Lourie Center - Early Head Start Program

If you are a current Adventist HealthCare employee, please click this link to apply through your Workday account. As a faith-based organization, with over a century of caring for the communities in the Maryland area, Adventist HealthCare has earned a reputation for high quality, compassionate care. Adventist HealthCare was the first and is the largest healthcare provider in Montgomery County.

Adventist HealthCare seeks to hire a Family Support Worker who will embrace our mission to extend God's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing. If you want to make a difference in someone's life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals who are doing just that, making a difference.

The Family Support Worker:
Provides support and technical assistance to EHS/HS direct service staff in the content areas of family partnerships and engagement, community resources and collaborations, support service delivery, training and mentoring, monitoring and reporting, and providing best practices in working with families in crisis/high needs. As the program expands by an additional 200 children, the FES is needed to support family engagement event planning, policy council coordination, home based socialization planning and multiple other family related services.
Assists Centers and Teachers with planning and conducting monthly parent committee meetings and functioning as a committee; Meets with Teaching Team on a weekly basis Assist the Family Engagement Specialist and Manager with annual program wide event planning and ongoing parent trainings; Coordinates and/or conducts education opportunities for parents and volunteers; and Schedules and completes home visits and visits to assigned classrooms/centers.
Assists families to identify interests, concerns, services, and strengths; Supports families to develop skills needed to achieve their goals; utilize the parenting curriculum Circle of Security and Parents as Teachers as appropriate in your work with families.; and Link families to community providers and Assists parents in arranging transportation to appointments at various social or medical agencies.
Maintain all reporting and record keeping, including a monthly report to the Family Services Manager; Monitors child attendance closely and Follows procedures to maintain full enrollment; Establish and maintain accurate health and social services records for each family and Inputs data into ChildPlus database including, but not limited to, in-kind, attendance, enrollment applications, and family information, and other as needed.
Initiates and sustains contact with service organizations; Maintains a current directory of community resources; Attends appropriate community meetings and events; and Identifies and recruits prospective families for enrollment and volunteers for Head Start.
Work Schedule:

At Adventist HealthCare our job is to care for you. We do this by offering:

• Work life balance through non rotating shifts
• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise
• Free Employee parking
• Competitive comprehensive benefit plans offered (including health, disability, PTO and 403B retirement plan with matching and 3 year vesting)
• 100% Coverage for inpatient care - at Adventist HealthCare facilities
• 100% Coverage for urgent care nationwide - after copay

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