Early Head Start Teacher

Overview

Job Location:

Bushnell Head Start
- Bushnell, FL 33513

Position Type:
Full Time

Education Level: CDA/FCCPC

Salary Range: $18.50 - $20.75 Hourly

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, Vision & Dental Plans, 403b Retirement, 14 Company Paid Holidays, Pet Insurance, Basic $30,000 Life Insurance Policy, and Long-Term Disability (LTD). Public Service Loan Forgiveness Qualified Employer.

• 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 year-olds cries or calls of distress.
• Responds consistently to infants/toddler’s needs for food and comfort.
• Implements individualized feeding plans for infants, sits with toddlers and two-year-olds, and shares family-style meals; models manners and good nutrition.
• Tends to children's personal hygiene needs, including 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 foster curiosity, initiative, problem-solving skills, creativity, security, and belonging.
• Conducts developmental screenings and ongoing assessments of infants, toddlers, 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 necessary documentation.
• Completes menu worksheets for assigned infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds.
• Submits weekly, written developmental plans to the CDS for each child, with input from parents/caregivers.
• Maintains a safe, clean, caregiving environment; practices good personal hygiene and hand washing; ensures the wellbeing and safety of all children.
• Maintains a positive, calm attitude and a pleasant, soothing voice, modeling this attitude for parents and others in the program.
• Works cooperatively with other Infant, Toddler, and Two Year-Old teachers, supervisors, parents, and volunteers in planning and implementing activities.
• Utilizes developmentally appropriate discipline techniques and protects all children from physical punishment or verbal abuse; reports incidents immediately.
• Provides for the physical safety of each child from arrival to departure.
• Assists the family advocate in teaching developmentally appropriate practices for parents/caregivers.
• Observes children to detect signs of illness, injury, abuse, neglect, emotional disturbance, or other special needs; reports signs immediately.
• Plans activities for children with special needs with training and assistance; implements IEPs, behavior management plans, or individualized…