Parent Educator

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : $37,000 - $40,000

Job Description :

Parent Educators will implement the Parent As Teachers early childhood parent education and family support program. This program is designed to help all parents give their children the best possible start in life. Parents as Teachers provides parents with information on child development, prenatal through kindergarten entry, and involves parents in learning activities with their children that encourage language and intellectual growth, physical and social-emotional skills.

Job Responsibilities :

• Participates in pre-service and staff professional development.
• Maintains a consistent case load serving 12 children with weekly visits.
• Conducts a needs assessment with each family to determine current strengths and areas of need.
• Schedules and conducts home visits, and offers timely information on child development, parenting skills, and age-appropriate activities for young children.
• Educates parents about critical parent issues, to include positive parenting practices, and steps to assure school readiness.
• Works with small groups of parents and children to reinforce parenting skills.
• Assists individual families in need of special attention by providing referrals to Baby Net, DSS, DHEC, Housing Authority etc.
• Alerts the supervisor to any problems or special information about individual families.
• Conducts a complete screening of each child participant.
• Conducts other assessments of children and parents as required by Early Head Start and / or SC First Steps.
• Assists with data collection to ensure outcome-based services are provided.
• Assists in setting up and maintaining materials for the Parenting program.
• Develops age-appropriate lesson plans for families.
• Documents and maintains accurate records of all home visits to include personal visit records noting progress and difficulties in each of the four domains of development and updating milestones checklist. Document all visits into the SC Frist Steps Data Collection System and Visit Tracker & Child Plus within 5 working days of visit.
• Establishes a positive rapport with families and maintains confidentiality.
• Regularly engage in recruitment activities for new families.
• Assists with planning and facilitating parenting seminars, workshops, and group socializations.
• Assists in coordinating interagency assistance efforts for parents and children as needed.
• Encourages parent participation in other parts of the program such as monthly group meetings and / or field trips to facilitate positive involvement when the child enters school.
• Keep complete, up-to-date, and accurate records as required.
• Performs any other responsibilities or duties as they relate to the program.
• Consult with PAT Supervisor for assistance in identifying problems.
• Participates in required reflective supervision.
• Must follow updated yearly Program and Operational Guidelines provided by SC First Steps.

Qualifications :

Job Relationships :

The Parent Educator is supervised by and reports to the PAT Program Director. The Executive Director has final input into all work-related matters of all employees of Charleston County First Steps. Parent Educators working with CCSD Early Head Start program with report to its staff as outlined in the Memorandum of Agreement.

Your employment with Charleston County First Steps (CCFS) continues to be on an "at-will basis, which means you and the company are free to terminate employment at any time, with or without cause or advanced notice. This outline is a list of tasks that cover the broad range of duties and responsibilities performed at this level for the job role.

Salary : $37,000 - $40,000