor will partner with parents to design and implement ageappropriate experiences for the child and support the educational experiences for expectant mothers.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Implement FF/EHSs Infant Mental Health approach to partnering with families.
- Visiting families in their homes weekly and establishing working relationships
- Maintain a caseload of 1012 families.
- Plan and facilitate purposeful and meaningful home visits.
- Promote optimal development of enrolled children across the five child developmental domains using the Partners for Healthy Baby Curriculum Plan and implement educational experiences for expectant women. Provide support and parent education.
- Lead infant/toddler parent and other group socialization activities 2 times per month.
- Complete child development assessments every 46 months and develop appropriate child goals with family.
- Work with families to create Individualized Family Partnership Agreements (IFPA).
- Maintain complete case records and enter data in required data systems.
- Collaborate with the site team to design and implement strategies that support compliance with the Early Head Start Performance Standards. Ensure additional assessments advocacy case management referral and support services to families.
- Respect confidentiality.
- Attend all necessary program meetings and trainings.
- Assist in monthly parent meetings.
- Develop transition plans collaboratively with EHS multidisciplinary team. Facilitate familys access to community resources and supports such as other agencies and services.
Education:
Associates Degree in Early Childhood Education or Home Visiting CDA.
BS in Child Development/Early Childhood or degree in related field preferred.
Experience:
Two years experience working with young children ages birth to 36 months old in a variety of group and/or family settings.
Prefer experience working with expectant families families of diverse backgrounds parentchild interaction sessions and groups teenage parents dual language learners or refugee families parents involved with the child welfare systems and parents impacted by substance abuse and other mental health challenges.
Must be 21 years of age or older.
Employment Type
Full-Time
