Child Care Worker

Child Care Worker – City of Golden

The City of Golden is recruiting a Child Care Worker to care for children ages 6 months to 8 years while parents or guardians attend the Golden Community Center. The position ensures safe, fun, and learning experiences and supports the City’s mission of healthy community life.

• Lead recreational activities and maintain a clean, organized care environment.
• Record attendance, manage payment receipts, punch cards, and track program accountability.
• Enforce department policies and maintain a friendly, professional attitude.
• Report issues, concerns, or emergencies to the Recreation Manager.
• Arrange substitute coverage when unable to work.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

• Minimum age 16 years.
• 1–3 months of related experience or training with small children (day‑care, scouts, sports, babysitting).
• First Aid and CPR for infant, child, and adult (certification required within 30 days of hire).

• First Aid, CPR (infant, child, adult).

• Reading and writing simple correspondence.
• Effective communication in one‑on‑one and small group settings.
• Excellent customer service and child‑care skills.
• Basic math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division with units of money, weight, volume).
• Sound reasoning, supervision, and judgment in unstructured settings.

• Toys, crayons, pencils, paper, books.

• Stand, walk, sit, use hands for up to 50 pounds of lift.
• Reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, and hear.
• Visual: close and distance vision; focus adjustment.

Indoor setting; moderate noise level.

City of Golden is an Equal Opportunity Employer.