Home Based Services Manager

Description

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

The Home-Based Services Manager is responsible for providing training, technical support and supervision to Home Visitors and ensuring the home-based performance standards are met in Early Head Start.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Train newly hired Home Visitors on record keeping, reporting, planning and home visit implementation.
2. Check TS GOLD periodically to ensure home visitors are completing checkpoints and documenting observations in a timely manner.
3. Periodically review child files to ensure accuracy.
4. Complete training needs assessments and HOVRS on each home visitor quarterly. Use results to provide training and support throughout the program year.
5. Work with Director of Home-Based Services to develop and implement a training plan for the home-based program.
6. Ensure that home visitors are recruiting children/families, interviewing applicants, completing applications and entering applications into ChildPlus timely and accurately.
7. Ensure all home-based children are screened according to Head Start requirements.
8. Ensure all home visits over the course of each month contain elements of all Head Start program components.
9. Ensure that two group socialization activities per month are held for each child that emphasize peer group interaction through age appropriate activities in a Head Start classroom, community facility, home, or on a field trip.
10. Lead home-based case management meetings regarding children’s health and development.
11. Ensure that all federal, state, local and accreditation standards are met. These may include those set forth by NAEYC, APPLE, ECS, DCF and Early Head Start.
12. Encourage parent involvement in all aspects of the program.
13. Communicate regularly with other support staff in order to better serve children and families, including attending staff meetings, trainings, and sharing information.
14. Collaborate with Education Managers to provide education training.
15. Collaborate with Family Services Managers to provide family engagement training.
16. Keep up to date on home-based trainings and other information available for home visitors.
17. In the event of an extended leave or vacancy of a Home Visitor, provide home visiting services to assigned.
18. Submit accurate reports each month.
19. Perform other job-related functions as required.

(These essential job functions are not to be construed as a complete statement of duties performed. Employees will be required to perform other related marginal duties as required.)

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIP:

• This position reports to the Director of Home-Based Services.

Requirements

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree with related experience including competency to plan and implement home-based learning experiences that ensure effective implementation of the home visiting curriculum and promote children’s progress across the standards described in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Ages Birth to Five, including for children with disabilities and dual language learners, as appropriate, and to build respectful, culturally responsive, and trusting relationships with families.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:

• Bi-Lingual (English/Spanish) skills highly preferred
• Knowledge of standards set forth by Head Start, DCF, NAEYC, APPLE and any other agency to which the agency commits
• Structured child-focused home visiting that promotes parents’ ability to support the child’s cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development
• Knowledge of early childhood development with respect to children from birth through age 3
• Effective strengths-based parent education, including methods to encourage parents as their child’s firth teachers
• Methods to help parents promote emergent literacy in their children
• Ability to demonstrate problem solving skills, counseling skills, and empathy toward needs of parents and strategies for helping families coping with crisis
• Knowledge of community resources and skills to link families with appropriate agencies and services
• Knowledge of applicable safety and abuse-reporting procedures
• Knowledge of the relationship of health & well-being of pregnant women and prenatal & early child development
• Ability to effectively provide information in a positive, informative and patient manner
• Ability to work independently with little direct supervision
• Ability to use the computer effectively
• Ability to maintain confidential information
• Ability to plan and organize work as well as maintain records and prepare reports

LICENSES, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATIONS:

• Valid driver’s license and proof of automobile coverage
• Satisfactory Driving Record (as outlined in Vehicle Driving Policy)
• Complete 15 hours of in-service/professional development training hours each fiscal year (July-June)

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS:

• Works in an office environment when performing administrative functions
• Local travel to multiple homes is required

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL SKILLS:

• Acceptable eyesight (with or without correction)
• Acceptable hearing (with or without correction)
• Ability to communicate both orally and in writing
• Ability to lift up to 20 lbs.

(Reasonable accommodations will be made for otherwise qualified individuals with a disability.)