What are the responsibilities and job description for the Home Visitation - Parent Educator position at Talladega Clay Randolph Child Care?

Description

Essential Functions :

Develop and implement work plans and strategies for First Teacher home visiting.
Strengthen the local early childhood system and provide a coordinated approach for parents of young children (prenatal to kindergarten entry.)
Develop a coordinated or centralized intake process with all family support programming in the community with assistance from DCA.
Provide a leadership role to insure participating families receive integrated and coordinate early childhood services across all early childhood sectors in the community.
Efficient in computer operations
Must be organized and maintain all required documentation per program guidelines
Report all data accurately within prescribed timelines.
Implement the curriculum provided by the National Parent As Teachers and the local district's enhancements.
Serve 20 families in the first year and 24 in the second year.

A minimum of one home visit per month per family

A minimum of one parent / family group meeting per month per client list

Coordinate services with other community programs with similar purposes; make recommendation for further screenings, evaluations, etc.

Support and enhance playgroup meetings, parent-child field trips, community events involving PAT (health fairs, parent universities, speaking engagements, etc.)

Complete and submit all required program evaluation and financial reports requested by program coordinator.

Complete all required documentation regarding home visits, attendance records for PAT events, screening summaries, and other reports requested by program coordinator.

Support and enhance maintenance of a parent resource room.

Assist in the planning and production of program newsletter.

Assist in reviewing and evaluation results of annual parent surveys and other evaluative measures.

Attend required certification training and become certified as a parent educator.

Actively recruit volunteer families to participate in the program.

Attend required follow-up in-service training.

Attend training and become qualified to administer developmental screenings.

Perform other duties and responsibilities as determined by immediate supervisor or as needs arise.

Adhere to all district health and safety policies including all precautions of the Blood borne Pathogens Exposure Control Plan.

Physical Requirements / Environmental Conditions

Requires prolonged sitting or standing.

Requires stooping, kneeling, crawling, bending, turning and reaching.

Must work in noisy and crowded environment.

Must work in and around dust, fumes and odors.

Must have dependable transportation.

General Responsibilities : Parent Educators (PA) are responsible for working with families to promote or raise awareness of the following

Improved Maternal and Newborn Health

Prenatal Care

Parental us of alcohol, tobacco, or illicit drugs

Inter-birth intervals

Screening for maternal depression symptoms

Preconception care

Breastfeeding

Well-child visits

Maternal and child health insurance status

Child Injuries, Child Abuse, Neglect, or Maltreatment and Reduction of Emergency Department Visits.

Visits for children to the emergency department from all causes

Visits of mothers to the emergency department of all causes

Information provided or training of participants on prevention of child injuries including topics such as safe sleeping, shaken baby syndrome or traumatic brain injury, child passenger safety, poisonings, fire safety (including scalds), water safety (i.e. drowning), and playground safety

Incidence of child injuries requiring medical treatment

Report suspected maltreatment for children in the program( allegations that were screened in but not necessarily substantiated)

Report substantiated maltreatment (substantiated / indicated / alternative response victim) for children in the program.

First -time victims of maltreatment for children in the program

Improvements in School Readiness and Achievement

Parent support for children's learning and development(e.g., having appropriate toys available, talking and reading with a child)

Parent knowledge of child development and of their child's developmental progress

Parenting behaviors and parent-child relationship(e.g., discipline strategies, play interactions)

Parent emotional well-being of parent stress

Child's communication, language and emergent literacy

Child's general cognitive skills

Child's positive approach to learning including attention

Child's social behavior, emotion regulation, and emotional well-being

Child's physical health and development

Domestic Violence

Screening for domestic violence

Of families identified for the presence of domestic violence, number of referrals made to relevant domestic violence services

Of families identified for the presence of domestic violence, number of families for which a safety plans was completed.

Family Economic Self-Sufficiency

Household income and benefits

Employment of education of adults members of the household

Health insurance status

Coordination and Referrals for Other Community Resources and Supports

Number of families identified for necessary services

Number of families that required services and received a referral to available community resources.

MOU'S : Number of Memoranda of Understanding or other formal agreements with other social service agencies in the community

Information sharing : Number of agencies with which the home visiting provider has a clear point of contact in the collaborating community agency that includes sharing of information between agencies.

Number of completed referrals

Requirements

Qualifications :

Earned minimum of 60 hours of college credit, Bachelor's degree preferred. (Early Childhood education or related field of study.)

Demonstrated ability to work with adults and their young children.

Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the boards finds appropriate and acceptable.

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