Job description
PARENT EDUCATOR - FULL TIME
Job Description
Qualifications:
Required:
A minimum of 2 years experience in a program serving families and their young children, with 60 college credit hours.
Preferred:
College degree in early childhood development, family studies, social work or a related field.
FLSA:
Non-Exempt
Direct Report:
Parent as Teachers Supervisor
Terms of Employment:
12 Month
Eligible for emergency telework:
Yes
Purpose:
Specific work hours are established by home visit appointments set by parent educators and Early Childhood Developmental Screening events for the community of St. Joseph. Families are expected to receive visits during a 12-month period and will require evening and weekend hours.
Essential Job Functions:
- Attend work in a regular, reliable and punctual manner.
- To "telework" when requested by the District.
- Partner with families to find and verbalize their strengths as parents and their resilience as a family system.
- Facilitate conversations regarding child development and family well-being.
- Reflect with parents on their own parenting practices, helping them identify their goals as parents.
- Highlight a family’s protective factors to increase their resilience.
- Connect families with resources depending on their individual needs.
- Implement the approved PAT Curriculum.
- Screen children between 3 months and 3 years of age during the personal visit using a developmental screening as well as a health, hearing and vision screening.
- Provide written and verbal summaries of screening results to parents.
Screening:
- Assist in mass screenings by implementing the approved screening tool for 3, 4 or 5-year olds.
Organization and Management
:
- Prepare and distribute materials on child development/parenting to PAT families
- Maintain files to include records of all screenings and the required documents by DESE
- Enter family contacts and screening information into PAT database
- Write comprehensive reports from each family visit
Interpersonal Relationships:
- Establishes good rapport and maintains an on-going positive relationship with each family in the program through active listening, encouragement, affirmation, guidance and reflection.
- Demonstrate positive interpersonal relations with district personnel
- Demonstrate positive interpersonal relations with outside agencies
Professional Responsibilities:
- Complete the required professional development for annual recertification with Parents as Teachers National Center
- Follow the policies and procedures of the school district
- Demonstrate a sense of professional responsibility, and exercise thoughtful independent judgment and discretion
- Participate in the planning and presentation of group connections
- Other duties as assigned.
Employee Behavior and Conduct:
District employees shall conduct themselves in a professional manner and shall exhibit and extend such professional conduct appropriate for the circumstances to those with whom they come into contact, both internally and externally during the performance of their duties. Examples of professional conduct include, but are not limited to, being communicative, informative, fair, honest, and respectful.
EOE
Please watch for email communications from our district. If selected for an interview you may be contacted via email.
Primary Location
To Be Assigned
Salary Range
Per Year
Shift Type
Full-Time
JOB CONTACT INFORMATION
Name
Lori Monger
Title
Recruiter
Phone
816-671-4000
Email
lori.monger@sjsd.k12.mo.us
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