Parenting Support Services Parent Educator - Bilingual

Bridges Healthcare • New Haven, CT

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

Position provides home-based parenting education, support, and advocacy to families seeking support in strengthening parenting skills, improving family relationships, and creating safe and nurturing home environments. Utilizing a strengths-based, family-centered approach, works collaboratively with parents and caregivers to build positive parenting skills, strengthen parent-child relationships, promote healthy child development, and create safe, stable, and nurturing home environments. Through individualized home visits, evidence-based parenting curricula, ongoing assessment, and connection to community resources, helps families identify their strengths, address challenges, and work toward meaningful goals that support family well-being. Provides culturally responsive services in both English and Spanish, builds trusting relationships with families, and collaborates with community partners to promote positive outcomes for children and families.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required
• Bilingual English/Spanish required (read/write/speak)
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Knowledge about culturally sensitive positive parenting skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of family systems and the issues related to child abuse and neglect identification, prevention and treatment.
• Knowledge of age-appropriate child development and parenting skills.
• Ability to work with professionals as part of a team.
• Demonstrated problem-solving, written and verbal communication skills.
• Computer literacy required.
• Knowledge of community resources.
• Must be comfortable conducting home visits.
• Access to reliable transportation on a consistent basis.
• Valid driver's license and automobile insurance required.

Nice To Haves

• two years' experience with children and families preferred
• Certification in Positive Parenting Program and Circle of Security a plus

Responsibilities

• Plan, prepare and conduct home visitations to assigned families where children have been identified through program screening criteria as being "at risk" for abuse and/or neglect.
• Maintain a flexible work schedule to meet families' needs for appointments, including evening appointments
• Utilize program-approved curricula including Circle of Security and the Positive Parenting Program in home visitations to improve parenting skills and increase the understanding of child development
• Provide age-appropriate home-based parenting education including information about child development, positive parenting, child safety, health, literacy and other aspects of positive parenting based on approved curricula
• Assist families to identify, access and make effective use of community resources, make referrals, provide accompaniment as needed and advocate on behalf of families when indicated
• Conduct ongoing assessment of family strengths, needs, and resources.
• Develop strength-based family service plans to identify goals and address areas identified as strengths and challenges
• Plan and conduct parent education groups
• Assist in training new staff
• Maintain collaborative relationship with agency's /program's partners
• Immediately notifies supervisory staff of situations in which children may be at risk (i.e. abuse, neglect) and/or another sentinel event
• Make case presentations and participate in case conference meetings as scheduled
• Represent the agency in related neighborhood and community meetings, groups, and committees
• Attend Staff Meetings and other agency and program required meetings
• Prepare for, attend, and actively participate in regularly scheduled supervisory meetings with the Parenting Support Services Director
• Complete and maintain all record keeping documentation as required by the agency and its funding sources
• Assist in the development and presentation of child abuse prevention and family strengthening activity materials
• Attend educational training as related to scope of work duties
• Promote the agency's services, programs, image, and philosophy to the public
• Responsible for managing own time and schedule
• Perform any other reasonably related duties assigned by the Parenting Support Services Director
• Maintain timely, accurate, organized, and complete individual case files
• Maintain strict confidentiality
• Follow and abide by all policies and procedures as described in the Personnel Policies and Procedures Handbook

Benefits

• Competitive pay commensurate with experience
• Medical and Dental with significant employer contribution to the premiums and HSA (if chosen as your plan)
• 403(b) with a generous employer contribution
• Employer-Paid Life Insurance
• Paid Vacation with 22 days to start
• paid personal days
• paid sick time
• paid winter holiday break days
• 11 paid holidays

What This Job Offers

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