Registered Early Childhood Educator

PROGRAM AREA

Community Development - Family Support

Ongoing

30-35 hours per week

Current vacancy

• Our Vision: A community without barriers to health and wellbeing.
• Our Mission:
  We work with our community to promote and sustain health and wellbeing for all.
• Our Values:
  Compassion, Social Justice, Courage, Integrity, Adaptability.

Guelph Community Health Centre prioritizes people who face barriers to health and accessing services, and people who identify as:

• Homeless or at risk of homelessness
• Living on low income
• Newcomers to Canada with language barriers
• Having moderate to severe mental health and/or addiction issues
• Having moderate to severe disabilities
• Indigenous First Nations, Inuit and Métis
• Black, mixed race and racialised populations
• Experiencing intersectional oppression
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  SLGBTQIA+
• Vulnerable children and their families experiencing conflict, isolation or attachment struggles

Early

ON Child and Family Centres provide children and parents/caregivers opportunities to participate in high quality play and inquiry-based programs, led and facilitated by Registered Early Childhood Educators. Our Early

ON Centre offers a safe and welcoming environment.

• Maintain a safe, positive enriching environment for children that reflects the pedagogy of How Does Learning Happen? Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years.
• Develop, plan, and provide appropriate information, services and programs that support families in meaningful ways.
• Respect and support the important role of parents and caring adults as the child’s first teacher and play partner.
• Welcome, support and interact with all program participants integrating bias-free strategies in recognition of the rich diversity of families.
• Communicate effectively with families of all backgrounds and abilities using inclusive language and interactions.
• Create a comfortable and welcoming atmosphere that reflects trust and understanding in relationships amongst staff and program participants.
• Apply knowledge of child development in program planning and sharing information with parents and caregivers.
• Provide quality, developmentally appropriate, play-based emergent learning opportunities that are shaped by the participating family’s knowledge, interests, and experiences.
• Organize and assess play areas, equipment and materials to create an engaging, welcoming, inclusive environment that encourages parents and caregivers to connect with each other and their children.
• Document children and family experiences to serve as a basis for meaning making, relationship building and program planning.
• Assist with program set-up, and clean-up following agency sanitary practices.
• Model positive relationships with children and adults.
• Provide a solution-focused approach when working through challenges.
• Guide children’s learning and development through positive adult-child interactions.
• Communicate with parents as needed about issues relevant to their child (e.g., child development, sleeping/eating, information about resources, etc.).
• Provide individual support to parents/caregivers in the form of referrals, linkages with other professionals, etc.
• Facilitate one-on-one consultation with families that need further support and services.
• Assist in the creation and distribution of communication materials for the programme’s as well as promoting awareness of children’s services.
• Understand community resources in order to facilitate access to services for program participants.
• Work collaboratively with community partners to provide family support services and promote community programs.
• Maintain a positive rapport with parents, co‑workers, students, volunteers, and other professionals.
• Contribute to outreach initiatives to attract new families to the Centre.
• Facilitate workshops for programme participants as required.
• Engage in reflective practice with team members.
• Attend professional learning opportunities that reflect current early learning and care research and trends.
• Participate in ongoing reflective evaluation of programme and service delivery.
• Mentor, supervise and evaluate student teachers and volunteers.
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