Role OverviewThe Home Educator provides comprehensive family support services to families enrolled in the Early Head Start and Head Start Home-Based programs. This position focuses on strengthening parent–child relationships, supporting family goals, and promoting child development and school readiness through weekly home visits using the Parents as Teachers (PAT) curriculum.
What You Will Do
The Home Educator works collaboratively with families, Early Childhood staff, and community partners to ensure high-quality service delivery while maintaining compliance with Head Start Performance Standards, agency policies, and documentation requirements.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate will have experience working with families in a home-based, early childhood, or human services setting, and be able to provide individualized case management and support families in achieving identified goals.
Requirements
- Home-Based Child Development Associate (CDA) credential or equivalent coursework toward an Associate or Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Human Services, or a related field.
- Experience working with families in a home-based, early childhood, or human services setting.
- Valid Ohio Driver’s License
- Reliable transportation and proof of insurance
- Ability to obtain and maintain Van Certification
- Ability to pass annual T-8 physical
- Parents as Teachers (PAT) Certification
- Family Development Credential (if degree is not in a related field)
- CPR, First Aid, Communicable Disease, and Child Abuse Prevention training
- Fifteen (15) hours of related training annually
- BCI/FBI background checks
- Insurable under agency policy
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