Position: PC+ (Parent Child Plus) Home Visitor
Position Type: Part-time, 0.4fte (10-18 per week)
Department: CFCE
Location: Watertown Public Schools
Reports to: CFCE Grant Coordinator
Affiliation: Non-Aligned
Salary range: $23.00/Hourly
General Description:
The PC+ home visitor goes into the family''s home weekly, exploring their child''s growth and development and helping parents explore how their relationship supports their child''s development.
Responsibilities:
- Completes a minimum of 16-hours of training prior to beginning home visits.
- Attends and participates in weekly supervisory and training (minimum two-hour) staff meetings.
- Visits with assigned families, in their homes, on a twice weekly basis, demonstrating reading, play, and verbal interaction behaviors with two or three-year-old children and their parents or primary caretakers.
- Completes required paperwork on a weekly basis, including preparing reports on each visit and conducting regular child development and parent-child interaction assessments.
- Keeps all family information confidential except as required by law.
Qualifications Required:
- Experience working with diverse families and knowledge of their needs is preferred
- Warmth and patience in dealing with toddlers and families.
- Enjoys working independently and carrying out work responsibilities without daily
- supervision.
- Non-judgmental attitude toward families and other staff.
- Is flexible in the home setting, can respond to a variety of circumstances as they occur, and shows good judgment in seeking support and guidance when needed.
- Interested in learning about the model and in being a life-long learner.
- Knows the community where they will work.
- Experience working with young children or parents and/or with community-based
- organizations.
- Deep knowledge and understanding of, and demonstrated ability to connect with the ethnic background of students and families served.
- Fluent in English and either Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, or Pushto and are familiar with the community they will serve.
Preferred:
- Experience in a home base, school or community setting working with children
- Candidates who speak another language bring added value to the district culture and diversity.
Physical Demands:
- Regular travel to family homes within the community.
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs and engage in activities with children.
- Frequent use of a vehicle for home visits.
- May navigate stairs or uneven surfaces during visits.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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