FAMILY Advocate - Hooper Bay Head Start

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Vacancy Name

Vacancy No

Vacancy No VN928

Employment Type

Employment Type

Full Time Non-Exempt

Location

Salary Range

Salary Range $24.50

Salary Period

Salary Period Hourly

Benefits Full-time, eligible to participate in the benefit programs on the first day of the month after your 60th day of employment.

This position is 35 hours per week, 37 weeks per year with summer layoff. Promotes a healthy relationship between Head Start families and their community by implementing a strengths-based approach to family services. Encourages family involvement in the Head Start program and act as a liaison between the classroom and the home. Fosters the belief that parents are the child’s first and most important teacher.

• Ensures compliance with all applicable federal and state regulations, Head Start Performance Standards, agency and Child Development Division Head Start/Early Head Start Policies and Procedures, Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), and the Head Start Work Plan.
• Establishes partnerships with parents that are respectful, culturally sensitive, and nonjudgmental.
• Involves parents in identifying and addressing their family’s goals, strengths, and needs.
• Assists and supports parents to schedule, attend and participate in monthly Parent Committee meetings and Parent Experiences.
• Provides a minimum of two home visits, with monthly contacts, to each family throughout the school year and provide additional home visits as appropriate.
• Communicates observations, concerns and important information about children and families during Monthly Staffing with Teachers and Teacher Aides.
• Participates in Family Checks twice a year with Teachers, Teacher Aides and Family/Health Coordinators.
• Works to ensure mandatory health screenings and immunizations are completed, documented, tracked and submitted to Central Office.
• Provides support to families when health referrals are made, providing continual follow-up and documentation until services have been received.
• Develops new and strengthens existing partnerships with local, regional and state providers.
• Develops and maintains on-site community resource files.
• Documents all services provided for families.

• Participates in Family Partnership meetings when appropriate.
• Participates in weekly staff meetings, regular supervisory meetings and all required training.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Ability to read, comprehend, and follow established policies and procedures.
• Ability to manage work time well, prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Ability to establish good rapport with people of diverse cultures and belief systems.
• Ability to respond quickly to children’s needs and emergency situations.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Must demonstrate sound judgment, professional boundaries, ethics, and ability to maintain confidentiality.

• General office working environment and families’ homes.
• Capable of reading, understanding, and following written procedures and policies related to job responsibilities.
• Develops and maintains constructive and cooperative working relationships with others.
• Uses computers and computer programs effectively to enter data, create spreadsheets and process information, and to develop documents, and program and training materials.
• Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work.
• Must be willing and able to flex schedule for evening and weekend work to accommodate parent schedules for home visits, Parent Committee meetings and Parent Experiences.
• Communicates with others outside the organization, representing the organization to customers,…