Birth-to-Three Parent Educator/Home Visitor                             (Posted February 4, 2026)
 
The Carbondale Community High School Rebound program is accepting applications for a Parent Educator/Home Visitor for the 2024-25 school year. The rate of pays $21.00/hour @ 37.5 hours/week with reduced hours during the summer session. Please see the job description below:

Parent Educator

Description of Basic Function: Under the supervision of the Prevention Initiative Coordinator, A certified parent educator implements the Parents as Teachers model, emphasizing parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting, and family well-being in their work with families. Utilizing the PAT Foundational Curriculum in culturally sensitive ways, the parent educator partners, facilitates, and reflects with families. Parent educators will provide education, emotional support, parenting instruction, advocacy, and referral. The primary aims of the position are to support parenting families to encourage education, literacy and provide parent/child activities. 

Qualifications:  

1. BA in Early Childhood Education, Human Services, or Social Sciences preferred or related field with minimum two years' experience considered.
2. Experience as a parent educator preferred.
3. Demonstrated ability to work with adults and their young children in an educational setting, preferably in an agency or school setting or through participating in-home visits.
4. Experience performing home visits with parents and children preferred. 

Essential Functions: 

1. Flexibility with respect to time and days able to work (should be able to work some weekends and evenings when client's schedules require it). Regular hours 8:00 to 4:00
2. Use the PAT Foundational Curriculum and resources to plan and deliver home visiting services to qualifying families (including Foundational Plans, Planning Guide, and all required forms to document family information and data).
3. Maintain a caseload of 16-20 families, conducting personal visits (50-60 minutes in length) with each enrolled family on a bi-weekly basis, and complete a range of screenings for each enrolled family.
4. Serve as a go between for program participants interfacing with school, church, medical, social, and other services as indicated.
5. Adequately prepare for all personal visits, which include reading appropriate parent educator resources, printing relevant handouts, and gathering materials for parent-child activities.
6. Clearly document details of each visit, assessments, screenings, referrals to resources, etc. and enter the data system.
7. Work with PAT team to plan and provide monthly parent group connections gatherings for PAT.
8. Assist in developing and maintaining a current community resource guide that includes all necessary information to link families to identified supports and services.
9. Maintain and submit in a timely way all required child, family, and program documentation.
10. Meet with supervisor a minimum of twice monthly for reflective supervision sessions.
11. Meet with supervisor as necessary to discuss procedures, protocol, and other administrative processes to ensure quality record keeping, data entry and quality provision of services to families.
12. Participate in the PAT program's staff meetings, Rebound staff meetings and participate in continuous quality improvement (CQI).
13. Help parents and children transition to other services as needed, such as preschool or kindergarten. This includes developing transition plans.
14. Complete annual required 20 hours of competency-based professional development hours to remain certified as a Parents as Teachers parent educator.
15. Attend other training and meetings as required by Rebound.
16. Represent Carbondale Family Literacy - PAT at various community events that support families and/or young children when assigned by supervisor.
17. Support the philosophy and mission of Carbondale Family Literacy - PAT 

Additional Requirements 

1. This program will require the parent educator to attend a weeklong training that is out of town. This will include flying or driving to the training site.
2. Passion for job, upbeat, enthusiastic, team player.
3. Program requires prolonged sitting and standing, including sitting on the floor at client's homes at times.
4. Occasional stooping, bending, lifting, and reaching. Employees able to lift up to 25 pounds.
5. Employees must be able to climb stairs as part of their regular work as a home visitor.
6. Employees must have a reliable car, driver's license, and current insurance.
7. Employees must be able to work in noisy and crowded environments.
8. Employees must be comfortable visiting low-income families in their homes and must be comfortable with delivering educational services in a non-judgmental/strengths-based manner.
9. Employees must be well organized and be able to keep up with complicated timelines for screenings and reporting. 

General Responsibilities 

1. Coordinate services with other community programs
2. Make referrals for further screenings, assessments, and evaluations.
3. Participate in actively recruiting families to participate in the PAT program.
4. Parent educators are mandated reporters and therefore must abide by laws governing mandated reporters. 

Qualifications

• Good written and oral communication skills
• Concern for and sensitivity to families
• Reliable transportation and a valid driver license
• Knowledge of community agencies and early childhood education programs.
• Demonstrated ability to work with adults and their young children in an educational setting, preferably in an agency or school setting or through participating in-home visits.
• Experience performing home visits with parents and children preferred.
• Supervised experience working with young children and/or parents is also recommended.
• Ability to establish rapport with families and empower them by building on their strengths.
• Strong organizational and record keeping skills.
• Ability to work independently and be self-motivated (often in the field)
• Computer skills; including web browsing, e-mail, Internet, and word-processing.   

Benefits: 

Paid Hourly � 7.5 hours a day 37.5 a week 

Average hours per fiscal year (July 1-June 30) 1658 

Workday:  Schedule varies per caseload 

Pay Rate: 21.00 

Benefit package: 

100% single health insurance 

buy into vision and dental 

$50.00 phone bill reimbursement.  

Mileage reimbursement at Federal level.  

Paid holidays, 10 days of paid sick leave, 1 personal day 

For additional information, contact Mrs. Sandra Snowden, Rebound Program Coordinator, at 549-8232, ext. 325, or at [email protected]