Early Head Start Teacher

POSITION SUMMARY :
Responsible for day-to-day operation and management of the classroom. Responsible for guiding and directing the learning experiences for infants, toddlers and two years-old by providing a developmentally appropriate learning environment.

Schedule:
Monday - Friday 7:30am-3:30pm

Please apply online thrivefl.org

Only completed and signed applications will be considered.

Full Time Position
- Benefits Eligible:
Teacher Break Pay, Sick, PTO, Employer paid health benefits, 403B Retirement, 14 company paid holidays, Pet Insurance, Basic $30,000 Life Insurance Policy, and Long-Term Disability Insurance (LTD) and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (AD&D). Public Service Loan Forgiveness Qualified Employer.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS :

• Maintains an open, friendly, and cooperative relationship with each child and family.
• Encourages each child's family to be actively involved in the Early Head Start program.
• Promotes/supports parent-child bonding and nurturing parent-child relationships.
• Promotes/supports feelings of security and trust in infants, toddlers, and two year-olds.
• Greets infants, toddlers, and two year-olds and their parents/caregivers warmly and with enthusiasm each morning.
• Assures that: each infant, toddler, and two year-old is warmly greeted upon arrival; each infant is held; and each child is transitioned to become a part of the learning environment.
• Talks, sings, and reads to infants, toddlers, and two year-olds frequently throughout the day.
• Responds quickly, in a soothing and tender manner to infants, toddlers and two years-old cries or calls of distress.
• Responds consistently to infants/toddler’s needs for food and comfort.
• Implements individualized feeding plans for infants, sit with toddlers and two-year-olds, and shares family-style meal; models manners and good nutrition.
• Tends to children's personal hygiene needs, remaining especially attentive to but not limited to: routines such as diaper changing, cleaning, feeding, and changing soiled or wet clothes.
• Respects children’s curiosity about each other; ensures that children treat each other gently.
• Organizes each day's activities to provide children with a variety of individualized experiences and opportunities that allow them to develop curiosity, initiative, problem-solving skills, and creativity, as well as a sense of security and a feeling of belonging to the group.
• Conducts developmental screenings and ongoing assessments of infant, toddler, and two year-olds to determine motor, language, social, cognitive perceptual and emotional skills.
• Completes timely, neat, accurate documentation of screenings, assessments, individualized plans, attendance, daily health checklist, feedings, daily activity logs for parents/caregivers, home visits, inventories, and other documentation as may be deemed necessary for providing quality services.
• Completes menu worksheet for assigned infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds.
• Submits weekly, written developmental plans to the CDS for each child, according to growth and needs, with input from parents/caregivers.
• Maintains a safe, clean, care-giving environment, practices good personal hygiene and hand washing, and assures the wellbeing and safety of all of the children in that environment.
• Maintains a positive, calm attitude and a pleasant, soothing voice, and models this attitude and voice for parents and others working or volunteering in the program.
• Maintains a cooperative attitude of working together with other Infant, Toddler, and Two Year-Old teachers and supervisors, parents and volunteers in planning and implementing activities for the program/classroom.
• Utilizes developmentally appropriate discipline techniques.
• Protects all children from physical punishment or verbal abuse by anyone in any program activity, and immediately reports any such incident to the center director or person in charge.
• Provides for the physical safety of each child from arrival time until departure time.
• Assists the family advocate in teaching and modeling developmentally appropriate practices for parents/caregivers in caring for their young children.
• Observes children to detect signs of illness, injury, abuse,…