Teacher​/Home Visitor

Hours per week: 32-40 hours/week (0.8 – 1.0 FTE) Monday – Friday availability required
Supervised by: Therapeutic Early Childhood Program (TECP) Site Supervisor
Location: Eugene, Oregon or Springfield, Oregon
Starting wage range: $23.46 – $29.61, depending on qualifications
Bonus: $1,000 bonus for Step 9 or above in the ORO system

Relief Nursery provides comprehensive family support services that are easily accessible to families who are raising children birth through five years of age and who are experiencing high levels of stress. We provide early intervention that centers on building successful and resilient children and strengthening parents. Our staff work as a team to provide a unique array of support, from therapeutic classrooms and outreach programs, to parenting education, substance use disorder recovery support and more.

We are currently hiring a Teacher/Home Visitor to help support our families. As a Teacher/Home Visitor within the Therapeutic Early Childhood Program, you’ll perform the responsibilities for the dual role of classroom teacher and home visitor using developmentally appropriate and therapeutic early childhood classroom experiences and family support.

The teacher role requires integration of the following: children’s individual and group goals; physical environment; routine; curriculum; classroom relationships; screening/assessment; readiness to learn standards and individual family issues to ensure therapeutic, developmentally appropriate experiences for the children.

The home visiting role requires fostering parent-child attachment; providing support and information for parenting; supporting and monitoring the child’s development and well-being (including safety); enhancing problem-solving skills; reducing and ameliorating risk factors and enhancing protective factors. Appropriate documentation accompanies all responsibilities in these dual roles.

Also see the attached A Day in the Life of a Relief Nursery Teacher.

• Create and maintain a therapeutic, developmentally appropriate early child classroom environment for children 6 years and younger that supports all areas of children’s development and meets all relevant therapeutic and certification standards
• Develop children’s individual goals in consideration of screening/assessment information, child observations and analysis and information about the home environment/parent-child interactions
• Update children’s individual goals regularly, based upon weekly observations and integrate into curriculum planning, adult-child interactions in the classroom and the design of the physical environment
• Plan and adapt curriculum informally daily and formally weekly with teaching assistant to reflect all relevant child goals, information and issues
• Conduct screening/assessments at appropriate intervals
• Ensure that all required documentation/paperwork is completed, shared with appropriate individuals and stored according to Relief Nursery policy and professional standards
• Communicate information about the children’s goals and guidance around appropriate child/adult and child/child interactions to all adults participating in the therapeutic classroom to ensure consistency around approach and experiences for the children

• Conduct weekly planning meetings for no less than one hour with co‑teacher and other relevant team members (e.g., supervisor, mental health counselor, special education specialist, volunteer coordinator, etc.)
• Collaborate with the co‑teacher to plan meaningful curriculum, arrange the physical environment and debrief issues/challenges on a daily basis. Balance responsibility with co‑teacher for curriculum planning, preparation, adaptation, and daily set up of the physical environment, and other relevant activities
• Serve as a role model and provide support to less experienced staff as your experience and knowledge grows
• Clean and tidy playground areas as assigned

• Schedule and conduct home visits no less than once/month per child (except during the month when parent conferences occur and vacation schedule limits access) in order to support parent’s…