Substitute Teacher Pool - Deschutes

Description

Mountain Star is actively building a pool of dedicated substitute teachers to support our classrooms across Deschutes County. We are seeking qualified individuals with open availability Monday through Thursday from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM for on-call placements at our Redmond, Bend, and La Pine locations. Substitute Teachers play a vital role in maintaining a therapeutic and supportive classroom environment while implementing child directed and developmentally appropriate activities.

You believe that every child deserves the best start possible. You believe that parenting is hard even in the best circumstances. You care about children who have experienced trauma and want to work to support vulnerable families to succeed. You enjoy working with children in a trauma informed workplace and a therapeutic classroom environment. You are motivated to engage with families and offer resources so that families are supported in nurturing their child’s emotional, physical, and intellectual development.

Mountain Star Family Relief Nursery is a local non-profit that has been in Central Oregon for 20 plus years. We are a strength-based child abuse and neglect prevention program to support families with children ages 6 weeks through 5 years. We provide high quality trauma-informed care and services for children and families experiencing high stress. Services include a therapeutic classroom emphasizing social-emotional development, home visits, parenting classes and other full wrap around services.

• Caring – welcoming, trauma-informed, non-judgmental, family-focused, compassionate, honest, and fun.
• Collaborative – engaged with clients, supporters, program partners, and communities.
• Excellence – committed to quality programs, current research, continuous learning, and robust evaluation.
• Inclusive – seek out and value diverse perspectives, understand and address systemic barriers equitably.

Mountain Star offers a professional, agile workplace with its primary goal being a workplace of choice. Mountain Star offers excellent leadership that works hard to align strategies with the company's mission statement, core values, empower employees’ autonomy, provide trauma informed workplaces, a culture of transparency, wellness days, learning and development opportunities. Mountain Star was ranked the 100 best nonprofits to work for in 2022 and 2023, based on the survey responses of Mountain Star’s employees and their work experience.

• Wellness Days & Team Appreciation Days
• Professional growth opportunities
• Continuing Education
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Engaging, purposeful, values-based work
• Meaningful connections
• Work/life balance
• Focus on well-being & health
• Positive, supportive work culture

• Maintains a safe, therapeutic, attractive, comfortable, and well-designed classroom environment.
• Implements therapeutic, child directed, healthy, and safe activities that are developmentally and age appropriate.
• Implement a (dual if possible) language classroom by supporting a language rich environment.
• Maintains record keeping as assigned.
• Contributes to team effort by communicating positively with staff, volunteers, parents, and children who participate in the program.
• Assists with custodial duties of the classroom.
• Assists with classroom and playground supervision while incorporating positive guidance techniques.
• Fosters an understanding of the Relief Nursery, its mission, goals, objectives, and program services.
• Gathering child and parent mental health and development screenings as needed.
• Serve USDA meals following family style meal service guidelines.
• Riding or driving bus/van to assist in transportation of children/families to and from program events or the therapeutic classroom.
• Performs other work related or assigned duties.

• Experience in social service setting, knowledge of community resources
• Basic knowledge of child abuse and neglect
• Ability to work with children who have diverse temperaments and needs
• Effective communication skills…