GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To provide high-quality home-based services that lead to strong family outcomes, in compliance with all applicable standards and regulations ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS • Dedicated • Compassionate • Inclusive • Professional • Trustworthy ADDITIONAL EXPECTATIONS: PROGRAM PARTICIPATION AND TEAM MEMBER: • Arrives at work on time, punctually attends and actively participates in all required activities, meetings, and trainings. • Be a respectful, cooperative, and reliable team member and participant in program activities. • Projects a professional work image, both in dress and manner. • Be familiar with, and adhere to, position-related policies and procedures as well as the program’s overarching objectives WORKING CONDITIONS: • Work is usually performed in client homes and in an office environment. • Frequent exposure to video terminal and keyboarding. • Daily driving in local traffic conditions. • In normal work day may bend, squat, and climb occasionally. • May lift up to a maximum of 50 lbs. • Frequent carrying of objects weighing up to 20 lbs. • Frequent walking, standing, sitting including the ability to sit on the floor during home visits to participate in parent-child activities. Education and Experience: • Bachelor’s degree in early childhood or closely related field preferred • Infant Mental Health endorsement (preferred) • A minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent, with preference for a home-based CDA® credential (or comparable credential), or equivalent coursework as part of an associate’s or bachelor’s degree • Experience in working with or providing services to children and families. • Knowledge of infant and child development. • Competency to plan and implement home-based learning experiences that ensure effective implementation of the curriculum and promote children’s progress, including children with disabilities and dual language learners. • Competency to build respectful, culturally responsive and trusting relationships with families and the ability to accept individual differences. • Experience and humility to work with culturally diverse families. • Willing to engage in building reflective capacity (e.g., capacity for introspection, communicating awareness of self in relation to others, recognizing value of supervision, etc.). Skills and Abilities: • Bilingual required • Good computer skills • Ability to use positive behavior intervention and support (PBIS) approach to directing and redirecting child behavior. • Ability to positively interact with families of various cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. • Ability to possess and maintain a valid driver’s license and insured vehicle available for use on the job. Ability to possess and maintain compliance with State of Oregon Criminal Background Registry. • Ability to possess and maintain current First Aid/CPR certification. • Ability to obtain and maintain an Oregon Food Handler’s Card
