Parent Educator-Parents as Teachers

Latino Community Development Agency•Oklahoma City, OK

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Parent Educator (PE) shares research-based information and utilize evidence-based practices by partnering, facilitating and reflecting with families through home-based services for the PAT program. This role implements the Parents as Teachers model to families in Oklahoma County, providing home-based parent education and support services. Home visits are scheduled at the convenience of the family to meet their needs. The PE focuses on three key areas of the PAT model: Parent-Child interaction, Development-centered parenting, and Family well-being. Responsibilities include conducting family-centered assessments, administering developmental screenings, developing Family Goal Plans in partnership with families, and promoting healthy childhood growth and development through ongoing screenings. The role also involves improving the family's support system by linking them with needed services and tracking referrals, encouraging participation in group connections, and providing transportation when necessary and approved by a supervisor. The Parent Educator participates in weekly supervision and staff meetings, engages in public awareness and community outreach, and is responsible for organizing and completing all required paperwork according to program manuals and guidelines. Maintaining proper records in the family file and/or ETO data system, with home visit documentation entered within 48 hours, is crucial. The position requires collaboration with various agencies and organizations to advocate for Hispanics and compliance with guidelines for Community-Based Family Resources and Support Programs and Parents as Teachers Essential Requirements. Participation in Continues Quality Improvement (CQI) activities is also expected.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in early childhood development, social work, or other related field
Possess valid driver’s license and must maintain current automobile liability insurance
Bilingual in English and Spanish
Ability to provide family-centered parent education, support services, and developmental guidance in accordance with the Parents as Teachers model.
Ability to conduct assessments, developmental screenings, and goal planning while maintaining accurate and timely documentation.
Ability to build trusting relationships with families and connect them with community resources and support services.
Ability to manage caseloads, maintain records in ETO, and complete required reports and paperwork within established timelines.
Ability to collaborate with community organizations, participate in outreach activities, and support continuous quality improvement initiatives.

Nice To Haves

Pre-service and orientation training
PAT Foundational I, II and Partnering with Teens
Ages & Stages Questionnaire (ASQ/ASQ-SE)
Additional training given within the first year of training: Strengthening Families, HIPAA; ETO Home Visitor Safety; Family/Domestic Violence; Grief; Newborn Screenings; Documentation; Cultural Competency, Family Planning; Child Passenger Safety; Tobacco Cessation; CAME; Medicaid/TANF; Resources; Employment & Education; Attachment; Maternal Depression; Reproductive Health; Breastfeeding; Nutrition; Adoption; Special Needs; Substance Abuse/Addictive Behaviors; Mental Health Issues; Keys to Caregiving, and Safe Sleep/SIDS.

Responsibilities

Implement Parents as Teachers model to families in Oklahoma County.
Provide written information about the program services including Consent for Services Forms and Families’ Rights and Confidentiality Policy to prospective participants.
Provide home-based parent education and support service.
Maintain a caseload of 20 families visited twice per month.
Focus in the three areas of emphasis of the PAT model: Parent-Child interaction; Development-centered parenting and Family well-being.
Conduct a family-centered assessment within 120 days of enrollment and annually thereafter.
Administer, score and report the Ages & Stages Child development screenings.
Develop in a partnership with the family a Family Goal Plan, according to family’s strengths and needs.
Promote healthy childhood growth and development by providing on-going child developmental screenings- Ages and Stages, Vision, Hearing and milestones.
Improve the family’s support system by linking the family with needed services and maintaining a record in the Referral Tracking form (including follow-ups of the referral).
Encourage home-based families to participate in the group connections.
Provide transportation as needed related to the child’s health and safety with supervisor’s approval.
Participate in a minimum of one hour of weekly individual supervision and in a minimum of one hour of weekly staff meeting.
Participate in Public Awareness and Community Outreach activities.
Organize and complete all required paperwork set forth by this invitation to bid, the Program Implementation Procedures Manual and the Program Evaluation Procedures Manual.
Maintain proper records on the family file and/or in our data system, ETO.
Enter the home visit documentation in ETO within 48hrs.
Collaborate with various agencies and organizations to advocate for Hispanics.
Comply with guidelines for Community-Based Family Resources and Support Programs and the Parents as Teachers Essential Requirements.
Fully participate in Continues Quality Improvement (CQI) activities.