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Job Overview:

Maintaining a safe workplace by monitoring children for health, behavioral, emotional issues and report concerns to staff and parents. Ability to provide children with age-appropriate instruction.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the implementation of daily activities with infants in the nursery
• Conduct daily floor play with each infant.
• Take daily attendance of infants.
• Complete progress reports, nursery report cards and conduct parent/teacher conferences.
• Conduct weekly parent and child time sessions with various bonding activities between mothers and infants.
• Conduct daily feeding and diaper changing of infants during daycare hours.
• Conduct daily washing of toys and other materials in the nursery.
• Develop and maintain a constructive and ongoing rapport with children and parents.
• Create activities that are developmentally educational for the infants.
• Collaborate with other teachers to ensure that the daycare fosters an environment that is inviting and nurturing for every child.
• Deliver reports on potential concerns about children as to management as needed.
• Manage day-to-day classroom activities, including structured lessons, free play, toilet breaks, and rest time for infants.
• Valid Pennsylvania Driver’s License
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills:

• Knowledge of cultural differences among children who are served by the program.
• Ability to assist and maintain children or infants with their hygiene.
• Provide care for children or infants with feeding, changing diapers, and cleaning room and toys.
• Ability to monitor the children when playing, eating, or napping.
• Ability to monitor children or infants in order to prevent accidents or injuries.
• Strong understanding of stages of childhood development.
• Attentiveness to the needs and safety of children.

Experience:

Two years experience related to the care and development of children.

Education Requirement:

Associate’s degree from an accredited college or university in education, including 30 credit hours in early childhood education, child development, special education, or the human services field.

Salary:

• Commensurate upon education and experience
• Grade 15

Experience

• Two years experience related to the care and development of children.

Education

• Associates or better

Skills

• Verbal Communication
• Active Listening
• Critical Thinking
• Attention to Detail