Early Head Start Home Visitor
B'Above World Wide Institute
Date Posted: 01/26/2023
Location: Richmond Hill, New York
Salary/Wage:
$37,500 - $42,000 a year
Job Type: NOT_SPECIFIED
Work Arrangement: NOT_SPECIFIED
Description:
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Conduct weekly 90 minute home visits with each family.
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Create and maintain respectful partnerships with families.
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Travel to family home and deliver health, educational, nutritional and child growth and development information to parents via weekly meetings.
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Provide support in parent and child activities that encourages developmentally appropriate activities for the changing needs of infants and toddlers.
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Help conduct bi-monthly socializations for infants/toddlers and their primary caregivers.
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Develop and utilize lesson plans (using Parents-As-Teachers curriculum & Creative Curriculum) which reflect both mandated elements and parental and cultural influences, and which promote the social emotional, physical, and cognitive development of Head Start children.
Responsibilities:
- Must be willing to travel within the Queens area daily/weekly (mostly around Corona) and at times work in an office at our Headquarters location in Richmond Hill.
- Plan and attend weekly home visits for up to 12 children & attend socialization groups 2x per month
- Conducting parent interviews and family needs assessments.
- Conducting developmental screening and assessments.
- Providing families with developmentally appropriate activities and information designed to enhance the child's intellectual, social-emotional, motor, and language abilities.
- Assisting with recruiting and enrolling eligible families in the program.
- Providing program parents with guidance on home safety, nutrition, effective discipline, constructive play activities, and other related topics.
- Providing information on community and agency services and referring families to community resources
- Build respectful, culturally responsive, and trusting relationships with families.
Qualifications:
- Must be 18 years of age and a High School graduate
- Bilingual in Spanish required
- Have a minimum of a Infant/Toddler Home-Based Child Development Associate (CDA) or comparable credential, or a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education with at least 12 Infant/Toddler specific credits
- Experience working with children ages 3 months-2 years old
Application Instructions:
Email resume to cdiamond.beabove@gmail.com or cdiamond@babove.com
Call (718) 408-5847 for more information
Additional Information:
Benefits:
- 401(k) (not matching)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule: