Bilingual Early Head Start Home Visitor

Department:

Project Eagle

Home Based

Bilingual Early Head Start Home Visitor

Professional Staff

Project Eagle is an early childhood program focused on preparing children, engaging families, and promoting excellence for children and families in Kansas City, Kansas. Project Eagle provides home-based and center-based services to pregnant women and/or children ages birth to five through a variety of programs, the largest being Early Head Start. The Bilingual Home Visitor provides intensive, home-based early childhood education, parenting education, and family support services to voluntary participants in accordance with Head Start Performance Standards.

The Home Visitor focuses on the four cornerstones of Early Head Start child development, family development, community building, and staff development to empower families in the areas of parenting, child development, health, nutrition, mental health, and self-sufficiency, by using outcome-based interventions. The Home Visitor teaches problem-solving skills and refers families to community resources and existing service systems to promote independence.

Job Duties

• Provide structured child-focused home visiting that promotes the parents’ ability to support the child’s cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development, beginning prenatally through age three. Deliver all services and education to families in accordance with program policies/procedures and Head Start Performance Standards. In accordance with Head Start Performance Standards, maintain a caseload of ten to twelve families.

• Use an effective strength-based approach to parenting education, encouraging parents as their child’s first and most important teacher, through modeling, coaching, and guidance. Promote emergent literacy using research-based methods and strategies to support the development of literacy and language skills for all children. Develop and implement weekly prenatal care lesson plans that support the health and well-being of pregnant women to prenatal and early child development.

• Develop and implement weekly early childhood education lesson plans that support each child’s development using the Growing Great Kids curriculum, or other curricula.

• Complete developmental assessments on all children less than four years of age according to Head Start Performance Standards, as well as track developmental screenings related to health:
  Kan Be Healthy Exams, vision, hearing, lead.

• Develop and maintain current Individual Family Partnership Agreements for all families on caseload, establishing goals, reporting outcomes, brokering and referring for services, and documenting progress. Approach difficult family and individual issues in a positive manner that leads to growth to promote effective strategies that can be used to cope with crisis. Teach adults how to effectively communicate with and utilize support services within the community, to meet their goals regarding early education, healthcare, education, and employment, through role modeling and supported experiences.

• Promptly document all interventions according to program procedures and notify supervisor and appropriate coordinator immediately of any unusual or at-risk situations. Complete weekly paperwork on time as required by program guidelines, including lesson plans, home visit tracking records, contact notes, checklists, and forms. This includes accurate data entry of information as assigned according to program guidelines. Maintain organized and confidential, working and permanent files for each family on caseload.

• Participate in monthly staff meetings, quarterly retreats, and various conferences as requested. Participate in weekly trainings or others as scheduled. Participate in and support the involvement of families in the Policy Council and parent/child socializations and community groups.

• Identify and respond to the social, economic and cultural experiences of Project Eagle participants.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.…