Minimum Requirements:
- Home Visitor Child Development Associate (CDA). Associate’s degree in early childhood education preferred.
- 1-2 years’ experience in social services, and or family engagement.
- 1-2 years’ experience in an early learning setting.
- Computer proficiency required.
- Ability to communicate and relate to many diverse families of limited income.
- Must be able to pass a pre-employment and/or periodic physical examination, annual TB skin test, and complete background check every 24 months.
- Reliable transportation with appropriate auto insurance.
Physical Requirements:
The physical requirements for this position are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Must be able to frequently walk, stand and sit for extended time periods.
- Repetitive use of hands; reaching and turning.
- Ability to lift 30 pounds; light lifting of supplies and materials.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.
- Must be able to twist, turn, kneel, bend and stoop.
- Must be able to monitor children’s safety in activities when needed.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for assisting with weekly recruitment/enrollment of Early Head Start families. Effectively implements ERSEA policies and procedures.
- Manage a caseload of 12 families through the annual program term.
- Provide weekly 90-minute parent mentoring sessions in the home for families with children 0-3. Provide bi-weekly parent mentoring sessions for prenatal families. Parents with high-risk pregnancies receive weekly mentoring sessions. Mothers in their 3rd trimester receive weekly mentoring sessions.
- Support families to ensure access to medical/dental insurance and medical/dental home for parent/child. Support expectant moms to maintain access to prenatal, postnatal and newborn health care. Support parents to ensure their child is current with health requirements outlined in the Texas Periodicity Schedule. Ensures two-week Well Baby check is completed.
- Collaborate with participants to plan and implement activities to enhance development of parenting and prenatal development skills that lead to health newborn outcomes and developmental growth for children ages 0-3.
- Assist in the development and achievement of Family Needs Assessment and Family Partnership Agreement (Goals).
- Provide encouragement, support, and referrals for adult achievement of educational and economic self-efficacy goals.
- Support parents to access community resources that support family well-being.
- Provide prenatal development education and child development education to help support the parent as their child’s first teacher.
- Use Parents Interacting with Infants framework to plan and implement peer-to-peer and parent/child caseload experiences based on the needs and interests of children and parents on the caseload. 10 socializations required for Prenatal Services and 22 required for Early Learning Services.
- Identifies parents to represent Prenatal and Early Learning Services on Policy Council.
- Collaborate with Home Base Manager and parent leaders to plan and implement monthly Parent Committee Meeting.
- Meet 30-day (Insurance/Health Homes), 45-day (Developmental/Behavioral/Hearing/Vision), and 90-day (Health Determination) Head Start deliverables for all newly enrolled participants.
- Develops and Child Portfolio and uses data to assess children’s development three times a year.
- Completes Home Safety Checklist, and PICCOLO observations with parents according to program schedule.
- Responsible for working with assure quality, timely, and appropriate services for participating families.
- Partners with families to identify child and family needs and provide resources and referrals to meet those needs. Ensure families have the opportunity to share personal information in an environment in which they feel safe.
- Collaborate with health team to ensure newborns receive a 2-Week Well Child Visit.
- Generates in-kind contributions for Early Head Start.
- Responsible for accurate data entry of records into various data systems to include: mileage, timecards, Recruitment Logs, Socialization Logs, Home Visit Records, In-Kind Logs, and other designated records.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to support Policy Council, agency family engagement events, self-assessments, etc.
- Attend staff meetings and training as required by supervisor. Maintain at least 15 hours of continuing education annually. Actively participates in Construct Coaching.
- Maintains required certifications: Vision/Hearing, CPR/First Aid, Parents As Teachers, Teaching Strategies Gold Reliability, Food Handlers Certification.
- Facilitate referrals from other agencies to the Early Head Start Program.
- Stays current on best practices in home visiting and community resource/community data in Tarrant County.
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