Positive Parenting Parent Educator
Positive Parenting Parent Educator
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30-04-2025
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JOB SUMMARY
Positive Parenting (PP) is a free home visitation program that serves a variety of families with children 05 years old in Tulsa County. Parent Educators utilize the Parents as Teachers (PAT) curriculum to promote positive parenting; encourage and improve child health and development; and prevent and/or reduce child abuse and neglect. Parent Educators assess family strengths and needs and provide referrals to other community resources and services as needed. They work to enhance family functioning by building trusting relationships; teaching problemsolving skills; improving the familys support system; and promoting positive parentchild interaction and relationships. The philosophy of the Positive Parenting program is to meet families where they are in order to build strong communities thriving families and children who are healthy safe and ready to learn.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assist parents in learning about child development positive parenting practices and parentchild interaction activities through home visitation services and facilitating group connection activities utilizing the Parents as Teachers curriculum.
- PP Parent Educators engage and build relationships with client families in the clients home from a traumainformed strengthbased perspective by initiating and maintaining regular contact (visiting each family twice a month for approximately one hour/visit) and providing support screening/assessment and referral assistance for families. Families who participate in the program may choose to be engaged in services until their child turns five years old.
- Effectively manages assigned caseload of 1820 families (each seen 2x/month) and complete required documentation (ex. intake forms service plans session notes assessments referral contacts etc. within the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) agency and Council of Accreditation (COA) standard of 48 hours;
- Assist with representing PCCT and recruiting for the program through community outreach at identified community organizations and events (ex. Emergency Infant Services) at least once a month.
- Establish a Family Goal Plan with families ongoing input and feedback that has established goals/objectives related to individual needs of the identified infant/child(ren) parent(s) and family with a set target date for completion; together with the family implement the case plan as a guide for service provision and update when due.
- Completes documents updates tracks/monitors all required screenings assessments goalplanning and PAT education sessions accurately and within the time frames specified. The Parent Educator will administer additional protocols and screenings as identified by the Program Manager the PAT curricula and outcome evaluators.
- Provide accurate timely wellorganized documentation and electronic chart management of all services and resources offered provided referred to and closed out/discharged from; as well as documentation of progress/ barriers on family goals and progress notes as well as other programrequired documentation.
- Ability to recognize the need for additional professional intervention &/or other community services and connect with appropriate referrals followup to ensure that referrals were successful and provide timely documentation of these interactions.
- Successful Parent Educators must have excellent interpersonal communication skills be dependable organized good initiative strong time management and strong problemsolving skills; display ability to work independently and know when to reach out for additional guidance and support; demonstrate the agencys values of hope compassion respect adaptability and have a nonjudgmental learning / growthoriented mindset.
- Participates in required agency and PAT trainings within established timeframes. PAT staff training requirements include three weeks of PAT Foundational training before providing independent home visits to families; attending 25 required trainings through the Oklahoma State Department of Health; Second year as a PAT 9 required trainings; Meet PAT standard of at least 20 clock hours of professional development annually.
- Other duties as assigned by the Positive Parenting Program Manager and/or as outlined by National Parents as Teachers model.
Requirements
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- High School Diploma/GED or Child Development Associate (CDA)
- Good knowledge of community resources and experience working with prenatal/pregnant and parenting caregivers infants children and their families.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills. Ability to adapt communication style to suit different audiences from a nonjudgmental stance. Effective facilitation and teaching skills. Ability to engage in and facilitate direct healthy effective crucial conversations with clients caregivers and coworkers.
- Very strong organizational documentation data entry and time management skills.
- Excellent active listening and interpersonal skills as well as a willingness to engage in reflective conversations and perspective taking with a growth and development mindset.
- Must have a good driving record maintain a valid state drivers license current car insurance and reliable transportation for fulltime business use in making home visits attending meetings (occasionally in OKC area) and community outreach. *Mileage reimbursement is provided for workrelated approved travel.
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds to carry work related items including but not limited to: locking backpack/bag for work equipment parentchild activity materials forms/assessments & basic safety/health items to ones car and to homes/apartments that may be upstairs or harder to reach.
- Ability to sit on floor for extended period to perform activities as needed while on home visits. Homes may on occasion have challenges the family is working on such as: lack of cleanliness uncomfortable odors concerns with bugs lack of furniture etc.
- Ability to work with all culturally diverse populations caregivers with potential histories of trauma such as child abuse/neglect interpersonal violence mental health substance abuse; and services may be in geographical areas that may be considered higher risk locations.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelors Degree: Social Work Human Relations Education Psychology or related field.
- Two years work experience with at risk families & prior homevisitation experience
- Oklahoma Association of Infant Mental Health (OKAIMH) Endorsement
SCHEDULE:
The typical work schedule for fulltime Positive Parenting Parent Educators is an exempt status 40 hour work week Monday Friday between the hours of 8:305pm. Must be available to adjust / extend services at least one night a week to 6:00pm as appropriate to meet client needs
Salary Description
$43000 $45000
Employment Type
Full Time
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