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**Job Summary**

To provide quality care of children ranging from six weeks old up to age 12 with developmentally appropriate lesson plans.Monument Health offers competitive wages and benefits on qualifying positions. Some of those benefits can include:

*Supportive work culture

*Medical, Vision and Dental Coverage

*Retirement Plans, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Account

*Paid Time Off Accrual Bank

*Opportunities for growth and advancement

*Tuition assistance/reimbursement

*Excellent pay differentials on qualifying positions (extra pay for working evening, nights or weekends)

*Flexible scheduling

**Job Description**

**Essential Functions:**

* Establishes a nurturing and respectful relationship with all children and provides activities that enhance each child's self-concept and socialization skills.

* Establishes a positive learning environment and provides a variety of activities that promote children's physical skills, intellectual abilities, communication skills and creative expression.

* Utilizes knowledge gained through training and takes precautionary measures in order to provide for the safety of the children, parents, and other program anticipates.

* Contributes to the overall quality early childhood programming by promoting a positive developmentally appropriate practice and ensuring an overall safe, healthy and secure environment for children, staff and visitors.

* Integrates positive guidance techniques on a regular basis, such as communicating expectations, giving children realistic choices, and redirecting inappropriate behaviors.

* All other duties as assigned.

**Additional Requirements**

**Required:**

Education - Associates in Child Studies/Education and/or obtain within 12-months of hire Certification - Child Development Associate (CDA) - Accredited University or accredited training professionals

**Preferred:**

Experience - 1 years of Early Childhood Experience

Physical Requirements:

Light work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.**Job Category**

Support Services**Job Family**

Child Care**Department**

RCH Rapid City Childrens Center**Scheduled Weekly Hours**

40**Shift**

**Employee Type**

Regular 10 Monument Health Rapid City Hospital, Inc.**Make a difference**. *Every day.*

**Monument Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.**

**COVID Vaccination Statement**

**Ensuring the safety and well-being of our patients, visitors, staff, and communities is our deepest commitment at Monument Health. As a condition of employment, Monument Health requires all new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless there is an approved exemption. New hires will be required to fully vaccinated* or have obtained an approved medical or religious exemption prior to starting employment.**

***Fully vaccinated is defined as t he completion of a primary vaccination series for COVID-19 is defined in the rule as the administration of a single-dose vaccine (such as the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 Vaccine), or the administration of all required doses of a multi-dose vaccine (such as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine (interchangeable with the licensed Comirnaty Vaccine) or the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine).**