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) plays a vital role in empowering families throughout their journey in the Parents as Teachers Program. From pregnancy to a child’s fifth birthday, the PE builds lasting connections with families, offering personalized home visits filled with guidance, support, and practical resources. By fostering strong parent-child interactions, development-centered parenting, and overall family well-being, the PE ensures that parents feel confident in nurturing their child’s emotional, behavioral, and physical growth, every step of the way.
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.
- Demonstrates motivation and ability to learn and practice basic supportive skills.
- 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.)
- 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.
- Handles other assignments as requested
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
- Flexible availability for home visits and community outreach/tabling events.
- 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.
- Computer literacy required.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
All PMCH employees must comply with the guidelines of PMCH’s Immunization Policy.