Family Worker/Floater (Long Island City)

Responsibilities

• Provide classroom support as a floater, fulfilling assistant teacher duties when in the classroom


• Manage eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance meeting the needs of income-eligible families and in response to community assessment.


• Ensure program maintains funded enrollment level and waiting list, fill vacancies as needed at the individual sites and analyze enrollment data to inform the planning process


• Analyze causes of absenteeism when average daily attendance falls below 90%


• Ensure the completion of the child health screening, other required screenings and assessments and is familiar with referral requirements


• Oversee the planning and implementation of parent orientation


• Participate in recruiting children from the community


• Assisting families in determining family strengths, needs, and goals


• Refer and link children and parents to needed services including health and social services, disabilities, early childhood education and care services, and a range of parent development training opportunities


• Collaborate with classroom teachers to facilitate children's transitions and progress in the classroom


• Planning parent activities, encourage parent participation in program activities and obtain feedback from parents regarding the level of satisfaction with the services they receive


• Attend family support team meetings, staff meetings, staff trainings, collaborations and planning meetings


• Promote and maintain parent involvement in activities, and services


• In collaboration with Educational Director or Center Director, facilitate parent committee meetings


• Develop relationships with other community-based service providers that provide needed services to families by completing linkage agreement.


• Maintain a working knowledge of community resources and current trends in social services


• Maintain records and document services in a timely manner


• Implement protocols to follow up on students’ absences


• Enter service data into the management information system (EI: WES , Myschool and ChildPlus)


• Ensure implementation of all programming requirements in adherence to all performance outcome standards as prescribed by the multiple funding and model requirements


• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in social work or a related field. Candidates without a Bachelor’s degree but with experience in early childhood education and working with families will be considered.


• Relevant experience working with children and families in a community-based program


• Demonstrated ability to stay abreast of developments in best practice and research relating to early education and family engagement


• Ability to establish supportive relationships with children and families from diverse backgrounds