Job Details

Parent Educator

Hoomau Home Visiting is a program to help parents provide a safe, healthy, nurturing environment for their young children. Hoomau Home Visiting Program "works together" with families by offering home visits that help parents/caregivers provide a safe, healthy, nurturing environment for their children. Mothers, fathers, and other caregivers on Oahu are encouraged to participate.

The Parent Educator provides home visiting services to families with young children that have been involved with alleged child abuse and neglect or child abuse and neglect through Child Welfare Services to improve maternal and child health, child health and safety and child development knowledge. This position communicates with family members, internal team members, service providers and community partners. This position is under the direct supervision of the Program Supervisor.

Essential Duties:

• Conducts home visiting services to low to high-risk families with young children, ages 0-3 in a manner consistent with standards and guidelines established by funders, state law and policies and procedures of the agency and in a manner that will improve the self-confidence of caregivers. In partnership with families, curriculum materials are used to promote positive parent and child interaction and parenting, increase child development knowledge, promote family's interaction with the community and improve health-seeking behaviors. Monitors the quality of services to all families, including the implementation of the team approach.
• In partnership with the family and the team, develops a meaningful Family Service Plan (FSP) that addresses risk factors and maternal child health and safety.
• Administers developmental screens and assessments such as the ASQ, ASQ-SE, hearing, and vision screen, along with parenting assessment, such as the AAPI.
• Completes clear, concise, and non-judgmental written and electronic documentation, such as initial assessments, monthly updates, and closing reports, and ensuring that all paperwork is completed and submitted in a timely manner.
• Provides linkage to community resources and follow-up with support services as needed, teaching families to identify and access resources throughout the process.
• Conducts creative outreach activities designed to engage hard-to-reach families, in a consistent, yet respectful manner.
• Maintains effective working relationships with referral source, Child Welfare Services (CWS) community partners, state agencies, funders, and other appropriate providers of home visitation services.

Minimum Qualifications:

High School Diploma or equivalent required plus two (2) years previous supervised work experience with young children and/or parents.

Other:

1. Possesses and maintains a valid driver's license and daily access to an automobile.
2. Possesses and maintains proof of no-fault insurance.
3. Can obtain an acceptable pre-hire driver's abstract.
4. Can obtain an acceptable criminal background check upon hire, one year later, and annually thereafter.
5. Can obtain an acceptable CWS background check. upon hire, one year later, and annually thereafter.
6. Can obtain an acceptable National Sex Offender Registry Check upon hire, one year later, and annually thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in early childhood education, social work, health, psychology, or a related field highly desired.