ERSEA Worker

PAYROLL TITLE: ERSEA WORKER

Under the Supervision of the EHS Family Services Coordinator, the ERSEA Worker integrates parent and family engagement strategies into all systems and program services to support family well-being and promote children’s learning and development. The ERSEA Worker will carry a caseload of children and families – enrolling the children and creating family partnerships. ERSEA Worker will implement intentional strategies to recruit and enroll children, engage parents in their children’s learning and development, support parent children relationships and integrate specific strategies for father engagement and involve parents in the governance of the program.

ERSEA

The ERSEA Worker will:

• Develop and participate in a recruitment process to enroll children with the most need in the EHS program. HSPPS 1302.13.

• Develop and conduct a recruitment process, to include specific efforts to actively locate and recruit children with disabilities and other vulnerable children. HSPPS 1302.12(b).

• Develop and carry out a recruitment process, including specific efforts to actively locate and recruit Homeless and Foster children. HSPPS 1302.05(iii) (iv).

• Maintain a 20% waiting list from one school year to the next. HSPPS 1302.14(c).

• Maintain Recruitment Verifications and Binder. HSPPS 1302.12.

• Conduct interpersonal interviews (Face-to-Face) with each family to verify information and create an eligibility determination for enrolled participants HSPPS 1302.12(a).

• Collect complete and accurate eligibility information, incorporating strategies for treating families with respect. HSPPS 1302.12(b).

• Ensure all participants meet the age requirements as identified in HSPPS 1302.12(b). The verification of age must follow program policies and procedures.

• Ensure all participants meet the income requirements.

• Prepare Over-Income Packets.

• Provide Application to EHS Family Services Coordinator for review and then enter application in ChildPlus.

• Keep eligibility determination records for each participant.

• Create notes for follow-ups in ChildPlus.

• Select eligible children for services. (ChildPlus waiting list only).

• Develop a waiting list each enrollment year and maintain during the year following selection criterial.

• Ensure that enrollment has at least 10% percent of its total funded enrollment filled by children eligible for services under IDEA.

• Ascertain that families with children with disabilities referred by outside agencies complete the application process.

• Organize, secure and maintain EHS Folders.

• Upload all Eligibility documents and the application to the Child Plus System.

• Track consecutive absences for each child (Report 2330) and submit the percentage of those absences.

• Provide education on the importance of attending school.

• Implement the following procedures to ensure regular attendance.
  1. Make a monthly report of the percentage of attendance.
  2. Ensure 85% of attendance. Complete the ERSEA Attendance Report when attendance falls below 85% and develop a plan for improvement with the families.
  3. Enter Daily Attendance in ChildPlus.
  4. Conduct a home visit with families that have excessive/sporadic absences and begin the attendance action plan

• Surveys parents of the application process and environment of Le Jardin.

• Maintain funded enrollment and fill any vacancy according to the program’s policies and procedures; all programs must fill vacancies within 30 days. HSPPS 1302.15.

• Contact child’s family within 1 hour of school being in session if the child’s whereabout is unknown (enter notes in ChildPlus. If parents do not reply, reach emergency contacts and make a follow up home visit.)

• Distribute and collect all the documentation needed for returning children and update all files of returning children (create a log of all returning children for each new enrollment year).

• Provide teachers a list of all new children. (Report 2125 & 2110)

• Manage the transfer and withdrawal process of children in Child Plus using the appropriate documentation.

• Educate parents on Policy Council and other available committees and community opportunities that will promote parent leadership and advocacy, along with supporting families as they engage in volunteering.
  
  
• Research, develop, and foster community partnerships to bring resources and in-kind

• Management has the authority to assign additional duties as deemed appropriate for the benefit of the organization. HSPP 1302.91

GENERAL

• Read and adhere to all of Le Jardin’s Policies and Procedures, as well as all HSPPS (Head Start Program Performance Standards).

• Additional duties may be assigned as needed for the benefit of the agency.

Knowledge, Abilities, and Skills

• Ability to communicate in English professionally both orally in in writing.
• Ability to prepare and deliver professional presentations.
• Knowledge of the ChildPlus Information System preferred.
• Knowledge of Head Start and Early Head Start is preferred.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED, but preferably a Bachelor’s Degree in social work, human services, family services, counseling or a related field.
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office applications (Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Able to stand and sit for extended periods of time
• Able to lift 40 pounds

Salary: See the most recent salary schedule.

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt