Home Visitor

Join our team at Puget Sound Educational Service District as a Home Visitor, where you will play a vital role in providing quality, comprehensive, home-based child/family support services to pregnant women and infants/toddlers and their families.

The Home Visitor will be responsible for providing support, training, and case management to assist parents in meeting the needs of their infants/toddlers, while enhancing their role as the primary influence on their child's education and development.

• Recruit and enroll pregnant women, infants/toddlers, and families for comprehensive home-based child/family support services.
• Analyze child assessment data and collaborate with parents to develop individual school readiness goals in five developmental domains.
• Assess family, pregnant women, and infant/toddler needs through regular comprehensive home visits.
• Assist families in arranging for transportation to program activities.
• Collaborate with Paraeducators or childcare providers to provide guidance and support in their interactions with pregnant women, infants/toddlers, and families.
• Conduct health and developmental screenings and complete ongoing assessments in the family's home or preferred language.
• Coordinate the development and implementation of socialization groups, parent engagement, and other program activities to support individual school readiness goals, parent/child interactions, and parenting skills.
• Develop individualized plans in partnership with all enrolled families to facilitate progress toward family goals.
• Embodies the principles and practices that form our culture and commitment to becoming an Antiracist Multicultural Organization.
• Identify family strengths, health care needs, and social service needs to provide referrals and support services to infants/toddlers and their families.
• Maintain a variety of manual and electronic documents, files, and records for data collection, recordkeeping/documentation, and tracking services to pregnant women, infants/toddlers, and families.
• Participate in workshops, meetings, community events, etc., to receive and/or present information.
• Participate as a team member and/or partner in interdisciplinary planning for pregnant women, infants/toddlers, and families with community partners.
• Promote physical well-being and community connections to agency providers to support optimal growth and development.
• Provide services for pregnant women, including health/nutrition/mental health support and follow-up, perinatal education, resources, etc.
• Recruit and train parent volunteers to strengthen community engagement.
• Respond to inquiries from various sources to provide information and/or direction.
• Review and update immunization records for each infant/toddler to ensure they receive vaccinations on an age-appropriate schedule and/or compile information for the annual immunization reporting.
• Support families in accessing Early Head Start programming in their home or preferred language to ensure culturally and linguistically responsive services.

• Home Visitor Child Development Associate (CDA) credential, or Associate's Degree or higher in Early Childhood Education (ECE) or related field with coursework equivalent to the Home Visitor CDA.
• Experience working with children age birth-5 and their families.

• Experience in Head Start/Early Head Start/ECEAP or other comprehensive child development/family support program serving low-income families.
• Experience working with infants and/or toddlers.
• Experience working with pregnant and/or postpartum women.
• Experience providing home visits with pregnant women and/or families with children age birth-5.
• Experience working with refugee families, immigrant families, and/or families with limited English speaking abilities.
• Community outreach experience.
• Bilingual ability - Spanish preferred.
• Experience working with interpreters.

• Medical, dental, and vision through the Puget Sound Educational Service District.
• 24 annual leave days per year.
• 12 sick days.
• 12 paid holidays.
• Participation in Washington State Department of Retirement System.
• Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan.
• Subsidized ORCA card, free parking, and electric car charging stations (Renton office).