Parent Educator-Parents as Teachers

Job Details

Parent Educator (PE)

Location:

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73109

The Parent Educator (PE) shares research-based information and utilizes evidence-based practices by partnering, facilitating, and reflecting with families through home-based services for the PAT program.

• Implement the Parents as Teachers model to families in Oklahoma County.
• Provide written information about the program services including consent for services forms and families’ rights and confidentiality policy to prospective participants.
• Provide home-based parent education and support services (home visits should be scheduled at the convenience of the family to meet the family’s needs).
• Maintain a caseload of 20 families visited twice per month.
• Focus on the three areas of emphasis of the PAT model: parent-child interaction; development-centered parenting and family well‑being.
• Conduct a family-centered assessment within 120 days of enrollment and annually thereafter.
• Administer, score and report the Ages & Stages child development screenings.
• Develop, in partnership with the family, a family goal plan according to the family’s strengths and needs.
• Promote healthy childhood growth and development by providing ongoing child developmental screenings—Ages and Stages, vision, hearing and milestones.
• Improve the family’s support system by linking the family with needed services and maintaining a record in the referral tracking form (including follow-ups of the referral).
• Encourage home-based families to participate in group connections.
• Provide transportation as needed related to the child’s health and safety with supervisor’s approval.
• Participate in a minimum of one hour of weekly individual supervision and in a minimum of one hour of weekly staff meeting.
• Participate in public awareness and community outreach activities.
• Organize and complete all required paperwork set forth by this invitation to bid, the program implementation procedures manual and the program evaluation procedures manual.
• Maintain proper records on the family file and/or in the data system, ETO.
• Enter the home visit documentation in ETO within 48 hours.
• Collaborate with various agencies and organizations to advocate for Hispanics.
• Comply with guidelines for community-based family resources and support programs and the Parents as Teachers essential requirements.
• Fully participate in continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities.

• Ability to provide family-centered parent education, support services, and developmental guidance in accordance with the Parents as Teachers model.
• Ability to conduct assessments, developmental screenings, and goal planning while maintaining accurate and timely documentation.
• Ability to build trusting relationships with families and connect them with community resources and support services.
• Ability to manage caseloads, maintain records in ETO, and complete required reports and paperwork within established timelines.
• Ability to collaborate with community organizations, participate in outreach activities, and support continuous quality improvement initiatives.

• Pre-service and orientation training
• PAT Foundational I, II and Partnering with Teens
• Ages & Stages Questionnaire (ASQ/ASQ-SE)
• Additional training given within the first year of training:
  Strengthening Families, HIPAA, ETO
• Home Visitor Safety;
  Family/Domestic Violence;
  Grief;
  Newborn Screenings;
  Documentation;
  Cultural Competency, Family Planning;
  Child Passenger Safety;
  Tobacco Cessation; CAME;
  Medicaid/TANF;
  Resources;
  Employment & Education;
  Attachment;
  Maternal Depression;
  Reproductive Health;
  Breastfeeding;
  Nutrition;
  Adoption;
  Special Needs;
  Substance Abuse/Addictive Behaviors;
  Mental Health Issues;
  Keys to Caregiving, and Safe Sleep/SIDS.

• Bachelor’s degree in early childhood development, social work, or other related field
• Possess valid driver’s license and must maintain current automobile liability insurance
• Bilingual in English and Spanish