CLASSIFICATION: Full-Time
LOCATION: Dover, New Jersey
WORK HOURS: 37.5 hours /week
SALARY: $40,000 – $45,500 /year
JOB SUMMARY:
The Parent Educator (PE) is responsible for establishing and maintaining a regular and long-term relationship with the families enrolled in the Parents as Teachers Program. The PE conducts home visitation services from pregnancy through the child’s fifth year, providing necessary information and resources, focusing on parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting, and family well-being to ensure that parents are confident in their children’s emotional, behavioral, and physical development.
Office location is in Dover, NJ. Travel within Bergen County is required.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
• Conduct family-centered and strength-based Home Visits with enrolled families.
• Plan, provide, and document home visits, screenings and assessments, outreach, and required forms in database.
• Maintain timely and accurate data entry of client information into database(s).
• Develop, monitor, and provide follow-up for established goals in coordination with the family to accomplish those goals.
• Conduct weekly outreach efforts and engage hard-to-reach clients and families referred through Connecting NJ or a Service Provider.
• Plan and facilitate educational workshops and community events to give participants opportunities to build social connections, engage with other parents, and increase their knowledge on many topics.
• Assist in increasing the family support system and family’s ability to problem-solve and assume the role of advocating for themselves and their children.
• Identify and refer to other supportive agencies and provide advocacy at appointments, as needed.
• Monitor current health and developmental trends to better assist families.
• Knowledge of normal child growth/development and parent-child relationships.
• Experience in working with community agencies, including implementing referral processes.
• Experience in working with culturally diverse communities/families and the ability to be culturally sensitive and appropriate
• Ability to relate to families from a strength-based model even in an apparently chaotic family environment; ability to approach families from a family-centered service model.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to relate to individuals who may not share basic commonalities, including value system and behavior norms.
• Demonstrates effective communication, writing, and organizational skills
• Ability to maintain personal and programmatic boundaries, while providing non-judgmental supportive services.
• Maintain manual and computerized client files in a confidential manner.
• Handles other assignments as requested.
• Demonstrates motivation and ability to learn and practice basic supportive skills.
• Flexible availability for home visits and community outreach/tabling events.
• Comfortable with long-term, ongoing projects; without requiring immediate feedback or results for personal validation.
• Believes in and is comfortable with advocating for nurturing, nonviolent discipline of children.
• Open to reflective practice (i.e. has capacity for introspection, communicates awareness of self in relation to others, recognizes value of supervision, etc.)
• Maintain own functioning vehicle in good working condition at all times.
• Ability to travel throughout New Jersey to attend required core trainings, curricula training and ongoing trainings required by the model and/or agency.
• Infant mental health endorsement level I or II preferred.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
• Minimum of a High School Diploma or GED equivalent with two years of experience in working with children (0-5 years of age) and families or a Bachelor’s Degree or higher
• Bilingual English/Spanish required
• Computer literacy required.
• Good verbal and written communication skills
All PMCH employees must comply with the guidelines of PMCH’s Immunization Policy.