Early Head Start Partner Coach

SUMMARY

The Partner Coach provides individualized coaching and support to contracted Partners (Center-based and Family Childcare) in the Early Head Start Child Care Partnership (EHS CCP) option. The Partner Coach ensures Childcare Partner contractual compliance. The Partner Coach will ensure that Childcare Partners fulfill education and child development contract deliverables and provide comprehensive, high-quality education and child development services that support the school readiness and desired outcomes for the children in their care.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supports and promotes the mission of the Agency: Foothill Family empowers children and families on their journey to achieve personal success.
• Utilizes the Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS), Community Care Licensing (CCL), Childcare Partner contract, internal policies and procedures and other resources such as the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (HSELOF) to ensure that Childcare Partners are providing age-appropriate child development services, responsive and effective teacher-child interactions, and safe learning environments.
• Develops and maintains supportive relationships with assigned Childcare Partners to identify strengths and progress resulting in the development of professional growth goals for Partners.
• Serves as the liaison for Childcare Partners and supports them to navigate the EHS-CCP program, meet contractual requirements and to access all the support and resources available to them.
• Implements Foothill Family EHS ECE contract deliverables during monthly CCP visits. Conducts observations, provides coaching, offers strategies, modeling, and ongoing professional development.
• Utilizes program data to develop and implement intensive coordinated coaching strategies/plans that are unique to each Partner's needs and the needs of the children they care for.
• Reports significant and unusual incidences related to the health and safety of children that involve Childcare Partners or EHS Staff within required timelines to direct supervisor for follow-up.
• Conducts environmental scans during CCP visits to ensure compliance with group sizes, supervision of children and to identify and address immediate safety risks.
• Partners with the Environmental Health and Safety Specialist to engage Childcare Partners in the development of plans that ensure immediate correction, quality improvement and preventative maintenance resulting in health and safety practices (including nutrition) that keep children safe.
• Monitors Childcare Partners curriculum implementation to access curriculum fidelity, levels of support and feedback needed for continuous improvement.
• Supports Childcare Partners in the completion of education requirements (child screenings, assessments, home visits, parent conferences, and transitions) as needed.
• Provide feedback on ASQ Assessment follow-up action steps, lesson plans, individualization and observations collected for the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP).
• Ensures that individualization for children is data driven, developmentally appropriate, informs school readiness goals and accommodates children with suspected or identified disabilities.
• Educates, mentors and supports Childcare Partner in the implementation of school readiness goals and ensures that goals are reflective of parent input and engagement in their child's education.
• Support Childcare Partners to ensure that indoor and outdoor learning environments are safe, welcoming to diverse children and families, organized and developmentally appropriate.
• Ensures Childcare Partners promote the benefits of regular attendance and parent engagement in the EHS CCP option.
• Promotes the impact of parent engagement in early childhood development. Offers strategies to Childcare Partners to encourage parent volunteerism at the site and at home.
• Collaborates with other service areas as needed to support the role of the Childcare Partner in the successful transition of children out of EHS-CCP.
• Completes required site visit reports and monthly reports, ensures documentation in record keeping system is up to date, accurate in capturing the interactions and supports given to Partners, and reflects ongoing communication, follow-up, and collaboration with EHS CCP team members.
• Meets with other EHS CCP service area team members for effective communication, planning, coordination, collaboration, joint decision-making, team building, and quality improvement of services provided to Partners, children and families.
• Facilitates training and professional development opportunities for Childcare Partners to support the delivery of quality education and child development services.
• Attends trainings, workshops and conferences as approved by supervisor to increase knowledge and skills as needed to provide high-quality services to teaching staff and families.
• Prepares for and actively participates in weekly individual and group supervision meetings as scheduled.
• Participates in recruitment efforts to ensure a child waitlist of eligible applicants is maintained throughout the year.
• Effectively represents the Agency in interactions with partners, parents and other clientele.
• Displays sensitivity to the service population's cultural and socioeconomics characteristics.
• Performs work safely and ensures that other individuals do not put themselves or others at risk.
• Follows all policies, procedures and legal mandates including HIPAA, client confidentiality, releases of information, protected health information (PHI) and client files.
• Ensures performance and behaviors support the Agency's performance quality improvement (PQI) goals and objectives.
• Reports to work on time and maintains reliable and regular attendance.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in early childhood education (ECE) or related field required.
• Two years of experience providing child development services, adult education and coaching required.
• Must be able to work some weekends or evenings as needed
• Bilingual English/Spanish or Cantonese preferred.
• Knowledge of early childhood development for infants and toddlers.
• Sound organizational and time management skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Works well with others within a team setting.
• Effectively represents the agency in the community.
• Effectively and successfully interacts with multi-lingual individuals and families from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds with an equity lens.
• Valid CA Driver's License and maintains insurability on the Agency's auto liability policy (including a minimum of 2 years driving experience after receiving license) and maintains the California state required auto insurance liability limits.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.