Parent Educator
Parent Educator
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21-04-2025
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Job Summary
Provide regularly scheduled personalized home visits and parent group socialization services to eligible children and their families. Implement the Parent as Teachers model emphasizing parentchild interaction developmentcentered parenting and family wellbeing in their work with families. Utilizing the PAT Foundational Curricula in culturally sensitive ways the parent educator partners facilitates and reflects with families. Sets precedent within limits and/or administers operating rules and procedures under management guidance. Performs intermediate troubleshooting or analysis; problems require interpretation of data using generally prescribed procedures. Frequent interaction to provide basic information and/or occasional interaction requiring detailed procedural explanations or technical responses.
Responsibilities/Essential Functions
- Partner with parents to increase understanding of child development appropriate expectations and methods to facilitate learning through regularly scheduled home visits.
- Facilitate parentchild interactions to stimulate growth in cognitive language social and motor skills.
- Plan provide and document personal visits focused on parentchild interaction developmentcentered parenting and family wellbeing.
- Maintain and submit all required family and program documentation in the appropriate database on a timely manner.
- Plan and facilitate parent group socialization with both parents and children through ageappropriate experiences.
- Implement home visiting model using the Parent as Teachers curriculum at the appropriate frequency and duration.
- Assess families needs and connect families to appropriate agencies/services.
- Conduct childs health and developmental screenings as scheduled; submit referrals to appropriate service providers and follow up on services.
- Complete initial and annual family assessments and develop and review goals with each family.
- Travel to various locations for meetings trainings and events locally which requires a valid drivers license and reliable transportation.
- Other duties as assigned
Required Education/Experience
- Fluent in English bilingual preferred: Spanish Zopau or Pashto
- Associate degree required Bachelors Degree preferred in early childhood education social work health psychology or a related field (or equivalent degree outside the U.S)
- Supervised experience working with families and young children.
- Depending on the funding allocation for the position a homebased CDA credential a compatible credential or coursework equivalent to a homebased CDA credential as part of an associate or bachelors degree may be required.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills and possessing key characteristics (e.g. empathetic conscientious accepting ethical and nonjudgmental) A commitment to diversity equity inclusion and accessibility.
- Ability to follow oral and written instructions with the ability to read interpret and present information efficiently and effectively
- Ability to work independently to take initiative multitask and work well under pressure.
- Must maintain strict confidentiality of extremely sensitive data records files conversations etc.
- Computer skills including online research email internet and word processing
- Strong organizational and recordkeeping skills
Essential Physical & Mental Requirements
Primarily a fieldbased position with travel to parents homes in Tulsa County (exposure to normal traffic hazards). Work requires bending stooping lifting pushing and pulling throughout the day. Ability to lift and carry up to 25 pounds. Regular and reliable attendance required.
Pay Band Code: 13
Employment Type
Full Time
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