Family Educator Specialized - Early Care and Education CovertHartford
Family Educator Specialized - Early Care and Education CovertHartford
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Job Description
Reports To:
Family Links Field Supervisor
Location of Work:
Covert/Hartford Van Buren County
Base Location:
Special Services Building
701 S Paw Paw Street
Lawrence MI 49064
Starting Date:
(tentative)
Rate of Pay:
According to the current year Master Agreement
Hours to Work:
1365 annually year round services
Classification:
Early Childhood/Family Educator
Job Goal(s):
The overall job goal of the Early Childhood Family Educator is to partner with families in the
home setting using the Parents as Teachers curriculum to provide families with the skills andknowledge they need to ensure their children are competent healthy selfassured and ready forschool.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
- Bachelor degree required. Child development education social work family studies or related field is preferred but not limited to.
- Bilingual in English/Spanish strongly preferred.
Certification:
Parents as Teachers (PAT) certified preferred. If no certification must be able to attend multiple day virtual training.
Work Experience:
- Experience in working with young children and their families
- Experience in connecting & working with atrisk populations
- Experience in home visitation preferred
Skills:
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills that build relationships with atrisk families.
- Professional communication skills relative to writing recording telephoning and computing
- Dependability skills as reflected by assuming ownership for the assigned job goal and responsibilities; demonstrating a willingness to acquire and apply new understandings and skills in assignment
- Organizational skills with the ability to manage selfscheduling and paperwork requirements.
- Computer skills and ability to use online data/documentation systems.
Essential Job Functions:
- Create a recruitment and enrollment plan to reach targeted populations with children prenatal to kindergarten entry.
- Enroll and visit with families on a regular schedule in the home setting.
- Engage in strategies that maintain families engagement and result in meeting home visit frequency requirements.
- Create a weekly schedule that allows for flexibility to meet with working families makes effective use of route planning and optimizes daily work hours. This may result in different start and end times for some days.
- Plan home visits using Parent as Teacher curriculum materials based on familys needs and interests. Lessons are designed to empower families with accurate child growth and development knowledge effective parenting skills strategies to build their childs school readiness build understanding of the early literacy support and promote positive adultchild relationships.
- Complete required development and health screenings per schedule. Support followup evaluation if needed.
- Work with team members to plan group and special family events. Promote and facilitate monthly play groups in targeted communities.
- Cultivate positive supportive relationships with family members to encourage partnerships in education. Promote a connection to the local school/preschool system and community activities to provide children with social and learning experiences (i.e. monthly playgroups).
- Assist families in connections with additional services when needed such as financial assistance health care education and training etc.
- Keep current wellwritten records reports assessments and submit in a timely manner. 10. Assess plan and coordinate services to families through partnership with other programs and agencies if applicable.
- Participate in professional development activities and inservice training. Participate in team meetings team committees monthly reflective supervision and other assigned Family Links activities.
- Perform additional tasks responsibilities and duties as assigned by the Early Care and Education administrators.
- Valid drivers license required.
Terms of Employment:As per master agreement and provisions established by the Van Buren Board of Education.
This posting and our online application can be found on the Van Buren ISDs website atunder Employment. If you do not have access to a computer with internet access you may use a computer at VBISD by calling.
Position is open until filled.
Inhouse staff must fill out the online internal application.
Employment Type
Full Time
