Manager Child Health and Wellness

Job Description

Start Early is an energized, future-focused organization devoted to providing quality early learning and care across the country.

Our desire to close the opportunity gap and build more inclusive early learning experiences for our youngest learners guides everything we do. As a leader in early learning and care, we scale our deep expertise across program, policy and research through partnerships across the country.

We are recruiting individuals who want to join us in this mission and share a commitment to our core values of appreciation & respect, empowerment, diversity, excellence, learning and communication.

Become part of our rewarding, mission-driven culture! We want our employees to feel empowered, motivated, energized, and passionate about the work they do!

Reporting to the Assistant Director of Child Health and Wellness you will:

• Monitors health, dental nutrition, mental health, and environmental safety services and ensures and delivery of quality services. Assists the Health and Wellness Assistant Director in the triage high-risk medical concerns: assist staff at the Sub-Recipient, Community Partner, and Directly Operated Programs in abiding by all public health guidelines and recipient policies and procedures.
• Assists all programs with identifying resources, assisting with training needs, building organizational monitoring capacity. Assure programs by identifying medical and dental home resources, Nutritionists, and Mental Health Consultants.
• Serves as program support to two recipient programs recipient and programs by assisting in program planning, identifying resources, assessing training needs, and monitoring program progress.
• Develops improvement plans for compliance adherence for areas that are not meeting health and wellness requirements.

• Ensures the implementation of health, mental health, nutrition and environmental safety systems to ensure consistent, high quality child development and mental health services at all Head Start and Early Head Start programs in accordance with all Head Start Performance Standards.
• Collaborates with Early/Head Start Network Health and Wellness team to:
  • Monitor and improve the database system(s), including the modification of recipient policies and procedures.
  • Coordinate the provision of services for children, together with Early Child Development.
  • Ensure developmentally appropriate activities are being carried out in the Head Start/Early Head Start Programs.
  • Conduct regular scheduled site visits to monitor and inspect health and wellness checklists for all programs.
• Assures that all Head Start and Early Head Start facility outdoor learning environments are well maintained and have no safety issues.
• In collaboration with the HB Supervisor or Director, identifies Nutrition Consultant to support the program's nutrition services and coordinate the schedule of the nutrition visits ensuring at a minimum of eight to ten hours of service per year, if assigned to the directly operated home visiting site.

• Maintains a system of communication, accountability, and engage in opportunities for supporting the improvement of existing sub recipient, directly operated and Partner health and wellness systems.

• Conducts recipient training for health services staff from all program options. Deliver training on health, mental health, nutrition and environmental safety standards for healthy practices and routines, providing safe and supportive environments for the program’s children.

• In collaboration with the HB Supervisor or Director, ensures consultants (nurse, Mental Health, and dietitian) provide services to children, families, and staff as needed or requested, if assigned to the directly operated home visiting site.

• Ensures the maintenance of up-to-date medical, dental, nutrition, mental health and environmental safety tracking systems in the Child Plus database to ensure completion and timely submission of documentation to ensure children receive services in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Identifies irregularities in the data, anticipates…