Position Type: Early Childhood/Family School LiaisonDate Posted: 5/10/2024Location: 101-District Wide/location to be decidedDate Available: 2024-2025 school yearQualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in social services, human services or related field
- Two years experience in social services or related field
- Experience doing home visits and parenting education, case management, problem solving, crisis intervention, and team building is preferred
Fair Labor Standards Act Status: Exempt Reports To: Director of Head Start and Director of Family Services Job Goal: Using a strength-based approach that improves the quality of life of families and impacts the educational success of children, (1) assist and support families in setting and attaining goals aimed at self-sufficiency and stability, and (2) provide and connect families to comprehensive services in the school, neighborhood, and community. Performance Responsibilities:
- Act as a liaison among school district programs, community agencies, teachers, and families
- Develop referral systems and procedures among families, staff, and community agencies to facilitate the delivery of services including, but are not limited to, health, mental health, education, safety, housing, and employment
- Carry out activities designated to implement family involvement and support for educational goals
- Develop services that are inclusive of family diversity and based in a strengths-perspective model
- Assist in the coordination of school-wide goals and outcomes
- Provide advocacy for social services that are unavailable to families by acting as a catalyst to facilitate community action and by partnering with families to become advocates for their children
- Establish and maintain active preventive service relationships with families, assisting them in identifying and achieving attainable goals
- Make regular home visits to families to develop rapport, assess needs, and build on strengths
- Inform school staff of changes in family situations that might reflect on child behavior or attendance
- Maintain a record keeping system that documents service delivery completely and adequately protects confidentiality
- Prepare monthly reports for District use as necessary
- Participate in ongoing professional growth opportunities and follow ethical and legal standards and guidelines
- Submit initial physical upon hire then every two (2) years thereafter
- Submit initial tuberculin screening upon hire
- Other duties as assigned
Terms of Employment: The Family School Liaison will be employed for a period of ten (10) months. The salary and work year will be established annually by the Board of Education. Required Testing: Pre-employment medical physical exam and essential functions test (EFT) required. Work Environment/conditions: While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works indoors with minimal temperature variations and under conditions with risk of injury and/or illness. The employee may also occasionally work with cleaning chemicals. The noise level of the work environment is usually moderate, but occasionally can be loud. Generally the job requires 5 % sitting, 50% standing, and 45% walking. Physical Demands:
- The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers, and talk and hear.
- The employee is frequently required to bend at the neck.
- The employee is frequently required to climb or balance, reach, bend, crouch or crawl, squat, stoop, and kneel.
- The employee must frequently lift, carry and/or hold, push, or move up to 50 pounds.
Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated by the immediate supervisor(s), using the family Services Evaluation Report.Attachment(s):