Parenting Support Services Parent Educator - Bilingual

Bridges Healthcare, Inc. has an immediate opening for a Bilingual Parenting Support Services Parent Educator, in our Family Centered Services Division in New Haven. Only candidates who are bilingual English/Spanish will be considered. Full-time, 35 hour work week. $25.75 - $30.25 per hour, commensurate of experience. Benefits for the positions include: - Competitive pay commensurate with experience - Medical and Dental with significant employer contribution to the premiums and HSA (if chosen as your plan) - 403(b) with a generous employer contribution - Employer-Paid Life Insurance - Paid Vacation with 22 days to start, paid personal days, paid sick time, paid winter holiday break days, plus 11 paid holidays PURPOSE and POSITION OVERVIEW Position provides home-based parenting education, support, and advocacy to families seeking support in strengthening parenting skills, improving family relationships, and creating safe and nurturing home environments. Utilizing a strengths-based, family-centered approach, works collaboratively with parents and caregivers to build positive parenting skills, strengthen parent-child relationships, promote healthy child development, and create safe, stable, and nurturing home environments. Through individualized home visits, evidence-based parenting curricula, ongoing assessment, and connection to community resources, helps families identify their strengths, address challenges, and work toward meaningful goals that support family well-being. Provides culturally responsive services in both English and Spanish, builds trusting relationships with families, and collaborates with community partners to promote positive outcomes for children and families. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Plan, prepare and conduct home visitations to assigned families where children have been identified through program screening criteria as being "at risk" for abuse and/or neglect. - Maintain a flexible work schedule to meet families' needs for appointments, including evening appointments - Utilize program-approved curricula including Circle of Security and the Positive Parenting Program in home visitations to improve parenting skills and increase the understanding of child development - Provide age-appropriate home-based parenting education including information about child development, positive parenting, child safety, health, literacy and other aspects of positive parenting based on approved curricula - Assist families to identify, access and make effective use of community resources, make referrals, provide accompaniment as needed and advocate on behalf of families when indicated - Conduct ongoing assessment of family strengths, needs, and resources. - Develop strength-based family service plans to identify goals and address areas identified as strengths and challenges - Plan and conduct parent education groups - Assist in training new staff - Maintain collaborative relationship with agency's /program's partners - Immediately notifies supervisory staff of situations in which children may be at risk (i.e. abuse, neglect) and/or another sentinel event - Make case presentations and participate in case conference meetings as scheduled - Represent the agency in related neighborhood and community meetings, groups, and committees - Attend Staff Meetings and other agency and program required meetings - Prepare for, attend, and actively participate in regularly scheduled supervisory meetings with the Parenting Support Services Director - Complete and maintain all record keeping documentation as required by the agency and its funding sources - Assist in the development and presentation of child abuse prevention and family strengthening activity materials - Attend educational training as related to scope of work duties - Promote the agency's services, programs, image, and philosophy to the public - Responsible for managing own time and schedu e - Perform any other reasonably related duties assigned by the Parenting Support Services Director - Maintain timely, accurate, organized, and complete individual case files - Maintain strict confidentiality - Follow and abide by all policies and procedures as described in the Personnel Policies and Procedures Handbook QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's Degree required, with two years' experience with children and families preferred. Bilingual English/Spanish required (read/write/speak). Strong oral