Parent Educator - Los Angeles, United States - PACE

PACE

Verified Company

Los Angeles, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Position Compensation:
$$24.3910/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.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

PACE Education provides high quality early childhood education with case management support services from birth to five years of age for economically disadvantaged families.

In addition to early childhood education, the program also provides case management support to assist with health, nutrition, mental health, disabilities, and parent empowerment and involvement services.

This program is funded and operated under Head Start, Early Head Start, State Preschool guidelines and regulations.

PACE Education includes Head Start & Early Head Start Center-Based Program that operates 16 school sites enrolling children ages 18 months through age 5 at local preschool sites, including a Home-Based program serving enrolled children, ages 0-3 years and pregnant women.

These services are provided in the metro Los Angeles area through Santa Monica and South Bay communities (Gardena, Torrance, Hawthorne, and Lawndale).

BASIC FUNCTION:

The EHS Parent Educator provides case management support services and appropriate child development activities to infants, toddlers, pregnant mothers, and their families.

The role of the EHS Parent Educator is to form a partnership with parents to develop and implement positive early childhood experiences for their children.

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Manage a full caseload, up to 12 families, conducting weekly, 1.

5-hour Home Visits with parents and children:

Work with parents to strengthen the family's knowledge of child development, including helping parents understand how children grow and learn.
Work with pregnant mothers and other expectant family members to help support a healthy pregnancy through the birth of their newborn.
Plan and conduct educational activities with parents to meet the child's intellectual, physical, emotional, and social needs.
Works with parents to motivate and support to complete weekly home visits, up to 85% attendance, and; participates in recruitment of children as indicated in the ERSEA plan to maintain a full caseload.
Provides respectful customer service and collaboration with parents, children, community representatives /members, and all PACE staff on a daily basis.
Manage educational services:
Develop and effectively implement an individualized weekly homebased educational plan using a researchbased curriculum that will support and strengthen a positive relationship between parent and child, promoting the parent as the child's first teacher. Help parents set up an environment that is safe, developmentally appropriate, and conducive for learning.
Conduct learning and developmental and screenings for infants and toddlers (including DRDP2015 IT, ASQ3,

ASQ:
SE-2, etc.), and; support, and follow through with the developmental screening of infants' and toddlers' motor, language, social, cognitive, perceptual, and emotional skills.

Documents child observations weekly during home visits and socializations to manage developmental strengths and needs over a period of time across different settings.
Help parents understand early child development and milestones, and; include parents in managing and reporting their child's developmental progress.
Maintain an open, friendly, and cooperative relationship with each child's family; encourage parental involvement in the program; promote parentchild bonding and nurturing parentchild relationships.
Promote School Readiness Skills based on the agency's current School Readiness Plan.
Promote feelings of security and trust in infants and toddlers by conveying warmth, supportiveness, and comfort; establish strong and caring relationships with children.
Support children with specialized needs by helping promote and implement the child's Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP). Coordinate services between families and other community agencies.
Develop an individual transition plan with families starting at 30 months (about 2 and a half years) of age and two weeks prior to the child's third birthday to ensure child access ongoing educational and community services by age three.
Conduct Bi-Weekly, Group Connections (2hour socialization group) at a designated location to support home based curriculum in a social setting with same aged peers.
Download and review ChildPlus reports monthly to ensure all data is accurate and educational deadlines are met in a timely manner; submit monthly followup reports to EHS Supervisor.
Manage health and nutrition information and provide parents with