Parent Educator

About the role

The Parent Educator plays a crucial role in ensuring quality services are provided to families, focusing on minimizing attrition and maintaining compliance with program standards.

Responsibilities

• Conduct outreach and recruitment of participants for classes, with efforts focused on minimizing attrition.
• Establish and maintain a trusting and professional working relationship with families through regular contact, including personal visits.
• Administer intake, assessments, and screening tools to clients and family members.
• Utilize intake and assessment results to establish and effectively implement goals, objectives, and activities identified with parents.
• Meet with the supervisor to evaluate the status of families on caseload.
• Develop updates, reminders, and community education information in collaboration with the Director.
• Obtain and maintain certification in SafeCare curriculum administration.
• Enroll and serve a maximum of 12-15 clients per 18–20-week sessions of services as per SafeCare guidelines.
• Provide parent and health education, case management, resource and referrals, basic needs support, transportation assistance, and/or other support services to families on caseload.
• Attend all required training.
• Record all group and individualized services and activities in a complete, concise, and timely manner utilizing program forms into all database platforms.
• Demonstrate the ability to respond sensitively and competently to the service population’s cultural and socio-economic characteristics.
• Communicate effectively in writing and verbally in English.
• Work in a fast-paced environment.
• Maintain computer literacy required to meet the responsibilities of the position.
• Work effectively and without intensive supervision both independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
• Travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Maintain certificates required for the position including but not limited to First Aid and CPR.
• Valid Texas Driver’s license with a clear driving record and reliable transportation.
• Pass a pre-employment drug screen and random drug screens.
• Provide proof or work eligibility status upon request.
• Pass a pre-employment and biennial criminal background and motor vehicle check (fingerprints needed if applicant has lived out of state within the past 5 years).

Skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Computer literacy.
• Effective communication skills.
• Ability to respond sensitively and competently to diverse populations.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Not specified.