Substitute Home Educator, Early Head Start

Description

Are you driven to make a meaningful impact on children’s lives and support families? Seeking valuable experience but not able to work full-time? Join us as a Substitute Early Head Start Home Educator! In this role, you’ll support families through our home-based program, leveraging your excellent communication skills, adaptability, and experience with diverse, underserved communities. Be part of a dynamic team dedicated to fostering positive family environments and promoting child growth!

Location: Redmond, Bend, La Pine, Prineville

Compensation: $27.26-29.64/hour- Depending on education level (+0.50 if Bilingual Spanish/English)

Hours: On-Call – hours not guaranteed

Benefits: Accrued paid sick time, Employee Assistance Program, retirement account options

NeighborImpact’s Early Head Start Overview

NeighborImpact’s Early Head Start program provides comprehensive early childhood education and family support services to families with children from birth to age three, as well as pregnant women. Early Head Start aims to foster school readiness and social competence, ensuring children and families receive the necessary resources and support during the critical early years.

Overview of Key Duties and Responsibilities:

The purpose of Early Head Start home-based program is to encourage and support parents as their child’s primary teacher and nurturer. This position will provide early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to eligible pregnant women, infants, and toddlers to promote secure parent-child relationships and help parents provide high-quality early learning experiences. 

This role is a substitute position and involves crafting, organizing, and documenting suitable educational activities tailored to children's developmental stages. It includes conducting weekly 90-minute home visits to monitor and achieve family objectives. Additionally, the job entails working with colleagues to coordinate bi-monthly gatherings for families. Candidates must possess outstanding communication abilities, adaptability, and experience in engaging with diverse, frequently underserved communities. This multifaceted position integrates educational, social, and community involvement elements to support positive family environments and child growth. 

Requirements

• Minimum education requirements: 

1. Associate Degree or Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Family Development or related field required. 
2. Within 18 months of hire: 120 training hours, or 11 college credit hours, in social work, human services, family services, counseling or a related field.

• Availability for some evening and weekend hours required
• Experience in Early Childhood, social services, health or family support programs providing parent education and support preferred
• Experience planning developmentally appropriate activities for infants and toddlers preferred
• Education or experience in working with adults in a helping and teaching role preferred
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred
• Head Start or Early Head Start experience preferred
• Head Start or Early Head Start parent or past parent preferred
• Access to reliable transportation required
• Required prior to date of hire and thorough employment:

1. Valid driver’s license
2. Proof of current auto insurance 
3. Food Handler’s Card
4. Current enrollment in the Oregon’s Central Background Registry

• Within 60 days of hire, Pediatric CPR/First Aid certification is required
• Above certifications must be kept current to remain employed
• Must have an initial health examination, and a periodic re-examination (as recommended by health care provider)so as to assure that employees do not because of communicable diseases, pose a significant risk to the health or safety of others, that cannot be eliminated or reduced by reasonable accommodation.