EHS Family Advocate​/Home Visitor Teacher

Home Based Visitor

A Home Visitor works with Early Head Start Families, children, pregnant women, and staff in assessing and responding to the individual needs of enrolled children and pregnant women through home visit services. This person works independently and within a team to implement, and ensure compliance with, Head Start Performance Standards and state Childcare Licensing Regulations.

The ideal candidate for our program is:

• A self-motivated and dedicated person who is excited and passionate about helping infants, toddlers, and families grow in development and in education.

Minimum qualifications:

• A home-based CDA Credential or Family Development Credential or a comparable credential with equivalent coursework in Early Education/Child Development.
• Valid driver's license, ability to pass criminal record clearance, and pre-employment requirements.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate with Family Advocates with the recruitment and enrollment of families to include supporting an active waiting list and maintaining an active caseload.
• Plan, facilitate, and maintain two socialization events per month that meet the developmental needs of infants and toddlers and encourage parent/child interactions.
• Establish a stimulating, safe, and rich learning socialization environment with distinct learning areas and develop lesson plans for socialization events.
• Coordinate and assist with scheduling activities and program events.
• Conduct at a minimum, weekly 90-minute home visits with enrolled families and children and support all service components at each visit.
• Model positive parent/child interactions, and developmentally appropriate practice implementing a research-based curriculum.
• Work with parents to strengthen their knowledge of child development through anecdotal observations and evaluations of home visits.
• In partnership with parents, conduct children's observations, developmental screenings, and assessments.
• Support parents to develop and implement individual education goals and plans.
• In partnership with parents, implement individualized activities to support children with disabilities and/or with challenging behaviors, based on children's developmental goals.
• Support the Early Intervention Services referral process for children with developmental concerns.
• Recruit and encourage parents to participate in parent meetings and Policy Council.
• Support parents with the family strength/needs assessment and family goal-setting process.
• Build partnerships in the community with agencies/programs that provide services to children and families served.
• Refer families to the community for additional services to support their needs.
• Interacts and communicates effectively with co-workers, customers, and community members professionally and respectfully.
• Immediately reports child abuse/maltreatment in compliance with state laws, the program's policies, and procedures.
• Maintains confidentiality of information regarding children, families, staff, and program issues.

Physical responsibilities:

Ability to see at normal distance, hear normal conversations and sounds and use hands and fingers to fill out required forms. Ability to lift infants and toddlers weighing up to forty (40) pounds, twenty (20) pounds overhead and forty (40) pounds from waist to shoulder; occasional lifting of fifty (50) pounds is required and must be able to push/pull up to fifty pounds horizontally.

Ability to sit on the floor, bend at the waist, kneel and/or stoop 75% of the time.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions as long as the staff disability does not create an undue risk of injury to any enrolled children in the classroom.

About Urban Strategies:

Urban Strategies exists to equip, resource and connect faith- and community-based organizations so that all children and families can reach their full potential. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., our team serves in the U.S. mainland, Puerto Rico, and Central America.

Company culture:

Our work is driven by our three core values:

Benefits:

• Remote work for eligible positions.
• Urban Strategies offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage. In addition to these benefits, we provide company-paid life and disability insurance.
• 401K matched…