Home Visitor

Family Connections, Inc. • East Orange, NJ

1d • $25 • Onsite

About The Position

Provides home visiting services to Essex County families.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Early Childhood or a related field
• 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.
• Possess ability to be non-judgmental, empathetic, patient and tactful.

Nice To Haves

• Spanish bilingual ability strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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 (i.e. when there is a vacancy).
• Performs required tasks according to the program philosophy, policies and procedures.
• Is courteous, approachable, and cooperative towards co- workers, clients, support staff, and others and conducts self in a mature, competent, confident, and respectful manner.
• Understands and adheres to confidentiality rights of clients, co-workers and agency, consistent with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), and protects personal health information in written, verbal and electronic forms.
• Practices self-care, has a sense of humor, and possesses a healthy work/ life balance important to providing great customer service.
• Ensures the safety & comfort of others by communicating the presence of hazards, injuries, equipment problems or any need for help and knows the emergency evacuation and all other safety policies (universal precautions, etc.).
• In times of crisis is willing to help others, and communicates urgent information quickly to supervisor / Team.
• Maintains good attendance (i.e. Maintains FT or PT schedule as contracted, and attendance does not impair or negatively affect the team.)
• Is punctual for client appointments, meetings, etc.
• Meets program productivity requirements.
• Uses good judgment, practices ethical decision-making, and explores all options in problem
• 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.
• The parent educator (PE) is responsible for maintaining a regular and long-term relationship with their families, with a Level of Service of 18 families at any given time.
• Activity will occur within the family’s home; each visit utilizing the PAT curriculum, with a focus on the 3 main components of a visit.
• Visits should last for one hour.
• The interventions should be family-centered and strength-based.
• 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 that promote the optimal development of children.
• 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, utilizing the PAT Goal Plan.
• Will 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.
• Responsible for 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 (Table at Health Fairs, Visit OBGYN offices, Libraries, Churches etc.) 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
• 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.

Benefits

• Benefits include medical, dental, life insurance, long term disability, retirement plans, and additional supplementary benefits.
• You will also be eligible to accrue vacation, personal, and sick days in addition to 12 paid holidays, and summer wellness Fridays.
• Benefits also include professional development assistance, referral program, internal/external trainings, Capella University partnership, 403b retirement plan with employer matching (3% max) (you can enroll in your 403b without a waiting period) , employer-paid life insurance, employer paid Long-term Disability (LTD) insurance, employer paid Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, etc.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level