Class Substitute

We work to help people where they are now, and help them develop a sustainable path for future well-being
with the Social Determinants of Health through a trauma informed care lens as defined by the agency. A Classroom Support Substitute provides this in collaboration with center staff to greet parents, assist the Head Start Teacher in delivering the classroom curriculum in accordance with Head Start Program Performance Standards, licensing minimum standards, and guidelines as well as agency standards. The Classroom Support Substitute is responsible for the care and supervision of children in accordance with Head Start Program Performance Standards, licensing minimum standards, and agency standards while ensuring that services provided are in alignment with the Social Determinants of Health through a trauma informed care lens as defined by the agency.

Ensures that the classroom is one in which children are aware of expectations, provided with rules and maintain consistency, build a positive relationship with the children which focuses on positive communication, appropriate physical proximity, respect and positive discipline, and guidance. He/She is responsible for following Head Start Program Performance Standards, licensing minimum standards, and guidelines as well as agency standards and protocols with a focus on safety and promoting a positive experience for the children, and is a positive role model to all children.

Maintains supervision of children and within Head Start Program Performance ratios at all times. The Classroom Support Substitute I will be required to assist in various Head Start classrooms and/or centers as assigned, and moves from classroom to classroom or center to center as needed and directed.

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Classroom instruction and supervision of children

• Other:

Works cooperatively with all staff to accomplish the mission, goals, objectives and performance measures of the program and agency

• Healthcare and Human Services Environments: Ability to explain issues and advancements in the healthcare and human services industries.
• Achievement Orientation: A concern for surpassing a standard of excellence. The standard may be one's own past performance; an objective measure; outperforming others; challenging goals, or something that has not been done previously.
• Community Orientation: Ability to align one's own and the organization's priorities and assess and address community needs in an evidence-based and holistic manner, one that addresses the social determinants of health through a trauma-informed lens.
• Professionalism and Ethics: The demonstration of ethics and sound professional practices, as well as stimulation social accountability and community stewardship. The desire to act in a way that is consistent with one's values and what one says is important.
• Interpersonal Understanding: Ability to understand other people as well as to accurately hear and understand the unspoken or partly expressed thoughts, feelings, and concerns of others. It measures increasing complexity and depth of understanding of others and includes cross-cultural sensitivity through a trauma-informed care lens.

• Community and Customer Service - Increase client access, enrollment, and satisfaction of program resources by creating wraparound services, recruitment, and surveying strategies.
• Internal Processes - Use agency and program data to track clients through different agency programs to gauge resiliency and outcomes of participating families.
• Learning and Growth - Strengthen staff and client well-being by addressing the social determinants of health:
  Economic Stability, Education, Health and Healthcare, Neighborhood supports, Social and Community Engagement.

• Responsible for working in collaboration with center staff to ensure children’s safety in accordance with Head Start Program Performance Standards, licensing minimum standards, agency policies and ensures that clients have access, as needed, to all five pillars of the social determinants of health with a trauma informed lens through Agency services and/or community partners.
• Assists centers as needed to Ensure adequate supervision of children ensuring ratios are maintained in accordance with Head Start Program Performance Standards regulations and agency standards. Ensures that accurate name to face head counts are conducted as children enter and exit classrooms, restrooms, playgrounds, and other areas of the facility and ensure all children are accounted for at all times. Ensure children are signed out by the authorized parent or adult.
• Assist teaching staff in carrying out the daily classroom schedule; and assist with the implementation of lesson plans in accordance with Head Start Program Performance Standards that reflect accommodations for differences in student learning styles.
• Assist with the planning and utilization of…