Family Worker/Floater (Long Island City)

SCO Family of Services•Long Island City, NY

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This role provides classroom support as a floater, fulfilling assistant teacher duties when in the classroom. The Family Worker/Floater is responsible for managing eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance to meet the needs of income-eligible families and in response to community assessment. This position ensures the program maintains its funded enrollment level and waiting list, fills vacancies as needed, and analyzes enrollment data to inform planning. The role also addresses absenteeism, ensures completion of child health screenings and other assessments, and oversees parent orientations and community recruitment efforts. A key aspect of this role is assisting families in identifying their strengths, needs, and goals, and linking them to necessary services such as health, social services, disabilities, early childhood education, and parent development training. Collaboration with classroom teachers is essential for facilitating children's transitions and progress. The position involves planning parent activities, encouraging participation, and gathering feedback on service satisfaction. The Family Worker/Floater will attend various meetings, promote parent involvement, and facilitate parent committee meetings in collaboration with leadership. Developing relationships with community-based service providers through linkage agreements is also a responsibility. Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of community resources and social services trends, maintaining timely records, documenting services, and following up on student absences are critical. The role requires entering service data into management information systems and ensuring adherence to all programming requirements and performance outcome standards. Other duties as assigned will also be part of this role.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in social work or a related field.
Candidates without a Bachelor’s degree but with experience in early childhood education and working with families will be considered.
Relevant experience working with children and families in a community-based program
Demonstrated ability to stay abreast of developments in best practice and research relating to early education and family engagement
Ability to establish supportive relationships with children and families from diverse backgrounds

Responsibilities

Provide classroom support as a floater, fulfilling assistant teacher duties when in the classroom
Manage eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance meeting the needs of income-eligible families and in response to community assessment.
Ensure program maintains funded enrollment level and waiting list, fill vacancies as needed at the individual sites and analyze enrollment data to inform the planning process
Analyze causes of absenteeism when average daily attendance falls below 90%
Ensure the completion of the child health screening, other required screenings and assessments and is familiar with referral requirements
Oversee the planning and implementation of parent orientation
Participate in recruiting children from the community
Assisting families in determining family strengths, needs, and goals
Refer and link children and parents to needed services including health and social services, disabilities, early childhood education and care services, and a range of parent development training opportunities
Collaborate with classroom teachers to facilitate children's transitions and progress in the classroom
Planning parent activities, encourage parent participation in program activities and obtain feedback from parents regarding the level of satisfaction with the services they receive
Attend family support team meetings, staff meetings, staff trainings, collaborations and planning meetings
Promote and maintain parent involvement in activities, and services
In collaboration with Educational Director or Center Director, facilitate parent committee meetings
Develop relationships with other community-based service providers that provide needed services to families by completing linkage agreement.
Maintain a working knowledge of community resources and current trends in social services
Maintain records and document services in a timely manner
Implement protocols to follow up on students’ absences
Enter service data into the management information system (EI: WES , Myschool and ChildPlus)
Ensure implementation of all programming requirements in adherence to all performance outcome standards as prescribed by the multiple funding and model requirements
Perform other duties as assigned