Parent Educator

Job Summary

Provide regularly scheduled personalized home visits and parent group socialization services to eligible children and their families. Implement the Parent as Teachers model emphasizing parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting, and family well-being in their work with families. Utilizing the PAT Foundational Curricula in culturally sensitive ways, the parent educator partners, facilitates, and reflects with families. Sets precedent within limits and/or administers operating rules and procedures under management guidance. Performs intermediate troubleshooting or analysis; problems require interpretation of data using generally prescribed procedures. Frequent interaction to provide basic information and/or occasional interaction requiring detailed procedural explanations or technical responses.

Responsibilities/Essential Functions

• Partner with parents to increase understanding of child development, appropriate expectations, and methods to facilitate learning through regularly scheduled home visits.
• Facilitate parent child interactions to stimulate growth in cognitive, language, social, and motor skills.
• Plan, provide, and document personal visits focused on parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting, and family well-being.
• Maintain and submit all required family and program documentation in the appropriate database on a timely manner.
• Plan and facilitate parent group socializations with both, parents and children through age-appropriate experiences.
• Implement home visiting model using the Parent as Teachers curriculum on the appropriate frequency and duration.
• Assess families' needs and connects families to appropriate agencies/services.
• Conduct child’s health and developmental screenings as scheduled; submit referrals to appropriate service providers, and follow up on services.
• Complete initial and annual family assessments and develop and review goals with each family.
• Travel to various locations for meetings, trainings, and events locally, which requires a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Required Education/Experience

• Fluent in English, bilingual preferred: Spanish, Zopau, or Pashto.
• Associate degree Required, Bachelor’s Degree preferred in early childhood education, social work, health, psychology, or a related field (or equivalent degree outside the U.S.)
• Supervised experience working with families and young children.
• Depending on the funding allocation for the position, a home-based CDA credential, compatible credential, or coursework equivalent to a home-based CDA credential as part of an associate or bachelor’s degree may be required.
  
  

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and possessing key characteristics (e.g., empathetic, conscientious, accepting, ethical, and non-judgmental) A commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions with ability to read, interpret, and present information efficiently and effectively.
• Ability to work independently, to take initiative, multi-task and work well under pressure.
• Must maintain strict confidentiality of extremely sensitive data, records, files, conversations, etc.
• Computer skills, including online research, email, internet, and word processing.
• Strong organizational and record-keeping skills.
  
  

Essential Physical & Mental Requirements

Primarily a field-based position with travel to parent’s homes in Tulsa County (exposure to normal traffic hazards). Work requires bending, stooping, lifting, pushing, and pulling throughout the day. Ability to lift and carry up to 25 pounds. Regular and reliable attendance required.

Pay Band Code: 13