Bilingual Home Visitor

We are hiring in Lake County.

Start Early Lake County provides high-quality care, best-in-class education, and a stimulating learning environment to children from birth to five years old. As a program that serves low-income families, Start Early’s research-based program helps children develop the literacy, language, early math, and social-emotional skills they need to succeed in kindergarten and beyond.

We are recruiting individuals who want to join us in this mission and share a commitment to our core values of appreciation & respect, empowerment, diversity, excellence, learning, and communication.

The Bilingual Home Visitor will provide early, continuous, intensive and comprehensive child development and family support services to eligible pregnant women, infants, toddlers and their families through a series of weekly home visits (90 minutes) and scheduled socializations activities. The EHS home visitor will design, plan and carry out developmentally appropriate experiences that meet all component areas of Head Start, the school readiness goals established by the program and the individual needs of the child. Each Home Visitor will maintain a maximum caseload of 12 infants, toddlers and/or pregnant women.

As the Bilingual Home Visitor, you will:

• Provide in-home information and support to pregnant women, parents and children to enhance the parents’ ability to fill the role of primary nurturer for their child.
• Work jointly with parents to develop and implement 90-minute weekly home visit plans based on each child’s assessment and identified family needs that offers a variety of stimulating, creative engaging learning experiences for parents and children that are developmentally appropriate.
• Engage and encourage parents to participate in program activities such as parent-child activities during home visits, socialization, parent meetings, and other training events as appropriate.
• Observe, assess, and document each child’s health, skills, behavior, growth and development. Participates in case management screenings and staffing's.
• Maintain documentation of all services in the individual family files and ensure up to date program files for each family and child. Maintains and preserves a confidential family file.
• Participates in on-going training and staff development provided by Start Early, other consultants, workshops and conferences. Attend regularly scheduled staff meetings, education meetings, social service and health meetings.
• Implements procedures for recruitment and actively recruit for the program. Attend recruitment events
• Assists in identifying children with special needs and supports the process of necessary referrals.
• Integrates other components, i.e., health, nutrition, mental health, parent involvement and special needs/individualization into the home visit.
• Works collaboratively to provide pregnant women and children with group socialization experiences in conjunction with peer Home Visiting team.

Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree in Child Development or a related field required. Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Child Development or a related field preferred.
• Bilingual Spanish Required (Must be able to read, write, and speak Spanish proficiently)
• Minimum of one to three years of experience working in early childhood/family support or home visiting program.
• Knowledgeable of theories and principles of healthy child growth and development.
• Experience in creating comprehensive developmental activities for parents and children, program development, and assessing the quality of services.
• Working knowledge of community resources, family welfare, and government assistance programs.
• Communicate effectively and function well w