Inclusion Coach

Family Service

San Antonio, Texas
30+ days ago

Highlights

Numbers & Facts

Location	San Antonio, Texas
Industry	Nonprofit Charitable Organizations
Company Size	50 to 99 employees
Year Founded	1891
Website	https://family-service.org

Description

JOB SUMMARY:

The Inclusion Coach will provide consultation, coaching, mentoring, and technical assistance to Head Start staff to ensure the necessary modifications and accommodations for children experiencing developmental delays, disabilities, or concerns under Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). Various strategies, including side-by-side coaching, co-teaching, instructional planning, and reflective feedback, will be used with the teaching staff. The Inclusion Coach will collaborate with the Inclusion Coordinator to develop and revise policies, procedures, and service plans per agency policies, Head Start Program Performance Standards, National Association for the Education of Young Children Standards (NAEYC), and licensing Minimum Standards. Traveling between Family Service sites is a requirement for this position.

ESSENTIAL PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS:

Required Competencies/Skills:

Healthcare and Human Services Environments: Ability to explain issues and advancements in the healthcare and human services industries.
Achievement Orientation: A concern for surpassing a standard of excellence. The standard may be one's own past performance, an objective measure, outperforming others, challenging goals, or something that has not been done previously.
Community Orientation: Ability to align one's own and the organization's priorities and assess and address community needs in an evidence-based and holistic manner, one that addresses the social determinants of health through a trauma-informed lens.
Professionalism and Ethics: The demonstration of ethics and sound professional practices, as well as stimulation social accountability and community stewardship. The desire to act in a way that is consistent with one’s values and what one says is important.
Interpersonal Understanding: Ability to understand other people as well as to accurately hear and understand the unspoken or partly expressed thoughts, feelings, and concerns of others. It measures increasing complexity and depth of understanding of others and includes cross-cultural sensitivity through a trauma-informed care lens.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job, one must be able to fulfill each essential performance requirement. The requirements listed below represent the training, experience, knowledge, and skills required for this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions listed above.

Education/Training/Experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Psychology, Social Work or related field required.
2. Three years of experience teaching in an early childhood education program, and working with families preferred.

About Company

In collaboration with others, the mission of Family Service is to provide quality programs and services, which effectively assist and strengthen individuals and families in our community. Family Service provides more than 5,000,000 meals each year through a USDA food program in 85 Nebraska counties. This program feeds almost 21,000 children in more than 1,312 licensed home child-care facilities. Family Service delivers the Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program to 3,000 people in Lancaster County each month. Services include nutrition and breast feeding education as well as formula, milk and other staples. Family Service cares for more than 1,700 children who take part in our child care and early childhood programs based in 20 Lincoln Public Schools. Family Service counsels families and individuals with behavioral health sessions at 13 specific local schools. Family Service partners with a variety of federal, state, local and non-profit agencies to make available a number of other innovative programs to assist Nebraska families. Family Service Early Childhood and Youth Development programs granted over $694,000 in free and reduced rate scholarships to children during 2011-2012 school year. Visit and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FamilyServiceLincoln