Family Educator-Home Visitation Services -Bach Degree Required

Sunbeam Family Services • Oklahoma City, OK

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About The Position

The Family Educator in Home Visitation Services provides expectant mothers and children, aged birth to 3, with a full range of family and child development services through home visits and group socialization experiences. The Family Educator develops and maintains supportive relationships with parents/legal guardians, children and extended family by providing consistent developmental guidance and support to pregnant and new parents, enabling them to enhance early relational health. All employees and volunteers are expected to be sensitive to our clients' cultural and socioeconomic characteristics, reflect sunbeam family services core values and to perform as sunbeam's standards of excellence at all times.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Child Development or Family Studies with emphasis in Child Development and/or related degree.
• Home Visitation Child Development Credential (Home Based CDA) or complete the Home Based CDA within 1 calendar year (12 months) from date of employment.
• Experience working directly with at-risk families.
• Caring and compassionate attitude when interacting with and caring for children and families.
• Accepting interpersonal approach that reflects cultural sensitivity to the unique and diverse experiences of families served.
• Able to effectively communicate in a manner that consistently demonstrates respect and concern for others.
• Excellent command of English language and grammar, both verbal and written.
• Willingness to work with high-risk, low-income communities.
• Able to exercise sound judgment and to appropriately respond to stressful situations.
• Intermediate knowledge of computer operations and applications and the ability to master other computer technology/software programs, as needed.
• Process, protect and exercise discretion in handling confidential information and materials.
• Excellent problem solving, time management, and organizational skills.
• Able to work as a cooperative and supportive interdisciplinary team member.
• Sustained concentration to detail and accuracy, along with the ability to prioritize workload.
• Valid Oklahoma driver's license and state required vehicle insurance for any vehicle used in performance of job duties.
• Knowledge and Understanding of Head Start Performance Standards and state and local childcare license requirements.

Nice To Haves

• One (1) year experience working directly with at-risk families.
• Advanced computer database and Microsoft software application knowledge.
• Bilingual Spanish/English speaking ability to interact with children and families from multilingual homes.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate capacity for providing developmentally sensitive, hope centered, trauma informed relationship-focused evidence-based/informed services and supports.
• Collaborating with parents/legal guardians to plan each 1.5 hour weekly home visit and lesson plan.
• Setting goals with parents/legal guardians and providing experiences for optimal development and learning through promotion of parent/legal guardian-child interactions, observations and interventions.
• Promoting and facilitating parents/legal guardians and child interactions and well-being.
• Providing and using materials found in the home to support implementation of the curriculum to enhance learning in the natural environment.
• Maintaining weekly contact with parents/legal guardians and complete documentation, on all services, including assessment/observations, into Child Plus.
• Develop individual lesson plans with goals identified by parents/legal guardians.
• Update reports, including milestone achievements, observations, consultations and referrals. This includes updating of the Individual Family Partnership Agreement.
• Schedule, plan and conduct socializations twice monthly, involving parents/legal guardians and their children in a group setting to allow for developmentally appropriate activities, education and parent/legal guardian to parent/legal guardian support.
• Develop with each participant an Individual Family Partnership Agreement that includes educational and developmental goals, roles and responsibilities for the family, primary care giver and enrolled child(ren).
• Provide evening home visits in order to accommodate an individual family's work/school schedule, as needed.
• Provide opportunities for parent/legal guardian caregivers to increase their skills in child observation and encourage them to share observations to help inform learning experiences.
• Collaborate with content coordinators (Health, Mental Health, Disabilities, etc.) to assure compliance with Head Start Performance Standards and program expectations.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration among caregiver, ECS and community partners to meet the family and children's needs.
• Create a Transition Plan with family to support movement of a child from home based services to center based services as desired by family or when the child reaches 2.5 years of age and is aging out of program at age 3 years.
• Gather and maintain individual and family files for purposes of documentation, ongoing assessment, evaluation and recording keeping for successful individual and program planning with information obtained through family history.
• Remain current in child development field to enhance professional development and help ensure quality services.
• Establish and maintain a reflective relationship for learning with the Home Based supervisor that is characterized regular communication, clear expectations, mutual sharing, and feedback about the challenges and opportunities presented in the day-to-day work.
• Recognize that the job description is service area specific and that a successful employee upholds the overall employment standards outlined in the Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual and specifically, but not limited to: confidentiality, child abuse and neglect reporting, attendance and dependability, appropriate dress, support to all families, prudent use of program resources, data entry and promoting and maintaining safe work environment.
• Bilingual staff will communicate and translate conversations as it relates to the services rendered to the families they serve, not limited to meetings, home visits, lesson plans, socialization, curriculum, and Policy Council Meetings.
• Perform required and other assigned duties in a manner that demonstrates compliance with Sunbeam and program policy / procedures and applicable grants/contracts.
• Travel locally as required in the performance of responsibilities.
• Perform other appropriate and related responsibilities as assigned by supervisor or Executive Team.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Social Assistance
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees