Home Visitor

Description:

The Home Visitor, Responsibilities:

• The Home Visitor provides weekly home visits to parents that promote secure parent-child relationships and help parents provide high-quality, early learning experiences in language, literacy, mathematics, social and emotional functioning, approaches to learning, science, physical skills, and creative arts to their children.
• The Home Visitor is expected to Build respectful, culturally responsive, and trusting relationship with families; plan all home visits jointly with parents; and effectively communicate the critical role of parents in the development of their children.
• The Home Visitor must demonstrate competency to plan and implement home-based learning experiences that ensure effective implementation of the home visiting curriculum and promote children's progress across the standards described in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Ages Birth to five, including for children with disabilities and dual language learners, as appropriate.
• The primary focus of the Home Visitor is to develop a collaborative relationship with families to support them by being their child's first and primary educator.

Job Location/Schedule:

• Bronx
• No remote option

Requirements:

• Minimum CDA with Home Base extension. An AA or BA in Early Childhood, Human Services or Psychology with some EC credits.
• Experience working in Early Childhood Education, prenatal care, home visiting, teaching and or community health.
• Bilingual is a plus.