EHS Home Visitor
Erie Neighborhood House, a community-building agency empowering Chicago’s low-income and immigrant family and dedicated to promoting a just and inclusive society is seeking a Home Visitor for the Early Head Start Home Based Program.
The Home Visitor will provide appropriate educational lessons to the families and children. The program focuses on teaching parents and providing them with family activities that support them to be their child’s first teacher. The Home Visitor will meet with family/child in the commodity of the child’s home once a week for an hour and a half.
The Home Visitor will also be providing mental-health assessment as an educational assessment as part of the learning curriculum.
Position Responsibilities:
- In collaboration with the classroom team, plans, prepares, and implements developmentally and culturally appropriate lesson plans.
- Travel from the center to the family’s home daily as needed.
- Participate in recruitment events as needed.
- In collaboration with the team, Home Visitor’s plan socialization events
- Engages and interacts with all children in the classroom to facilitate social and academic learning.
- Meets with the lead teacher monthly for supervision and support
- Uses active supervision techniques to always supervise children
- Acts as an ambassador for Erie Neighborhood House Child Care
- Participate in quarterly team meetings with Supervisor
- Participates in transition meetings as needed
- Must participate in the yearly in-service for ECE-Department
- Enter documentation into Child/Plus.
- Maintains current Gateways Registry membership
- Completes two home visits per program year according to the education timeline
- Completes parent teacher conferences according to the education timeline
- Attend all staff meetings, agency meetings, and in-service meetings as required
- Maintains current Illinois Gateways Registry membership
- Maintains five hours of Gateways approved trainings per program year
- Completes 20 hours of professional development training per program year
- Responsible for the program complying with Erie, the Board of Education and all State licensing requirements and performance standards, including promoting the health and safety of all children, following sanitation procedures and universal precautions, completing a bi-annual physical exam, complying with the Confidentiality and Child Abuse and Neglect Act as a mandated reporter, as well as the American with Disabilities Act and Erie’s Inclusion Policy
- Other duties as assigned