HIPPY Home Visitor/Community Outreach Caseworker

These positions will serve as a Home Visitors with the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) in the Department of Child and Family Studies, Florida Center for Inclusive Communities. These positions will go into the community and locate and recruit parents of preschool children as potential clients; deliver program services during weekly home visits; conduct assessments on children and parents; develops individualized service plans for children to help them reach developmental milestones; and serve as a HIPPY team member to assist with program development. Five of the six hires will be standard Home Visitors while one will be a "floater." Additional responsibilities for a floater are labeled as such below. 

1. Conduct weekly home visits to assigned clients to explain, instruct, demonstrate and review appropriate school readiness activities.
2. Participate in 6-8 hours of curricula instruction and staff development trainings each week. Participate in monthly family engagement meetings with clients, other program participants, and staff. Prepare and lead an interactive activity each month related to Science, Technology, Engineering Arts or Mathematics for families.
3. Develop and track individualized service plans for assigned children to help them reach developmental milestones.
4. Complete weekly reports: Individual client reports, progress reports, curriculum requests, assessment requests and maintain a sampling of clients' work in files. Complete monthly mileage reports. Administer pre and post child and parent assessments, surveys and tests for evaluation and research activities.
5. Assess and track Interactive vocabulary building an activity bi-weekly for assigned clients and disseminate developmental milestones resources to parents.
6. Floater additional responsibility: Service clients of other case workers as needed. 
7. Floater additional responsibility: Responsible for HHPIP's large curriculum process (prepare purchase needs, process weekly requests to distribute to 500 clients). 

Minimum: This position requires a high school diploma or equivalent, with three years experience in office, administrative, or customer services positions. Appropriate college coursework or vocational/technical training may substitute at an equivalent rate for the required experience.

Preferred: Has experience working in a HIPPY program, be a current/former Parent in the HIPPY Program or have regular access to a three or four-year old child to practice weekly HIPPY activities; Good oral and written communication skills and reliable transportation. Bilingual is a plus.

This position may be subject to a Level 1 or Level 2 criminal background check.

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• This position may be subject to a Level 1 or Level 2 criminal background check.
• Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws: 
• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

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