Early Head Start Home Visitor
Riverside Community Care

Job Order #: 21859809

Cambridge, MA 02142

Full Time

40 hours per week

POSTED 12/9/2024

CLOSE DATE 3/9/2025

Job Description

Exciting opportunity to join Riverside Community Care as a Home Visitor! The Early Head Start Home Visitor works one-on-one with low-income families from diverse ethnic backgrounds to provide in-home and some on-site educational services to support families with infants or toddlers, or pregnant women.


The Early Head Start Home Visitor through weekly home visits and socialization groups (?baby and me? parent group) partners with pregnant women and families with children birth to three years of age to enhance their healthy growth and development. We assist families in receiving comprehensive services in the areas of health, nutrition, early childhood and parenting education, social services, nutritional services and problem-solving support so families can meet personal goals for them and their children.


We are looking for a great candidate that has the following competencies:

Has a commitment to working with low-income and immigrant families and pregnant women
Has knowledge of community resources or how to access community and social services
Interested in establishing a caring and supportive relationship with the persons we service
Is familiar with child development and/or social services delivery systems
Can manage a caseload of 12 families, prioritize, plan work activities, set goals and objectives, and use time effectively
Has the ability to work with different computerized data systems to track all services to the families

Required Skills
Candidates will need to have access to reliable transportation and be able to pass a criminal background check
Preference given to persons who speak Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Nepali, Somali as the position demands

Required Experience
Must have a minimum of a home-based CDA credential or comparable credential, or equivalent coursework as part of an associate's or bachelor's degree; a CDA (Child Development Credential) in Home Visiting or Infants and toddlers, Associate?s degree or Bachelor?s Degree in Early Childhood Education or related Human Services field preferred.
Candidates without the required credential, but meeting experience and language preferences must enroll in the program sponsored HVCDA and obtain the credential within 120 days of employment
Experience with low income and diverse young children and their families preferred

Pay Rate:

$23.90/hourly
$24.99/hourly with Associate's Degree
$26.10/hourly with Bachelor's Degree


Schedule: Full Time Monday through Friday 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. with possibility for hybrid work

Benefits include:

Comprehensive, high-quality health, dental, and vision insurance options
Flexible Spending Accounts ? both medical and dependent care
Eleven paid holidays
Separate accruals for vacation (increases with tenure), personal, and sick time
Tax-deferred 403(b) retirement savings plan
Employee Assistance Plan / Travel Assistance Plan
Employee bonus for referrals resulting in hiring
Discounts to movie theaters, sporting, and entertainment events
Employee YMCA discount: 10% off a YMCA monthly membership and 50% off the joiner?s fee

How To Apply

Please send resume to nmendez@mhmncc.com for review before applying to website.

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Cambridge, MA 02142

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Union Position

No

Apprenticeship

No

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Benefits

  • Major Medical
  • Dental Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Vacation Leave
  • Sick Leave
  • Mileage Reimbursement
  • Education Cost Reimbursement
  • Child Care Services Reimbursement
  • Paid Holidays
  • In-house Skill Training Programs
  • Short Term Disability Leave
  • Long Term Disability Leave

Benefit Details

Hybrid

Yes

Name

Nicole Williams

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Wakefield, MA 01880

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