- Screening, Observation, Assessment, and Curriculum Planning
- Traveling, scheduling, and conducting requirement home visits for families in accordance with Ohio Department of Health (ODH)and Healthy Families America (HFA) standards
- Ensure parent/guardian participation with child.
- Assist families with strengthening the parent- child relationship, with improving their skills to optimize the home environment, improving their family support system, increasing their ability to problem solve and assume the role of advocate for themselves and their family.
- Implement the Growing Great Kids Curriculum during visits.
- Offer home visits according to the family level status.
- Link assigned families with a medical home; facilitate application of community resources, client follow-up for prenatal care and immunizations, mental health and nutrition.
- Delivers evidence-based home visiting services according to ODH and HFA policies and procedures.
- Establishes individual eligibility by conducting the initial assessment tool identified by ODH and HFA.
- Initiates and maintains regular contact and support with families, primarily within the family’s home.
- Administer screening and assessments along with keeping accurate children’s records. Develop family goals; provide referrals and resources that are documented in the families’ electronic record in OCHIDS.
- Provided transportation as needed.
- Plan and implement group experiences once a month for families.
- Plan and implement field trips for the families.
- Provide an environment that is safe and healthy.
- Plan with the component Managers and Supervisor for providing all the Help Me Grow component services to the families.
- Participate in agency recruitment activities throughout the school year, i.e., open enrollment, special events in order to maintain funded enrollment of Smart Start Home Visiting Program.
- Work cooperatively with community resource agencies, connecting families as appropriate to meet their individual needs.
- Attends collaborative meetings as assigned.
- Recruit and maintain maximum waited caseload of 30 points (Level 1=2 points, Level 2= 1 point and Level 3= ½ point), which include children and prenatal women, throughout the entire year
- Other duties as assigned.
Physical Demands/Work Environment
This job operates primarily in client homes, playrooms, and outdoor environment and in an office environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak, hear, and interact with young children at their physical level. The employee is frequently required to walk quickly, climb, stoop, squat, bend, stand on a stool, sit on the floor and in, stand and walk for up to 8 hours, use hands and fingers, and reach with hands and arms. It requires the ability to lift supplies, equipment, and files, open/close storage cabinets, and may occasionally require lifting children from the floor, into/out of high chairs, cribs, changing tables. Travel and work outside of normal hours may be required for meetings, presentations, trainings and other events. Local travel is required.
About The Centers
The Centers through healing, teaching, and inspiring helps individuals and families to reach their full potential. We provide health, family, and workforce services at 11 locations throughout Greater Cleveland, creating life-changing solutions for people to lead healthier and more successful lives. We strive to be a service-oriented workplace that pioneers and co-creates solutions while fostering an inclusive community where our team members thrive.
Our Early Learning Centers and programs provides high-quality care for children during the critical first 2,000 days of life by operating seven high-quality early learning centers, serving children birth through five years old, in Cleveland and the inner-ring suburbs. Because of our high standards, all sites achieved a 5-Star rating on the Step-Up-To-Quality Rating and been recognized and selected to be part of Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) and PRE4CLE.
Wellbeing and Benefits
Providing quality benefits to our staff is important to us. Just as important is our staff’s well-being. That’s why we offer a number of choices from medical to dental to vision plans to meet the different needs of our staff.
- Choice of medical and dental plans
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Account for Health and Dependent Care
- Vision
- Support for continuing education and credential renewal
- Life Insurance
- Retirement Savings (401k) with a company contribution
- Mental Health Support
- Employee Assistance Program
- Calm Subscription
- Short and Long term Disability
This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of The Centers. Since no position description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholder’s responsibility.
The Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law
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