Early Childhood Teacher & Home Visitor

About the Job

Mountain Star Family Relief Nursery is recruiting an Early Childcare Teacher & Home Visitor to join their team in Bend, Oregon. This is your chance to be a part of something bigger and help shape the future of this vibrant community.

You believe that every child deserves the best start possible. You believe that parenting is hard even in the best circumstances. You care about children who have experienced trauma and want to work to support vulnerable families to succeed. You enjoy working with children in a trauma informed workplace and a therapeutic classroom environment. You are motivated to engage with families and offer resources so that families are supported in nurturing their child’s emotional, physical, and intellectual development.

Mountain Star Family Relief Nursery is a local non‑profit that has been in Central Oregon for 20 plus years. We are a strength‑based child abuse and neglect prevention program to support families with children ages 6 weeks through 5 years. We provide high quality trauma informed care and services for children and families experiencing high stress. Services include a therapeutic classroom emphasizing social‑emotional development, home visits, parenting classes and other full wrap around services.

• Caring – welcoming, trauma‑informed, non‑judgmental, family‑focused, compassionate, honest, and fun.
• Collaborative – engaged with clients, supporters, program partners, and communities.
• Excellence – committed to quality programs, current research, continuous learning, and robust evaluation.
• Inclusive – seek out and value diverse perspectives, understand and address systemic barriers equitably.

Mountain Star offers a comprehensive compensation and benefit package that includes 100% employer paid medical, vision, prescription, & dental (premium value of $772 monthly), Simple IRA Retirement Plan match up to 3%, vacation & sick pay accrued semi‑monthly, 11 paid holidays, Oregon Paid Leave covered in full (employee cost covered by MtStar), Wellness Reimbursement Program, and a Short‑Term Disability Plan. Mountain Star offers a professional, agile workplace with its primary goal being a workplace of choice.

Mountain Star offers excellent leadership that works hard to align strategies with the company's mission statement, core values, empower employees’ autonomy, provide trauma informed workplaces, a culture of transparency, wellness days, learning and development opportunities. Mountain Star was ranked the 100 best nonprofits to work for in 2022 and 2023, based on the survey responses of Mountain Star’s employees and their work experience.

• Wellness days and Team Appreciation days
• Growth opportunities
• Culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Engaging work with purpose

The Infant/Toddler Interventionist “Early Childhood Teacher & Home Visitor” at Mountain Star will work with children ages 6 weeks-3 years old and their families to provide a safe, therapeutic classroom, respite space and engage with parents to improve the child-parent relationship.

• Plan, organize, and facilitate a therapeutic classroom for up to 8 young children as part of a teaching team.
• Case load of 8-12 families including home visits and phone contact.
• Consistent, strength‑based home visits with families.
• Referral assistance and crises support.
• Parent coaching, goal setting and facilitating positive parent-child interaction.
• Culturally competent relationship/rapport building with parents.
• Maintain records including daily observations, home visit records, family, and child assessments.
• Serve USDA meals following guidelines and record keeping.
• Scheduled driving routes (no CDL required) in various weather conditions with company minivan/SUV.
• Support other classroom activities – at times outside of regular hours.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bilingual English/Spanish including reading, writing, and speaking effectively in both languages.
• BA/BS in Early Childhood Education or a related field with infant/toddler or preschool teaching…