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Daycare Teacher

BJC HealthCare
Saint Louis, MO Full Time
POSTED ON 11/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/9/2027
Additional Information About the Role

Do you have a passion for helping young children learn, grow, and thrive? Join the team at St. Louis Children's Child Development Center and make a meaningful difference in the lives of children every day.

Our center provides high-quality childcare for the children of BJC HealthCare and Washington University employees, serving infants through children up to 6 years old. As a Daycare Teacher, you'll work in a supportive, child-focused environment where your creativity, compassion, and dedication are valued.

Why You'll Love Working With Us

  • Full-time position (40 hours per week)
  • Convenient Monday through Friday schedule
  • Center hours: 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • No weekends and no nights
  • Located at the Child Development Center at Taylor Ave. & S. Newstead Ave.
  • Generous paid time off
  • Tuition assistance opportunities
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits starting within 30 days of employment

If you're looking for a rewarding career where you can help shape young minds while enjoying excellent work-life balance and benefits, we'd love to hear from you!

 


Overview

St. Louis Children’s Hospital is dedicated to improving the health and lives of children. As one of the top-ranked children’s hospitals in the country, St. Louis Children’s provides care in more than 50 specialty areas through a dedicated team of physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers. Along with inpatient and outpatient medical care, the hospital offers education, wellness and injury-prevention programs to fulfill its mission to “do what’s right for kids.”

 

Providing comprehensive, high-quality care and serving as an advocate for children has been St. Louis Children’s commitment since its inception in 1879. Today, the hospital serves patients and families across a 300-mile service area, and has seen patients from all 50 states and more than 80 countries. 

 

St. Louis Children’s consistently ranks among America’s Best Children’s Hospitals by U.S.News & World Report in all surveyed categories. In 2021, St. Louis Children’s was one of eight children’s hospitals to rank in the top 25 of all 10 specialties. The hospital’s academic and physician partner, Washington University School of Medicine, is one of the top-ranked medical schools in the United States. Since 2005, St. Louis Children’s has been designated as a Magnet® hospital for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center® (ANCC).

 


Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Provides and maintains a safe and healthy environment with a developmentally appropriate curriculum designed and implemented in accordance with the center's philosophy and guidelines for high quality early childhood education.

 

Responsibilities

  • Communicates effectively by being friendly, nurturing, and building bonds with children, by providing daily written documentation and keeping children’s portfolios current to keep parents informed of their child’s progress, and by building positive relationships with families.
  • Organizes learning centers and provides activities and materials to support children’s developmental and educational needs, stimulating creativity and curiosity, and giving children a sense of security. Will also write and implement developmentally appropriate lesson plans pertinent to the goals established for the needs of individual children while always maintains a global view/supervision of children and child/staff ratio at all times.
  • Facilitates an environment of healthy social and emotional development by using positive guidance techniques and redirection, encouraging and modeling responsibility and respect, by recognizing and supporting children’s personalities, learning styles, and individual differences.
  • Builds positive working relationships with team as a model of appropriate behavior for children and obtaining clock hour training per accreditation/licensing requirements.
  • Minimum Requirements

    Education

  • Associate's Degree
  • Experience

  • 2-5 years
  • Preferred Requirements

    Licenses & Certifications

  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

  • Benefits and Legal Statement

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    At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

    • Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
    • Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
    • Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
    • 401(k) plan with BJC match
    • Tuition Assistance available on first day
    • BJC Institute for Learning and Development
    • Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
    • Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
    • Adoption assistance

    To learn more, go to our Benefits Summary.

    *Not all benefits apply to all jobs

    The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer

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