Bilingual Parenting Educator

Description

Workdays: Monday - Friday
Works Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: 1115 Mission Rd., San Antonio, TX. 78210


Mission: Seton Home works to break the cycle of abuse and poverty by providing a caring home, education, and support services necessary to transform the lives of pregnant and parenting teen mothers and their children.

Summary:

The Parenting Educator Provide treatment and administrative tasks assigned to the Parenting Education Department (PED). The Parenting Educator will maintain a caseload of 23-30 Seton Home clients to include parenting education in group, small group, and individual settings. The Parenting Educator will train and collaborate with direct care staff on a regular basis so that all education will be reinforced in daily interactions with the clients. The Parenting Educator will document parenting services in a timely manner and reflect appropriate interventions to the clients. Parenting Educator serves as a part of the interdisciplinary team that develops and supports the families.

Position Responsibilities:

• *Maintain a caseload of individual sessions and/or group classes.
• *Substitute for Parent Coordinator as necessary in facilitating parenting groups, individual sessions, and/or developmental screenings.
• *Create, measure, and update parenting goals and objectives for assigned residents’ Plans of Service, transfer, and discharge summaries.
• *Maintain continuous communication with appropriate Seton Home staff to discuss resident’s progress in the parenting program.
• *Conduct parenting related staff development trainings with staff members.
• Assists with maintaining accurate reports of program performance.
• Serve as point staff person to collect, enter, and communicate program performance to include AAPI-2 scores, ASQ-3, class attendance and other performance measures in internal database as required on time. Alert supervisor when PE does not report data on-time.
• Schedule guest speakers to conduct presentations on pertinent parenting topics.
• Coordinate with other agencies, schools, and/or hospitals to provide programs, training, and/or services for the residents related to pregnancy or parenting.
• Inform residential and daycare staff of current infant/child safety recalls monthly.
• Other duties as assigned by Director or Vice President.

Competencies:

Advocacy

Building Collaboration

Customer Service

Teamwork

Integrity / Honesty

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education
  • Bachelor’s degree in behavioral sciences, human services, child development or social service fields or related fields.
• Experience
  • Preferred 2 years’ experience teaching parenting skills to adolescent mothers preferred.
  • Minimum of 1-year employment experience teaching parenting skills to adolescent mothers preferred.
• License and Credentials
  • Reliable transportation.
  • Valid driver license.
  • Valid vehicle insurance.
• Submit to a state and federal background check, Child abuse and neglect registry check, and Tuberculosis screening.
• Be physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of performing assigned tasks and have the skills necessary to perform essential duties and responsibilities

Able to show proof of immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases transmitted by the respiratory route if working directly with unaccompanied children.

• Varicella: two doses of varicella vaccine (at least 4 weeks apart) OR born in the United States before 1980 with a reported history of chickenpox (verified by an adult present at the time of illness) OR titers indicating varicella immunity OR documentation from healthcare provider verifying previous infection.
• MMR: two doses of MMR vaccine (at least 4 weeks apart) OR titers indicating immunity to all three diseases
• DTaP or DTap: Complete primary vaccination series. If primary vaccination series completed in childhood, one DTaP dose in adulthood.
• Influenza: one dose annually during flu season.

Minimum Knowledge and Skills:

• Working knowledge of TDFPS Minimum Standards, and Office of Refugee Resettlement- Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services National Care Standards.
• Possess therapeutic sensitivity to the service population cultural and socio-economic characteristics.
• Experience with computer software and MS Office (i.e. MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and OneDrive).
• Must be detail oriented, organized, self-motivated, work well independently and on a team.
• Must have good written and verbal skills.
• Must have good