EHS Home Visitor Teacher

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description: Home Based Visitor

JOB TITLE

Home Based Visitor

PROGRAM

Early Head Start -Hidalgo

REPORTS TO

ERSEA Family Community Manager

SALARY

$18.55 Hourly

LOCATION

Edinburg, TX

JOB TYPE

Non - Exempt 

WORK SCHEDULE

Full Time Position, Five days per week, 40 hours per week, 12 months a year   

General Description

A Home Visitor works with Early Head Start Families, children, pregnant women, and staff in assessing and responding to the individual needs of enrolled children and pregnant women through home visit services. This person works independently and within a team to implement, and ensure compliance with, Head Start Performance Standards and state Childcare Licensing Regulations.  

About You

The ideal candidate for our program is: 

• A self-motivated and dedicated person who is excited and passionate about helping infants, toddlers, and families grow in development and in education. 

Minimum Qualifications

• A home-based CDA Credential or Family Development Credential or a comparable credential with equivalent coursework in Early Education/Child Development.  
• Valid driver's license, ability to pass criminal record clearance, and pre-employment requirements. 

 

What You’ll Be Doing  

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Collaborate with Family Advocates with the recruitment and enrollment of families to include supporting an active waiting list and maintaining an active caseload.  
• Plan, facilitate, and maintain two socialization events per month that meet the developmental needs of infants and toddlers and encourage parent/child interactions.  
• Establish a stimulating, safe, and rich learning socialization environment with distinct learning areas and develop lesson plans for socialization events.   
• Coordinate and assist with scheduling activities and program events.  
• Conduct at a minimum, weekly 90-minute home visits with enrolled families and children and support all service components at each visit. 
• Model positive parent/child interactions, and developmentally appropriate practice implementing a research-based curriculum. 
• Work with parents to strengthen their knowledge of child development through anecdotal observations and evaluations of home visits.  
• In partnership with parents, conduct children’s observations, developmental screenings, and assessments.   
• Support parents to develop and implement individual education goals and plans.  
• In partnership with parents, implement individualized activities to support children with disabilities and/or with challenging behaviors, based on children’s developmental goals.  
• Support the Early Intervention Services referral process for children with developmental concerns.  
• Recruit and encourage parents to participate in parent meetings and Policy Council.    
• Support parents with the family strength/needs assessment and family goal-setting process.  
• Build partnerships in the community with agencies/programs that provide services to children and families served.  
• Refer families to the community for additional services to support their needs.
• Interacts and communicates effectively with co-workers, customers, and community members professionally and respectfully.  
• Immediately reports child abuse/maltreatment in compliance with state laws, the program’s policies, and procedures.  
• Maintains confidentiality of information regarding children, families, staff, and program issues.  
• Follows health and safety protocols. 
• Communicate effectively with the direct supervisor, the management team, and peers. 
• Follow the home-based services policies and procedures. 
• Participates in all required meetings and training, and shares ideas or suggestions with colleagues as appropriate.  
• Performs other job-related duties as necessary or assigned.    

PHYSICAL RESPONSIBILITIES  

Ability to see at normal distance, hear normal conversations and sounds and use hands and fingers to fill out required forms. Ability to lift infants and toddlers weighing up to forty (40) pounds, twenty (20) pounds overhead and forty (40) pounds from waist to shoulder; occasional lifting of fifty (50) pounds is required and must be able to push/pull up to fifty pounds horizontally. Ability to sit on the floor, bend at the waist, kneel and/or stoop 75% of the time.

The physical demands described here 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 as long as the staff disability does not create an undue risk of injury to any enrolled children in the classroom.

About Urban Strategies

Urban Strategies exists to equip, resource and connect faith- and community-based organizations so that all children and families can reach their full potential. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., our team serves in the U.S. mainland, Puerto Rico, and Central America.

COMPANY CULTURE

Our work is driven by our three core values:

1. Authentic Relationships are foundational to our work and move beyond a transactional nature to truly know people. They serve as opportunities for mutual development and growth and are based on the belief that all people have inherent dignity and worth.
2. Servant Leadership is rooted in an other-centric mindset that informs the way one leads and builds up individuals, families, and communities.
3. Intentional Compassion describes a deliberate commitment to understand, formulate strategic responses, and activate others to reach their full potential. 

BENEFITS

• Remote work for eligible positions.
• Medical and Dental is paid 95% by company and 5% by employee (individual or family). 
• Vision is covered 100% (individual or family).
• 401K matched contributions up to 4%.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Vacation time is generous but varies depending on program and position. 
• 9 Sick Days and 11 Holidays.
• Every teammate gets long and short-term disability free.
• Positions that require laptops, the company provides one.
• Positions that require cellphone, company issues one.

PERKS

• Meaningful employee engagement programs.
• Education discounts (BA-PhD) with a variety of education partners. 

OTHER

• Employment is conditional pending satisfactory results of all required tests and background checks. 

Urban Strategies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or other legally protected classifications under applicable federal, state and local legal protections. 

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Equal Opportunity Employer