Job Summary

Coordinates the day-to-day activities of the Kids on the Block (KOB) puppet program including scheduling performances, logistics, delivering puppet show performances, administering surveys, and oversight and training of the puppeteers. As a part of the agency’s Youth Programs, this position utilizes opportunities to provide education about other agency programs and services.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serves as team leader of KOB in all aspects of maintaining, scheduling, and performing Kids on the Block educational puppet shows.
• Preserves program fidelity through precise memorization of all KOB scripts, practice lines, and manipulation of puppets as necessary to become proficient at handling puppets and performing for groups.
• Maintains direct communication with school/site “gatekeepers” for the purpose of scheduling KOB puppet performances, maintaining a network for re-occurring KOB performance opportunities, and responding to potential partnerships that may create KOB program growth.
• Markets KOB to elementary schools, community agencies, and other entities that work directly with children.
• Keeps accurate program records and shares data, information, and insights with the Community & Family Outreach Supervisor.
• Evaluates and identify program needs and recommend appropriate solutions to the Community & Family Outreach Supervisor.
• Maintains all KOB scripts, props, puppets, handouts, forms, and correspondences.
• Participates in community presentations, professional workshops, and other community events pertaining to Youth Programs as needed.
• Continues to enhance professional skills and knowledge through workshops and in-service training.
• Demonstrates the agency’s values of compassion, respect, learning, adaptability, and achievement.
• Other duties as assigned by the Community & Family Outreach Supervisor.

HealthySteps Specialist - Spanish/English Bilingual

Job Details

Job Type

Full-time

Description

The role of a HealthySteps Specialist is to assist in a pediatric or family practice clinic as part of the team where you will be involved in: team-based well-child visits; comprehensive assessment of a child (developmental, social-emotional, behavioral, mental, family protective, and risk factors, and social determinants of health), including the use of evidence-based screenings; provision of therapeutic clinical interventions to address identified needs; connecting families to community resources; providing care coordination and system navigation; providing psycho-social support to the families between well-child visits; and providing positive parenting interventions, guidance and early learning resources.
Responsibilities:

• Enroll new families into the HealthySteps program, targeting patients newborns through age 3 years.
• Enroll in Tier based services after a comprehensive assessment of child’s development, social-emotional, behavioral, and mental wellbeing at recommended intervals with evidence-based screenings.
• Meet with families at well-child visits with the physician/pediatric nurse practitioner or independently.
• Visit with the family will include individualized clinical interventions to address problems that cause mental, emotional, behavioral, social, and developmental difficulties with an emphasis on child and family strengths.
• Collaborate with health care team members to restore the patient to optimum biopsychosocial functioning through the use of therapeutic clinical skills, case management, advocacy, and information and referral.
• Identify quality resources and provide referrals and follow-up as appropriate to foster community connections, including work with other members of the ConnectFirst team. Facilitate/lead parent groups, staff resource fairs or other community events targeted at early childhood and young families as needed or as available.
• Utilize the Child Development Telephone Information Line for parenting advice and to coordinate parent communication and relationship.
• Coordinate the Reach Out and Read program (where applicable).
• Provide child behavioral and developmental information, guidance, and checkups for families, helping mothers and fathers to develop confidence in their parenting abilities.
• Create a solid relationship between the parents, medical staff, and the HealthySteps team.
• Stay current on research and topics related to the services provided for children and families of children ages 0-3 years by attending trainings as needed.

Position Expectations:

• Experience and knowledge about early child growth and development, parent-child relationships, child health, and family systems.
• Experience in assessing the growth and development of infants and children through their 3rd year of life.
• Experience working with mothers and fathers; experience facilitating parent groups preferred.
• Demonstrate ability to work on an interdisciplinary team and in a peer relationship with a medical provider.
• Enthusiasm for exploring new roles and developing an independent organizational structure.
• Capacity to be reflective about work and roles. Participate in monthly individual and group reflective consultations provided by the HealthySteps program.
• Ability to work independently.
• Experience working in a medical setting or with health professionals is preferred.
• Display a commitment to increasing competency and relevancy in early childhood development and infant mental health.

Benefits:

Why Parent Child Center of Tulsa?

• 19 days PTO; 9 paid holidays; Christmas to New year agency closed = 32 days first year
• Generous benefits package!
• Family-oriented and focused policies like paid parental leave!
• Remote work options!

Community Impact at PCCT

• https://www.parentchildcenter.org/about-us/our-stories/

Required Qualifications

• Two years of prior experience working with children in an educational setting.
• Excellent classroom management skills.
• Excellent organizational, administrative, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong oral/written communication and public relations/customer service skills.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, and the ability to safely and reliably drive to and from performances.
• Ability to lift 40 lbs.
• Ability to hold puppets at the required position for extended periods of time.
• Availability extends beyond regular business hours with some weekends and evenings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate's degree in education, social work, theater performance, or a related field.
• Experience performing with puppets.
• Experience with Trauma-Informed Care.
• Bilingual – English/Spanish