Job Order Detail

Description

REPORTING TO:    PREVENTION MANAGER
Summary :
The Home Visitor focuses on guiding the relationships between parents and their infant/ child with child development information while incorporating the family culture, situations and values specific to each parent.Job Duties:
*Establishes a caring professional relationship and a climate of mutual trust and respect for families.
*Fosters the view and practice in parents that they are their child's first and most important teacher and reinforces this concept with practical suggestions for its continual development.
*Schedules and conducts weekly home visits with parents and children in their homes
*Plans and develops with parents an individualized program using weekly educational activity plans based on their child's assessment and incorporating identified family's strengths and needs.
*Plans, implements, and evaluates, with parents, group socialization experiences twice per month.
*Encourages and assists families in keeping an on-going file of weekly home visit plans and follow up activities.
*Assists families in the utilization of learning opportunities for their child by the development of educational activities using available household materials and activities that naturally occur in the home.
*Assists parents in strengthening the families
*Knowledge of the principles of nutrition by including a variety of nutrition activities at least once per month during the home visit.
*Coordinates with center director, home base specialist, parents, staff and community resources in the planning and implementation of all required screenings and evaluations of children including health and disabilities.
Please apply in confidence with a letter of application, resume, copies of credentials,   references, current CPIC/Vulnerable Sector Check, copy of valid driver's license to:
Attention: Erin Moss
Kinistin Saulteaux Nation
Box 2590
Tisdale, Saskatchewan SOE 1TO
Fax: (306) 873-3550
Email:emoss@kinistin.sk.ca