SafeCare® Parent Educator Part-Time

Description

JOB SUMMARY

SafeCare® is an evidence-based, voluntary, free in-home parent education program that serves caregivers of children 0 to 5 residing within Tulsa County. The philosophy of SafeCare® is to ensure all children have a nurturing, safe, and healthy home environment through training, implementation support, and research. The goal of the Lutzker SafeCare® Program Model is to meet caregivers where they are at to reduce the risk of abuse and neglect through informed positive parenting where Parent Educators support caregivers in their home to: 1) strengthen the caregiver-infant/child relationship, 2) to enhance home safety & health awareness, 3) to increase positive interaction skills in managing challenging child behaviors and 4) increasing awareness of healthy relationships- through education, family intervention planning, parenting skills training, intensive case management and direct support.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

•  Provide home visitation services, in alignment with the research based SafeCare® curriculum & module standards, to families in the Tulsa and surrounding area. Assists parents by teaching child development, positive parenting practices, safety/health awareness, healthy relationships, and parent-child interaction activities.
• SafeCare® Parent Educators engage and build relationships with client families from a trauma-informed, strength-based perspective model by initiating and maintaining regular contact (visiting each family once a week for one hour) and support for families in their homes. Families that complete the SafeCare® program are typically engaged in services for 9-12 months with consistent participation.
• Ability to develop, maintain and model healthy & positive working relationships with clients/families who may have experienced trauma, have their own attachment, relationship and interpersonal communication challenges; Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with our community partners and stakeholders. Represent PCCT for community outreach at Emergency Infant Services (EIS) once per month.
• Effectively manage assigned caseload of 6 families (built up within 6 months from hire) and complete required documentation within the agency and Council of Accreditation (COA) standard of 48 hours maximum.
• Monitor, complete and document required assessments, goal-planning, and parenting education by completing comprehensive psychosocial assessments, Individual Family Support Plans (IFSPs) and SafeCare® program assessments and screenings accurately and within the time frames specified. The Parent Educator will administer additional protocols and screenings as identified by the Program Manager and the outcome evaluators.
• Provide accurate, timely, well-organized documentation and electronic chart management of all services and resources offered, provided, referred to and closed out/discharged from; as well as documentation of progress/ barriers on family goals and progress notes as well as other program-required documentation.
• Recognizes the need for additional professional intervention &/or other community services; demonstrates ability to make appropriate and effective referrals, to follow-up to ensure that referrals were successful and provide timely documentation of these interactions.
• Displays ability to work independently- appropriately managing work time; on time attendance to scheduled client visits, supervision sessions, meetings, & trainings; ability to identify priorities; dependable, organized, good initiative and problem-solving skills; knows when to reach out for additional guidance and support. Demonstrates the agency’s values of hope, compassion, respect, adaptability and a learning / growth mindset.
• Participates in required agency & SafeCare® trainings / observations within established timeframes. SafeCare® staff requirements: complete a seven hour training for each module; shadowed for 9 months by the coach/supervisor (2 observations and coaching sessions/month) for support in meeting fidelity of modules, processing any challenges, and becoming a certified SafeCare® provider. *After certification staff is shadowed once a month to keep fidelity and process challenges.
• Other duties as assigned by the SafeCare® Program Manager.

Requirements

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree: Social Work, Human Relations, Education, Psychology, or related field.
•  Effective verbal and written communication skills. Ability to adapt communication style to suit different audiences from a non-judgmental stance. Effective facilitation and teaching skills. Ability to engage in and facilitate direct, healthy, effective, crucial conversations with clients, caregivers and co-workers.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
•  Exce