Bilingual Family Development Advocate Ehs - Los Angeles, United States - PACE

PACE
PACE
Verified Company
Los Angeles, United States

2 weeks ago

Mark Lane

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Mark Lane

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Description

Position Compensation:
$20.0192/hr

- $23.2154/hr plus excellent benefits.

Pace offers a
Total Rewards Package to its employees:

  • 401k
  • Vacation
  • Sick pay
  • 14 Paid Holidays
  • Pet Insurance


  • FSA

  • Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Care
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Affordable Medical, Dental, and Vision packages extended to your family as well.
  • Supplemental Insurance Plans
  • Opportunity to promote within, just to name a few.

JOB PURPOSE:


Conducts basic social casework and coordinates related parent involvement services, including guiding parents in their children's education and development, coordinating health, nutrition, mental health, disability, and parent involvement related services for families, and being the point person for family case management.


POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:


ESSENTIAL DUTIES OF THE POSITION INCLUDE:

  • Obtain child and family information and complete service area forms accurately and completely in their entirety upon acceptance of the child and family into the program.
  • Identify children with special placement considerations.
  • Manage a caseload of up to 44 children at a given time.
  • Conducts family assessment of each enrolled family by identifying family strengths, interests and needs.
  • Assist enrolled families in developing Individualized Family Partnership Agreement Plans, research on resources and support the plans including periodic follow ups.
  • Conduct vision and hearing health screenings for enrolled children.
  • Conducts follow ups with the required health screenings per required periodicity of the Bright Futures Guidelines.
  • Maintain ongoing communication and followups with inhouse Service Area Coordinators and outside Health providers to obtain necessary health requirements.
  • Conducts home visits with designated site staff to follow up on required family and health services as needed.
  • Develop a plan of action with families who are having challenges with absences.
  • Participate in planning and conducting Parent Committee Meetings with Parent Committee and site Staff.
  • Ensures that Parent Committee Minutes are translated and posted by the due date as required.
  • Participate in planning and coordinating Parent Education Workshops.
  • Monitor Parent Bulletin board once a month during parent meetings to ensure current events and required postings are maintained for related Head Start information.
  • Participate in Multidisciplinary Team Meetings as needed.
  • Work closely with service area staff to address parents' concerns or complaints.
  • Track family goals and produce weekly, monthly and quarterly reports on family development progress.
  • Advocate on behalf of parents with public and private service agencies to acquire needed family services.
  • Report signs of child abuse, neglect or unsafe living conditions to the proper authorities for appropriate action to ensure the safety of children.
  • Data Entry of activities as required in Child Plus database.
  • Maintains orderly records, including electronically.
  • Provide translation and interpretation services for nonEnglish speaking parents.
  • Attended staff development training to acquire skills and increase knowledge to enhance the quality of services.
  • Supports and ensures the achievement of recruitment and enrollment goals.
  • Assists in accomplishing the program's nonfederal match through the access of community resources (services, donations, discounts, and/or goods).
  • Collect and review nonfederal match documentation when administrative support does not have the capacity to complete the required report when due to fiscal department monthly.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:


  • Experience providing social services to families and basic knowledge of social work, particularly in the context of early childhood development.
  • Must have excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with parents, community members, and staff.
  • Ability to work with diverse populations, including people of various cultural, ethnic, language and socioeconomic backgrounds.
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects and to coordinate meetings.
  • Availability to work on weekday evenings and/or Saturdays for family development activities, as needed.
  • Data Entry skills and experience.
  • Bilingual in Spanish is required (written and orally).

EXPERIENCE:


  • 1year minimum experience in social work or family development, preferably in an early childhood development setting.

EDUCATION:


  • Bachelors or
  • Associate of Arts degree or
  • Family Development Credential and High School Diploma.

LICENSE/CREDENTIAL/PERMIT:


  • Family Development Credential achieved within the first year of employment as schedule permits by LACOE.
  • Completion of Child Plus data entry training within the first 6 months of employment
  • Valid California Driver's License, auto insurance coverage and reliable transportation for field work
  • Must pass Dep
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