Position: Early Childhood Specialist (Interventionist)
Schedule: Monday through Friday; 36 hours a week
Reports to: Program Manager
Base Wage: $20.25 (bilingual differential and wage differential for level of education and experience)
About the Job:
MountainStar Family Relief Nursery is recruiting a Bilingual Early Childcare Specialist to join their team in Bend, Oregon. This is your chance to be a part of something bigger and help shape the future of this vibrant community.
Why you want to join us:
You believe that every child deserves the best start possible. You believe that parenting is hard even in the best circumstances. You care about children who have experienced trauma and want to work to support vulnerable families to succeed. You enjoy working with children in a trauma informed workplace and a therapeutic classroom environment. You are motivated to engage with families and offer resources so that families are supported in nurturing their child's emotional, physical, and intellectual development.
About MountainStar Family Relief Nursery:
MountainStar Family Relief Nursery is a local non-profit that has been in Central Oregon for 20 plus years. We are a strength-based child abuse and neglect prevention program to support families with children ages 6 weeks through 5 years. We provide high quality trauma informed care and services for children and families experiencing high stress. Services include a therapeutic classroom emphasizing social-emotional development, home visits, parenting classes and other full wrap around services.
Our values are:
_1. _ - welcoming, trauma informed, non-judgmental, family-focused, compassionate, honest, and fun.
_2. _ -engaged with clients, supporters, program partners, and communities.
_3. _ - committed to quality programs, current research, continuous learning, and robust evaluation.
_4. _ - seek out and value diverse perspectives, understand and address systemic barriers equitably.
What's in it for you:
MountainStar offers a comprehensive compensation and benefit package including medical, dental, Simple IRA Retirement Plan, vacation, sick pay, 11 paid holidays, Oregon Paid Leave, and a Short-Term Disability Plan. You will be working 36 hours per week with the anticipated starting base of $20.25 per hour with the opportunity to increase your starting wage based on your education, experience and if you are bilingual in English/Spanish.
MountainStar offers a professional, agile workplace with its primary goal being a workplace of choice. MountainStar offers excellent leadership that works hard to align strategies with the company's mission statement, core values, empower employee's autonomy, provide trauma informed workplaces, a culture of transparency, wellness days, learning and development opportunities. MountainStar was ranked the 100 best nonprofits to work for in 2022 and 2023, based on the survey responses of MountainStar's employees and their work experience.
About the environment:
Wellness days and Team Appreciation days
Growth opportunities
Culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion
Engaging work with purpose
About the Role:
The Infant/Toddler Interventionist " Early Childcare Specialist" at MountainStar will work with children ages 6 weeks-3 years old and their families to provide a safe, therapeutic classroom, respite space and engage with parents to improve the child-parent relationship.
Plan, organize, and facilitate an NAEYC accredited therapeutic classroom for up to 8 young children as part of a teaching team.
Case Management of 8-12 families including home visits and phone contact
Regular, strength-based home visits with Spanish and English-speaking families
Referral assistance and crises intervention
Parent coaching, goal setting and facilitating positive parent-child interaction.
Culturally competent relationship/rapport building with parents.
Maintain records including daily observations, home visit records, family, and child assessments.
Serve USDA meals following guidelines and record keeping.
Scheduled bus riding and driving (no CDL required) in various weather conditions.
Support other nursery activities - at times outside of regular hours.
Other duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience and knowledge in working with Latino and immigrant communities.
Bilingual preferred/not required
BA/BS in Early Childhood Education or a related field with infant/toddler or preschool teaching experience. Bachelors in progress, AA/AS or comparable Oregon Registry level considered.
What You're Skilled At:
Experience in social service setting, knowledge of community resources.
Reading, writing and communication
Basic knowledge of child abuse and neglect.
Ability to recognize and record significant individual and group behaviors.
Excellent computer skills including email, Excel, Word, and web-based databases.
Effective communication skills including rapport building, report writing, conflict de-escalation and resolution.
Ability to establish and maintain personal /programmatic boundaries and confidentiality while providing supportive services.
Good judgment and maturity to function in crises.
Cultural competence.
Ability to relate sensitively and non-judgmentally with at-risk children and families.
Work independently and as a team member.
Ability to multitask and prioritize.
Ability to be flexible and take on multiple responsibilities.
Physical Demands, Background, Driving and Training Requirements:
Ability to lift and carry children up to 40 lbs.
Ability to pass a background check.
Valid driver's license and reliable personal transportation
Clean driving record to drive company vehicles.
Within 60 days of employment must be Pediatric CPR and First aid Certified, have a current food handlers' card, and show proof of completing "Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect," "Childcare Health & Safety," "Safe Sleep," and "Prevention is Better than Treatment" courses as required by Oregon Office of Childcare.
To Be Considered for this position:
Please apply via Indeed with your current resume and cover letter.
Please tell us about how your skills, experience, training, and attitude will support your success in working across these many areas of our organization.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
MountainStar is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $20.25 per hour
Expected hours: 36 per week
Benefits:
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible schedule
Health insurance
Life insurance
Paid time off
Parental leave
Professional development assistance
Retirement plan
Vision insurance
Schedule:
10 hour shift
4 hour shift
8 hour shift
Day shift
Monday to Friday
No nights
No weekends
Education:
High school or equivalent (Required)
License/Certification:
Driver's License (Required)
Child Development Associate Certification (Preferred)
Ability to Relocate:
Bend, OR 97701: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
