Cottage Parent

Overview

Cottage Parents have a wide-ranging list of job responsibilities. They act as a parent-like figure, with all of the duties and responsibilities that being a parent entails. This would include assisting in daily operational duties to maintain and care for the residence home, providing spiritual guidance, providing transportation for the children to appointments, activities, and church, supervising the completion of chores, homework or other responsibilities, meeting with classroom teachers to discuss the children under their care, and taking children on activities. *Please enquire for additional job description details.

Watch this video to get an idea of what it's like to be a cottage parent at Hope.

Requirements

Because Cottage Parents work with children, they are required to pass extensive background checks, which include a medical examination, FBI background checks, and local police background checks. Cottage Parents need to demonstrate a proven track record in working with and assisting children, particularly at-risk children. Currently, Hope Children’s Home is only seeking married individuals to fulfill the houseparent position. Both spouses will be hired to work together in a home and need to demonstrate the stability and longevity of their relationship.

Scheduling

Because Hope Children’s Home offers round-the-clock care for children, Cottage Parents may work atypical schedules. Currently, these staff work a biweekly schedule that alternates between the first week having a 6/1 schedule (6 days on, 1 day off) and the second week having a 5/2 schedule (5 days on, 2 days off). Cottage Parents are given a generous number of paid Vacation and paid Personal days off.

Staff members hired by Hope Children’s Home must be dedicated to maintaining and instilling Christian values in the children it cares for. All Hope Children’s Home employees must be born-again Christians and agree with our Mission Statement, Core Values, and Doctrinal Statements. Additionally, staff members are hired based on professional and educational credentials, demonstrated experience, and Christian testimony.

Hope Children's Home is generally exempt from the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes illegal discrimination in employment based on religion. Therefore we retain the right to give preference in hiring to persons who are Christian, and/or in good standing with this organization. Beyond this religion exception, however, it is our employment practice to tolerate no discrimination in hiring, compensating, promoting, or terminating employees because of an individual’s race, color, sex (except as pastoral staff needs require), national origin, disability, veteran status, or age. This policy is based on laws established under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other applicable local, state, and federal guidelines.