Home Visitor

At OHU, our Hope Members are the heartbeat of our organization. Together, we have built a culture of support, trust, and care.

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Home Visitor

“We are such an inclusive organization, we don’t turn anybody away. Everybody is welcome. Working here, I feel like family. I’ve never felt so appreciated working in a place before. They really take care of you here, listen to your concerns and act on them. It’s just amazing! And it’s really easy to make it amazing when the people you work with are amazing.”
Shari Conley, Joliet Early Learning Center (Joliet, IL)

Culture of Care

The ELCD program at OHU is known for its closely-knit teams who often work together for years at a time! The team members join their shared love of educating young children towards creating a warm and positive working environment. New employees who come from a corporate environment quickly fall in love with the atmosphere at an OHU child development center!

What you would be doing:

• Maintaining a caseload of 8-12 EHS home visiting families providing weekly home visiting to parents and children
• Establishing trusting, nurturing relationships with children and their families
• Working jointly with parents to develop and implement weekly home visit plans based on each child’s assessment and identified family needs
• Maintaining and preserving confidential client files
• Observing, assessing and documents each child’s health, skills, behavior, growth and development
• Providing children and parents with group socialization experiences
• Providing program parents with guidance on home safety, nutrition, effective discipline, constructive play activities, and other related topics
• Serving as an advocate for Head Start families and as a liaison between families, the program, and the larger community
• Integrating other components – i.e. health, nutrition, mental health, parent involvement and special needs – into home visit and services provided
• Assisting in identifying children with special needs and making the necessary referrals
• Encouraging participation in the Head Start Parent Committee meetings as well as parent group and socialization meetings, and other events or trainings
• Assisting families in developing a Family Partnership Agreement and creating a plan for the accomplishment of the goals
• Participating in regular reflective supervision and staff meetings as required by the program
• Maintaining and documenting all services in the family files and ensures up to date program files for each family in the caseload
• Entering participant information and other required program information into the COPA system in a timely manner
• Recruiting and enrolling eligible families in the program

What you can expect from us:

• OHU program leaders work to provide warm and supportive leadership that flexes around your life as much as possible when needed
• A flexible full-time schedule
• Staff Celebrations (including weekly lunches!)
• Ongoing professional development tailored to yours and your classroom needs
• If you desire to advance in your career over time, program leaders will work with you to do so (OHU has 5 child development centers in the Chicagoland area!)
• You will be part of a center that grows programs in keeping with the community needs
• You will also be part of a well-respected company (OHU is 125 years old!) that has a seat in community partnerships

In addition, you will receive the following benefits:

• 3 time off banks! Up to 4 weeks paid vacation days; up to 6 paid personal days and up to 5 paid sick days annually
• Tuition assistance up to $2500 per year
• Medical, dental, vision, 403b retirement, flexible spending accounts, short-term disability options
• Agency paid life up to $50K based on salary
• Voluntary Supplemental Life for Employee, Spouse and Child(ren)
• Voluntary Legal Plans
• Agency paid long term disability after 1 year of employment

What we will expect of you:

Education 

• High school diploma required
• One of the following required:
  • CDA
  • Associate's degree or equivalent coursework in Early Childhood Education

Experience

• One year experience working with children and families required