Health and Safety Coach - Child Care Connection

Health And Safety Coach

SAL Community Services connects the community to services that ensure every child can succeed in school and life, and every adult has access to basic human needs like food, counseling, child care, and housing. We do this by listening, learning, and acting to help individuals and families navigate the barriers that prevent them from moving their life forward in a positive way.

The Health and Safety Coach works as part of the Child Care Resource and Referral team to increase practitioner quality of care through promoting best practice, sharing information and providing technical assistance on required training components, and environments in which Early Care and Education is provided by license exempt providers.

The Health & Safety Coach is considered field staff. Field staff refers to positions that require the main scope of their work to be conducted outside of the physical agency location. Field staff positions receive specific enhanced training on job related activities and should be in the field working with programs for the majority of their work time.

You will:

• Build relationships with license-exempt providers to improve quality and promote safe, developmentally appropriate care.
• Schedule and conduct on-site health and safety monitoring visits for license-exempt providers receiving Child Care Assistance Program payments across the service area.
• Identify health and safety violations in the child care environment, develop corrective action plans, and schedule follow-up visits.
• Manage the license-exempt grant process, including outreach, application intake, eligibility review, awards, and compliance tracking.
• Document visits, findings, corrective actions, and provider supports in agency and state systems; prepare and submit required reports on time.
• Facilitate Health, Safety, and Child Development trainings; verify completion of required health and safety trainings for Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) participation.

We are looking for team members who:

• Believe that early childhood education is the first step to a child's successful future;
• Have great attention to detail while working quickly and are great communicators;
• Are passionate about building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for all, and,
• Are professional, kind, and don't take themselves too seriously!

Salary, benefits and perks Our entire compensation package includes paid time off and paid holidays; health, dental, and vision benefits; 401(k) with employer contribution; and pet insurance. A full list of benefits is available on our website at salcommunityservices.org.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. A full list of job responsibilities will be provided prior to an interview. This position must obtain required background clearances. Requests for reasonable accommodation as required under applicable law will be considered.

Education and Experience

Required:

Associate degree or equivalent education and/or experience in social work, customer service, data entry or related field. Equivalent defined as college credits and/or work hours equal to two (2) full years of education and/or full - time work. Preferred:
Associate degree with 5+ years of direct experience in child care.

About The Organization Mission SAL Community Services (SAL) strengthens children, families, and individuals to build and enhance thriving communities.

EOE STATEMENT SAL Community Services is an equal opportunity employer and believes in equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. Accordingly, all employment decisions are based on the principles of equal opportunity. These decisions include recruitment, selection, promotion, transfer,…