Home Visitor

About the role

Oregon Child Development Coalition (OCDC) is a nonprofit organization serving children and families across Oregon through early education and family support programs. At OCDC, our work has purpose. Every role contributes to creating stronger families, healthier communities, and brighter futures for children across Oregon.

Responsibilities

• Engages in mutually respectful, goal-oriented partnerships with families to promote parent-child relationships and family well-being.
• Uses positive communication and active listening techniques with children and families to establish and maintain relationships.
• Fosters meaningful, reciprocal relationships that are both culturally receptive and responsive to meet families where they are and engages them in opportunities to identify their own interests, strengths, needs, and resources.
• Maintains effective relationships within professional boundaries.
• Respects and responds appropriately to the culture, language, values, and family structures of each family served.
• Demonstrates a non-judgmental, respectful approach with children and families.
• Provides materials to families that are culturally and linguistically appropriate.
• Safeguards the privacy and confidentiality of all information obtained during the course of employment.
• Supports families’ safety, health, financial stability, life goals, and aspirations.
• Works with families as they identify and achieve their goals.
• Supports family members’ efforts to connect with and be responsible for their child at all ages and stages of development.
• Facilitates networks and group activities that support families’ strengths, interests, and needs.
• Provides or connects families with opportunities that support health, safety, family literacy, and family well-being.
• Edifies parents on policy council and other available committee or community opportunities that will promote parent leadership and advocacy.
• Includes parents as active participants in groups and training so they can share skills, culture, and talents.
• Supports parents as they engage in volunteering, collaborating with the community, and other ways of contributing to program activities and the larger community.
• Establishes and maintains effective community partnerships that support family wellness and children’s learning and development.
• Supports families in using community resources that enhance family well-being and children’s learning and development.
• Collaborates with agency staff and partners with families as they access services from community partners such as health, mental health, child development, early intervention, or child welfare as indicated to address specific issues or family needs.
• Links parents to education and training that contribute to self-sufficiency and to reaching goals around their education and/or career training.
• Links families to resources and provides referrals to community agencies to obtain emergency assistance, health, mental health, and dental services, including ensuring the establishment of medical and dental homes.
• Follows up with families on the effectiveness of referrals to community resources.
• Engages with families as equal partners in learning about their child while acknowledging parents as the primary nurturer, first and life-long educator and advocate.
• Engages with parents in sharing child development outcome information in an understandable family-friendly format.
• Collaborates with families to use ongoing developmental assessment tools to plan for meaningful individualized experiences that address all developmental domains while using materials that reflect family home environment, culture, and language and incorporates plans for children with special health and education needs.
• Partners with parents to ensure that health and developmental screenings, assessments and evaluations are conducted, and follow-up has occurred in a timely manner.
• Shares information about children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development and the importance of the home language (with families of children who are multilingual learners).
• Enhances the parent-child relationship and supports parents’ role as the first and lifelong educators of their children.
• Collaborates with families to plan and provide home visits that discuss child and family progress, provides parents with prenatal and child development education and promotes parents as primary nurturers and teachers through parent-child interactions.
• Uses family input, developmental assessments, and selected curriculum resources to plan and facilitate socializations that foster individual child development through parent-child relationships.
• Provides opportunities for families to learn about expectant parenting and prenatal health, the developing role of young parents (for adolescent parents), and/or about their role as new mothers and fathers.
• Provides families with appropriate information, training, and connections to future early care and educational settings to help facilitate the transition process for parents and children.
• Performs effective recordkeeping and internal and external reporting tasks to track individual child, family, and program progress.
• Enters data and runs reports utilizing electronic tracking system.
• Compiles, documents, and sorts data related to program services and individual child development and family case management.
• Uses data results to inform the design of workshops, meetings, and other activities for children and families.
• Collects and analyzes information to find new solutions to challenges as part of ongoing monitoring in order to continuously improve services.
• Tracks child development outcomes that align with OCDC’s school readiness goals.
• Acts as a member of a comprehensive services team so that family service activities are coordinated and integrated throughout the program and community.
• Collaborates with agency staff and community partners from multiple disciplines to deliver comprehensive services.
• Ensures that pertinent knowledge about families is appropriately shared with colleagues and professionals in a way that assures confidentiality and increases service coordination.
• Maintains positive team relations with other staff by working to resolve issues and problems among co-workers cooperatively and respectfully.
• Affirms and applies the principles and values of OCDC’s Code of Ethics, Code of Behavior, and Code of Conduct.
• Maintains confidence and protects agency operations by keeping information confidential in compliance with OCDC policy and procedures.
• Applies safety practices in all facets of the performance of duties in compliance with safety standards and immediately reports any unsafe or hazardous working conditions and/or any injury.
• Abides by the Head Start Standards of Conduct.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED: AND Current home visitor’s child development associate (CDA) credential.
• AND Minimum 3 years of experience working directly with children from prenatal to 3 years of age and their families.
• OR Associates Degree Or Higher In Early childhood education or child development WITH training or coursework with a focus on both infant and toddler development and family relations; or Any field and coursework equivalent to a major relating to early childhood education or child development WITH training or coursework with a focus on both infant and toddler development and family relations.
• And Minimum 1 year of experience working directly with children from prenatal to 3 years of age and their families.

Benefits

OCDC offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial wellbeing, and work–life balance. Eligible employees (20+ hours/week) may receive: Medical, dental, and vision insurance Retirement plan with employer contribution Paid time off, sick leave, holidays, and paid leave programs Employer paid life and disability coverage, with voluntary options available Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness resources Optional benefits including pet insurance At OCDC, employee wellbeing is a priority and an essential part of supporting our mission and communities.

Pay Range

The pay range for this position is $22.69 to $28.37 hourly. Placement within the range is determined by factors such as relevant experience, skills, certifications, and internal equity.

Equal Employment Opportunity

OCDC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law. OCDC is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation. If you need an accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please let us know.