Teacher Floater HS – CCTR South Park

Description

Salary: $27.22/hour

Under general supervision of the Site Director, delivers high quality Early Childhood Development services to children enrolled in an 11-hour, full year classroom, including educational, social, physical, nutritional, and psychological development of children under their care. Communicates with parents on their child’s individual progress and maintains records of attendance and educational achievement. Plans lessons, serves meals, and ensures a healthy and safe learning environment for children.

Responsible for the care and supervision of all enrolled PACE Education center-based children, planning and implementing classroom lessons, conducting meetings and conferences with parents, coordinating activities and events for children and parents, interacting with the public and providing customer service by phone, email and in person, and preparing correspondence, reports, records, and other paperwork required by the early childhood education program.

General Floater Responsibilities

• Provide breaks and support for classroom Teaching Staff.
• Promote feelings of security and trust in infants and toddlers by conveying warmth, supportiveness, and comfort; establish strong and caring relationships with children
• Provide assistance to interested families, including completion of pre-enrollment forms, answering questions, touring the facility, etc.
• Ensure proper care, safety, and supervision of groups of children at all times while maintaining appropriate child/teacher ratios.
• Conduct safety checks and maintain a safe, clean, care-giving environment, practices good personal hygiene and handwashing, and assure the well-being and safety of all the children in the environment and sanitize all areas of the classroom, including food preparation and eating area.
• Tend to children’s personal hygiene needs, during routines such as diaper changing, cleaning, feeding, and changing soiled or wet clothes.
• Assist Teaching Staff with teacher-parent conferences and home visits, as needed.
• Ability to attend assignments away from assigned site, such as in-service trainings, home visits, parent conferences, etc.
• Prepare and serve meals and snacks; holding infants, sitting with toddlers to encourage social interaction, good nutrition, and performs housekeeping tasks (including but not limited to preparing meals, dishwashing and laundering of sheets/blankets bibs etc.).
• Supervise children during nap time.
• Work effectively with other team members.
• Organize and maintain instructional and program supplies.
• Maintain an organized and developmentally appropriate classroom.
• Accurately completes all assigned paperwork and documentation, on a timely basis, according to agency policies and procedures.
• Provide appropriate customer service to parents, children, community representatives/members, and all PACE staff daily.
• Cooperate with Site Director, Site Lead Teacher, and other Service Area Coordinators in planning, supervision, and implementation of overall program
• Provide a well-supervised and safe learning environment. This includes cleaning and sanitizing of toys, materials and equipment in the classroom, outdoor learning environments and as well as the meal prepping/dishwashing and toileting/diapering areas).
• Substitute as needed in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
• Attend all assigned meetings and trainings as required by the program.
• Support and ensure the achievement of recruitment and enrollment goals.
• Assists in accomplishing the program's non-federal share through the access of community resources (services, donations, discounts, and/or goods).
• Other duties as assigned within the scope of the position.