The PAT Educator is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the PAT Home Visiting Project curriculum and incorporate three roles of a parent educator: partnering, facilitating, and reflecting into daily practice with families. Some evening hours will be required to ensure families have access to visits and meetings.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Learn and demonstrate understanding of the three roles of a parent educator
- Demonstrate knowledge about the Parents as Teachers model including the Essential Requirements necessary for model fidelity.
- Conduct personal visits (50-60 minutes) using the Parents as Teachers curriculum on a weekly or bi-weekly basis with each family.
- Plan visits, gather materials, travel, conduct the visit, and accurately document the visit and the process toward the defined outcome.
- Provide case management and crisis intervention services as needed by family.
- Provide parent group connections focusing on a minimum of one of the following areas of emphasis: parent-child interactions, development-centered parenting, or family well-being.
- Complete developmental, health, vision and hearing screenings on each child every year or as required by program model.
- Develop and maintain a community resource network in order to be able to link families with them as needed.
- Maintain and submit all required family and program documentation within 48 hours of visit.
- Meet minimum of twice monthly with supervisor for reflective supervision sessions.
- Help parents and children transition to other services as needed to preschool or to kindergarten.
- Complete annually required competency-based professional development hours in order to remain a certified Parents as Teacher parent educator.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood, social work or a related field.
Skills/Experience:
- Supervised experience working with young children and/or parents.
- Excellent verbal, written, and computer communication skills required. Proven comfort level with public presentations.
- Follows instruction and good follow through abilities.
- Ability to work well with others and in a team environment.
- Bilingual capabilities desired.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jul 28 2019
Active Until:
Aug 28 2019
Hiring Organization:
Easterseals
industry:
Nonprofit