Bilingual Home Visitor

Job Description

Job Description

Start Early (formerly known as the Ounce) is an energized, future-focused organization committed to providing quality early learning and care across the country.

Our desire to close the opportunity gap and build more early learning experiences for our youngest learners guides everything we do. As a leader in early learning and care, we scale our deep expertise across program, policy, and research through partnerships across the country.

We are recruiting individuals who want to join us in this mission and share a commitment to our core values of appreciation & respect, empowerment, diversity, excellence, learning, and communication . Become part of our rewarding, mission-driven culture. We want our employees to feel empowered, motivated, energized, and passionate about the work they do.

The Bilingual Home Visitor is responsible for providing comprehensive case management services to enhance the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of participating children and families in the Head Start / Early Head Start home-based program. Arrange and provide a variety of educational experiences for parents and children to reduce isolation, integrating them into the larger community, expanding social networks, and improving parenting skills. Ensures compliance with Head Start / Early Head Start guidelines and regulations.

Reporting to the Program Administrator, you will :

Responsibilities :

• Serves as an advocate for Head Start families and as a liaison between families and the program. Make referrals to the appropriate services and conduct follow-ups to assure delivery of needed assistance.
• Provide in-home information and support to parents and children to enhance the parents’ ability to fill the role of primary nurturer for their child.
• Work jointly with parents to develop and implement 90-minute weekly home visit plans based on each child’s assessment and identified family needs that offer a variety of stimulating, creative, engaging learning experiences for parents and children that are developmentally appropriate.
• Engage and encourage parents to participate in program activities such as parent-child activities during home visits, socialization, parent meetings, and other training events as appropriate.
• Observe, assess, and document each child’s health, skills, behavior, growth, and development. Participates in case management screenings and staffing.
• Maintain documentation of all services in the individual family files and ensure up-to-date program files for each family and child. Maintains and preserves a confidential family file.
• Participates in ongoing training and staff development provided by Start Early, other consultants, workshops, and conferences. Attend regularly scheduled staff meetings, education meetings, social service meetings, and health meetings.
• Implements procedures for recruitment and actively recruits for the program. Attend recruitment events.
• Assists in identifying children with special needs and supports the process of necessary referrals.
• Integrates other components, i.e., health, nutrition, mental health, parent involvement, and special needs / individualization into the home visit.
• Works collaboratively to provide children with group socialization experiences in conjunction with the peer Home Visiting team.

Qualifications :

Salary :

Our generous benefit plan includes :

Comprehensive Health Plans, Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion, Holistic Wellness Program, Professional Development Program, 401k Contribution, Paid Volunteer Days, 6 months paid parental leave, and much more.

Start Early is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to our core values by creating an inclusive environment for all staff.