Family Child Specialist - Early Headstart (59250)
About The Position
University Settlement partners with 40,000 New Yorkers on the Lower East Side and in Brooklyn every year to build on their strengths as they achieve healthy, stable, and remarkable lives. For over 135 years, weve collaborated with our neighbors to pioneer highly effective programs that fight poverty and systemic inequality. Established in 1886 as the first Settlement House in the United States, we bring the values of that movement into the 21st century by meeting New Yorkers where they live, listening deeply to all perspectives, engaging with every individual holistically, and creating space for people to organize. Joining together with our neighbors to advocate for justice and equality, we help build community strength. We work with New Yorkers of all ages. We infuse a commitment to civic engagement, equity, and communal action into each of our programs, which include early childhood education, mental health and wellness, benefits assistance and eviction prevention, adult literacy and education, healthy aging, community, and recreation centers, performing and visual arts, and youth development.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Early Childhood Education, Social Work, Human Development or related field with knowledge of child development (birth to three) required
- At least five years of experience working with families providing home visits and facilitating classroom-based group sessions
- Bilingual English/Mandarin or English/Cantonese required
Responsibilities
- Administer developmental screenings on children enrolled in the program
- Coordinate specific program services
- Manage a caseload of families and conduct home visits
- Lead center-based socialization groups
- Implement an engaging, challenging, and playful classroom curriculum
- Develop goals for children in the classroom based on developmental assessment
- Provide guidance and training to less experienced staff
- Develop consistent, stable, and supportive relationships with families and children
- Be part of a team in assessing family needs and child developmental status
- Be part of a team in developing an individualized family/child plan addressing family and child needs
- Provide appropriate services to families/children based on the individualized family plan
- Work closely with families on specific issues and difficulties those individual families are experiencing
- Provide families with appropriate referrals and follow-up with families and service providers on referrals
- Provide workshops to families and staff
- Assist in the recruitment of families
- Assist in developing the Parent Council and other parent support groups
- Maintain proper documentation on families and children
- Other duties as requested by supervisor to fulfill job responsibilities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
