Parents as Teachers Parent Educator

Salary: $17.30/hour ($36,000/year)

Position Summary: The Parent Educator is responsible for delivering all components of the Parents as Teachers (PAT) model using the PAT Foundational Curriculum, implementing the Essential Requirements and Quality Assurance Guidelines with fidelity, and collecting data requested by PAT National Center and program funders.

Technical/Functional Expectations:

1. Training: Attend all required trainings to become certified with PAT
2. Service and Treatment Delivery: Use the PAT Foundational Curriculum and resources to plan and deliver home visiting services to qualifying families and Ensure services and treatment are delivered from a strength-based framework and customized in order to meet individualized needs of consumers and are culturally competent.
3. Planning/Scheduling/Meeting multiple deadlines: Meet with supervisor as necessary to discuss procedures, protocol and other administrative processes to ensure quality record keeping, data entry and quality provision of services to families.
4. Relationship Maintenance: Maintain a caseload of families, prepare and conduct personal visits with each enrolled family and complete a range of screenings for each enrolled family. Foster and maintain ongoing relationships with family members, service providers, and identified resources in order to call on others to implement client plans.
5. On-going training: Attend staff meetings and complete annual required competency-based professional development hours to remain certified as a Parents as Teachers parent educator.
6. Documentation/accountability: Clearly document details of each visit, assessments, screenings, referrals to resources, etc. and enter into data system timely.
7. Other duties as required: Job performance requires fulfilling other incidental or related duties as assigned, assisting and training others, and performing duties of higher rated positions from time to time for developmental purposes.

Behavioral Competencies:

1. Customer Service: Able to anticipate and respond to customer needs, concerns, or questions in order to meet or exceed their expectations; help evaluate needs and options; show care and concern to demonstrate customer importance and value.
2. Consideration: Able to show respect for the feelings or needs of others; show courtesy and make others comfortable; attentive while others are speaking.
3. Integrity: Able to demonstrate consistency of words and actions; protect confidential information; practice what he/she preaches; do what is right even when no one is watching.
4. Trust and Respect: Able to demonstrate and treat others in an honest and straightforward manner; keep dealings with others confidential; keep word and follow through on commitments.
5. Self Control: Able to maintain a composed problem-solving approach when faced with unrealistic expectations, pressing time demands, frustration, or interpersonal conflict.
6. Team Work: Able to cooperate to build consensus; assist others to achieve team goals; participate in meetings so they are productive; take on extra work to meet team objectives.
7. Sensitivity: Work effectively with and show sensitivity to cultural differences and various socio-economic backgrounds of others.
8. Ethics: Adhere to and model principles and values of Agency and System of Care by being strength-based, solution-focused, maintains highest level of integrity and ethical standards and work collaboratively with employees, partners, stakeholders and clients in all interactions.

Business Experience:

1. Minimum of 2 years experience with home visiting: Demonstrated ability to work with adults and their young children in an educational setting, preferably in an agency or school setting or through participating in home visits.
2. Strong computer/data entry skills: This experience is required in order to maintain our utilization management system.
3. Valid Driver's License-Essential: This position requires a valid driver’s license in order to travel throughout the County.

Educational and Experience Requirements:

1. High School Diploma or equivalent required.
2. AA/AS - Associates Degree or equivalent preferred.
3. 2 years of experience in home visiting with families/young children
4. Physical Requirements:
   
   1. Lifting 20 pounds
   2. Carrying 20 pounds
   3. Grasping
   4. Reaching
   5. Sitting
   6. Standing
   7. Stooping / Crouching
   8. Bending
   9. Near Acuity
   10. Reading
   11. Speaking
   12. Listening
   13. Typing
   14. Writing

For more information regarding our screening process please visit Clearinghouse.com

Family Partnerships of Central Florida is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. These employers also maintain Drug-Free Workplaces. Requests for Auxiliary Aids for Hearing Impaired or Limited English Proficiency Candidates may be made with a minimum of five (5) days notice to C Hernandez at (321) 752-4650.