Flexible Teaching Assistant

Flexible Teaching Assistant – Early Childhood Education

Schedule: Flexible / As‑Needed Across Multiple Sites / Monday - Friday

Location: Multiple CoStars Early Education Centers About the Role

We are seeking a caring, flexible, and energetic Flexible Teaching Assistant to support early childhood classrooms across several of our CoStars Early Education programs. This position functions as a substitute and requires the ability to travel between sites as needed.

In this role, you will engage young children in daily learning experiences, support their developmental needs, and partner with families and teaching teams to ensure high‑quality early education.

Job Responsibilities

• Substitute in Early Education and School‑Age Programs across multiple locations
• Supervise and actively engage children from infancy to preschool age
• Assist with implementing developmentally appropriate lesson plans
• Support children’s intellectual, motor, social, and emotional development
• Maintain classroom safety, supervision, and licensing standards
• Administer developmental assessments as needed (DECA, Ages & Stages, etc.)
• Communicate daily with families and collaborate with teaching teams
• Maintain accurate documentation, attendance, and required paperwork
• Support a clean, organized, and welcoming classroom environment
• Participate in required training and professional development
  
  

Job Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• CDA or Associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education preferred
• Experience working with children (infancy to preschool) preferred
• Ability to travel between sites as needed
• Comfort with frequently changing assignments and environments
• Strong communication, teamwork, and organizational skills
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and participate in physical tasks
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office
  
  

Work Environment: Exposed to a combination of office, school and mental health treatment environments. Exposed to children with behavior problems. May be exposed to shouting and clients who may be verbally and physically aggressive. May be exposed to blood or vomit and bodily fluids.

Physical Demands: The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend and lift up to 50 pounds. Must be capable of sustained exertion and be able to participate in the physical restraint techniques and exercises required to ensure safety of clients at all times.

Our Culture: Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is Greater Cincinnati’s most prolific non-profit specializing in education, behavioral and therapeutic health services and autism services for vulnerable, at-risk youth, their families, and caregivers. Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is proud to embrace our ideals of an equal opportunity workplace by actions as well as our words. We lead our community with respect and tolerance, internally and externally, and we expect our employees to embrace this ideal and express it in their day-to-day interactions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against, based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.