Day Care Attendant

Position Title:

Child Care Worker

Position Characteristics:
Non-seasonal, part-time, no benefits. Weekdays, evenings, Saturdays.

Department:
Administration

Reporting Relationships:
Position

Reports To:

Customer Service Manager. Positions Directly Supervised:
None

Position

Purpose:

Responsible for providing a clean, safe, and entertaining nursery environment. Receive infants and children in the nursery, provide basic child care, ensure safe play conditions, and follow established security procedures when children are checked out.

Nature And Scope:
This position requires a high level of patience and the ability to maintain composure when dealing with infants and small children. Knowledge of basic child care, strong public relations and communication skills, and attention to clean and sanitary conditions are vital to the successful execution of this position.

• Assume responsibility for effectively performing Child Care Worker responsibilities.
• Care for and entertain all children left in the care of the nursery.
• Enforce all rules and regulations established by the Customer Service Manager.
• Keep the nursery clean, neat, safe, and comfortable for all participants.
• Assist parents in following established security procedures for checking children in and out of the nursery.
• Supervise social activities and appropriately reinforce and discipline children as necessary.
• Assume responsibility for establishing and maintaining positive relations with parents and children.
• Listen to parents’ instructions and note feeding times, nap times, and special instructions for children.
• Inform parents of their child’s activities and behavior in a tactful way.

• Current American Red Cross Community CPR and First Aid Certification.
• Approved Criminal Background Investigation upon hire date.
• Understanding of infant and child development.
• Knowledge of basic child care and feeding.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Strong public relations and communication skills.
• Able to move and react quickly to a variety of circumstances.
• Skill in working with infants and young children.

• Stooping:
  Bending downward and forward at the waist.
• Kneeling:
  Resting on knee or knees.
• Crouching:
  Bending downward and forward at the leg and spine.
• Crawling:
  Moving on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Reaching:
  Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing:
  For extended time periods.
• Lifting:
  Occurs frequently and requires substantial use of upper body and back muscles.
• Grasping:
  Using fingers and palm on an object.
• Feeling:
  Perceiving sensual characteristics of objects including size, shape, texture, temperature, etc., through touch.
• Talking:
  Especially where one must frequently convey detailed or important instructions or ideas accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing:
  Able to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information.
• Repetitive Motions:
  Movements frequently and regularly required using the wrists, hands, fingers.
• Seeing:
  Average, ordinary, vision acuity necessary to prepare or inspect documents or products, or operate machinery.
• Physical Strength:
  Medium work, exerting up to 50 lbs. occasionally, and/or up to 20 lbs. frequently, and 10 lbs. constantly.

• Must work in very noisy environment requiring workers to shout to communicate.

• General Education-Reasoning Ability:
  Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one or two step instructions and to deal with ordinary, standardized situations.
• General Education-Mathematics Ability:
  Basic math skills are required for the position.
• General Education-Language Ability:
  Ability to recognize the meaning of 2,500 (2 and 4 syllable) words: to read (by sight or Braille) at a very slow rate; to compare similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Ability to print and communicate in simple sentences.

Cottonwood Heights Parks and Recreation Service Area is an equal opportunity employer.