The Parent Educator is responsible for providing Parents As Teachers curriculum to Essex County Families in their homes. The role involves building a trusting relationship with families, strengthening the parent-child relationship, and assisting parents in improving their skills to optimize the home environment and parenting practices.
Requirements
- Values and participates in the Team as a proactive member
- Respects others’ professional opinions and tolerates a range of feelings
- Able to give and receive constructive criticism
- Willing to take on extra work when needed
- Performs required tasks according to the program philosophy, policies and procedures
- Understands and adheres to confidentiality rights of clients, co-workers and agency
- Practices self-care, has a sense of humor, and possesses a healthy work/ life balance
- Ensures the safety & comfort of others by communicating the presence of hazards, injuries, equipment problems or any need for help
- Attends supervision consistently and comes prepared
- Documents supervision
- Able to receive feedback and to learn from it
- Has insight about self (i.e. strengths and weaknesses) and utilizes that knowledge toward growth and change
- Maintains a regular and long-term relationship with their families
- Establish a trusting relationship and strong rapport with Families
- Assist in strengthening the parent-child relationship
- Assist parents in improving their skills to optimize the home environment and parenting practices
- Assist in increasing the family support system and increase the family’s ability to problem solve and assume the role of advocating for themselves and their children
- Responsible for assisting the family in establishing goals and a plan for the accomplishment of those goals
- Utilize the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-3) and ASQ-Social Emotional (ASQ-SE) to assess the normal growth and development of the target child
- Identify, make and facilitate any referals to community services, agencies, or systems as indicated
- Acquiring all necessary documentation from families as well as inputting documentation into PATsys and relevant information into charts
- Meet all deadlines for paperwork as well as make sure screenings and all required assessments and components of PAT curriculum and PAT documentation are done within the required timeframes
- Utilize NJIIS with login to gather relevant immunization information
- Build caseload by reaching out to CNJ referrals
- Complete required documentation in PATsys for referral outreach and status of pending enrollments
- Perform outreach in the community to discuss the PAT program and Home Visiting services to educate and recruit families
- Facilitate and assist in Group Connections events
- Experience in working with culturally diverse communities/families and the ability to be culturally sensitive and appropriate
- Demonstrates good writing and organizational skills
- Previous experience with demonstrated success in community outreach and marketing
- Proven ability to work effectively on a team as well as strong Cultural Competence skills
- Experience delivering evidence-based curricula, strong clerical, organizational, and computer skills
- A respectful, professional demeanor and proven ability to work with diverse populations
- Maturity and experience in working with children (0-5 years of age) and their families for at least two years
- Knowledge of normal child growth/development and parent-child relationships
- Ability to relate to families from a strength-based model; ability to approach families from a family-centered service model
- Demonstrates motivation and ability to learn and practice basic supportive skills
- Knowledgeable about community resources
- Ability to establish and maintain personal/programmatic boundaries, while providing supportive services
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to relate to individuals who may not share basic commonality, including value system and behavior norms
- Believes in and is comfortable with advocating for nurturing, nonviolent discipline of children
- Must be fluent in English, Spanish bilingual ability strongly preferred
- Knowledge of inputting data into computer systems
- Ability to work with children ages 0 to 3 and their parents or caregivers
- Report program coordinator
- Assist in marketing and recruiting families for PAT
- Comfortable working in the home with families and within the community
- Comfortable with public speaking and advertising program
- Assist program coordinator in performing tasks needed to implement program
- Some nights will be required, based on family need
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability
- Retirement plans
- Supplementary benefits
- Vacation
- Personal days
- Sick days
- 12 paid holidays
- Summer wellness Fridays
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Internal/external trainings
- Capella University partnership
- 403b retirement plan with employer matching
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Employer-paid Long-term Disability (LTD) insurance
- Employer-paid Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
