Position: Perinatal Educator
Corporation: Family & Children’s Center, Inc.
Status: Non-Exempt
Compensation: $35.00 hourly
Status: Part-Time, Non-Exempt
Work Hours: 15-20 hours, including evenings and occasional weekends
Immediate Supervisor: Director of Program Impact and Compliance
JOB OBJECTIVETo provide direct educational needs of expectant and new parents related to conception, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, infant feeding, and infant care.
Spanish bilingual skills highly preferred.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSDevelops, implements, revises, and maintains current curriculum for designated classes.
SKILLS, ABILITIES AND BEHAVIORS
• Pursue professional growth through workshops, classes, reading, and in-service trainings.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm, initiative, creativity, and flexibility.
• Maintain boundaries and good working relationships with all agency staff.
• Abide by strict code of confidentiality according to legal and professional standards.
• Maintain a high degree of sensitivity and responsiveness to client and staff needs.
• Carry out agency goals and policies.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Bachelor’s degree in healthcare related field.
Licenses, Certifications: International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA) or Lamaze International within one (1) year
Experience: Recent experience in teaching of adults
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work is performed in client homes and throughout the community of St Joseph County, some work is required to be completed in an office setting. Assessment of children may involve bending, kneeling, and play activities on the floor. Will need reliable transportation to provide services in the home, attend meetings at locations other than Family & Children’s Center’s corporate offices.
Corporation: Family & Children’s Center, Inc.
Status: Non-Exempt
Compensation: $35.00 hourly
Status: Part-Time, Non-Exempt
Work Hours: 15-20 hours, including evenings and occasional weekends
Immediate Supervisor: Director of Program Impact and Compliance
JOB OBJECTIVETo provide direct educational needs of expectant and new parents related to conception, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, infant feeding, and infant care.
Spanish bilingual skills highly preferred.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSDevelops, implements, revises, and maintains current curriculum for designated classes.
- Creates, maintains and updates resource list as applicable for designated classes.
- Shares information about Family & Children’s Centers’ service programs with class participants as relevant.
- Neatly stores class supplies and materials in the educator storage area. All items are clearly labeled.
- Assesses educational needs with ongoing evaluations and adjusts accordingly.
- Maintains and submits attendance documentation and class evaluation tools.
- Other duties as needed and directed by supervisor.
- Reads professional journals, attends seminars/classes/professional organization meetings to stay current and expand knowledge base.
- Marketing and outreach to referral sources and potential group participants. Actively engaging individuals and organizations that can potentially refer families, by building strong relationships, highlighting value, and encouragement to promote educational classes.
SKILLS, ABILITIES AND BEHAVIORS
- Ability to function effectively independently without supervision.
- Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrates experience with handling multiple tasks and setting priorities.
- Able to work flexible work hours.
- Applies adult and adolescent learning principles.
- Utilizes effective organizational skills.
- Demonstrates professional appearance and personal conduct for the employee's job.
- Uses effective communication skills considering body language, filters, listening, paraphrasing, and questions with customers of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
- Demonstrates experience in program management collaboration and time management.
- Demonstrates awareness of legal issues and strives to manage situations in a reduced-risk manner.
- Creates an environment that facilitates learning by providing educational materials and consistent set up per needs.
- Demonstrates knowledge of current Community Education offerings.
- Demonstrates basic knowledge of curriculum content in all related childbirth and parenting education package classes.
- Utilizes problem-solving methods and tools.
- Demonstrates self-directed learning through continuing education programs, reading, and multi-media access.
- Knows and applies principles of adult education theory to teaching.
- Maintains knowledge of basic counseling strategies.
- Demonstrates knowledge of effective use of visual aids.
- Demonstrates ability to accurately self-assess skills as an educator.
- Uses effective presentation skills both with individuals and with large groups.
- Functions independently with minimal supervision.
- Adapts readily to change.
- Utilizes problem-solving techniques to resolve complaints, concerns, or conflicts.
- Basic computer proficiency in Microsoft Office, with emphasis on Excel and database management.
- Carry out agency goals and policies
• Pursue professional growth through workshops, classes, reading, and in-service trainings.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm, initiative, creativity, and flexibility.
• Maintain boundaries and good working relationships with all agency staff.
• Abide by strict code of confidentiality according to legal and professional standards.
• Maintain a high degree of sensitivity and responsiveness to client and staff needs.
• Carry out agency goals and policies.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Bachelor’s degree in healthcare related field.
Licenses, Certifications: International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA) or Lamaze International within one (1) year
Experience: Recent experience in teaching of adults
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work is performed in client homes and throughout the community of St Joseph County, some work is required to be completed in an office setting. Assessment of children may involve bending, kneeling, and play activities on the floor. Will need reliable transportation to provide services in the home, attend meetings at locations other than Family & Children’s Center’s corporate offices.
