Position: Bilingual In-Home Parent Educator
Wage: $16.01/hour
Reports to: Program Manager
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Location: Visalia, CA
Supervises: N/A
Department: In-Home Parenting
Language: English/Spanish
About Family Services:
Family Services helps children, adults, and families heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. We serve victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, child abuse, and other trauma through shelter, mental health services, and comprehensive support services. Our prevention programs also help stop the cycle of abuse. We are a private, nonprofit organization working to build a community of safe homes, safe relationships, and safe children—which means a safer, healthier community for everyone. Family Services offers salary and highly competitive benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, vacation, sick, retirement), commensurate with experience and skills. Family Services is highly committed to diversity and a workplace environment that respects, appreciates and values employees from all backgrounds.
Summary:
This position is housed in the Goshen Family Center. Participating and supporting in Family Enrichment activities and events such as food distributions, summer events, and all other events is a requirement for this position. In-Home-Parent-Educators follow evidence supported home visitor program models designed to increase child safety, wellness, and healthy development. Parent Educator will work with a combination of referred and walk-in clients from the Goshen community.
Responsibilities:
- Interview, enroll and case manage referred clients, explain programs, and complete enrollments/referrals.
- Complete assessments, service plans, correspond with CWS social workers and keep CWS social workers up-to-date with regular reports.
- Provide direct skill training to parents in the areas of home safety, child health, and parent-child interactions.
- Refer or otherwise link parents to other community agencies and resources able to provide additional services or continuing support to clients.
- Complete and maintain all client statistical and record keeping information in the Penelope software program. Maintain security and confidentiality and perform duties in a safe and healthy manner.
- Maintain professionalism and appropriate boundaries with clients. Maintain security, confidentiality and perform duties in a safe and healthy manner. Confidentiality is required due to the open case status of referred clientele.
- Attend training to ensure understanding of evidence based home visitation model used in
- program, of culturally competent practices, and other related issues and subjects.
- Utilize Covid 19 safety protocols including working remotely at times with clients.
- Attend ongoing training in a variety of topics including but not limited to, Trauma training, Evidence Practice training, ACE’s, Foodlink and others to be determined.
- Adherence to policies related to HIPAA, confidentiality, information sharing and appropriate use of agency client database.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Must demonstrate capacity to be organized and detail oriented; to communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing, in English; to work independently and as part of a team; and to follow a curriculum with fidelity.
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university required. Course work in Social Work, Human Services, and/or Child Development preferred.
- Experience: Must be English/Spanish bilingual. One year minimum of previous responsibilities related to the job duties.
- Transportation: Must possess valid California Driver License, available vehicle for daily business use, and auto insurance as required by law.
- Additional Requirements: Must receive clearance from the Department of Justice Criminal Record Offender Information database. Must complete required training. Bi-lingual, Bi-literate capacity in Spanish is preferred and may be required.
- PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORKING ENVIRONMENT: The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.
- Environment: Standard office setting as well as your home office environment; occasional travel from site to site and eventually client’s homes; occasional exposure to noise, clutter, pests and other challenging living conditions of client’s homes; stressful calls/situations.
- Physical: Primary functions require sufficient physical ability to drive for long periods of time, to work in an office setting and field environment including travel to various locations; sit for prolonged periods of time; stand for brief periods of time; climb 3-5 stairs; operate office equipment including a computer keyboard.
- Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents and to operate equipment.
- Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.
The conditions described above must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Family Services is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
To Apply
Complete our online application below or download and submit an employment application with resume and cover letter by one of the following methods:
Mail:
Family Services of Tulare County
Attn: Human Resources Coordinator
815 W. Oak
Visalia, CA 93291
E-mail: info@fstc.net
Fax: (559) 732-1987
