What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Teacher position at CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region?
Welcome to CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region
CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region is committed to building healthier communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen—both inside our hospitals and out in the community. With locations throughout Colorado, Utah, and Kansas, we deliver the same high standard of care to our employees as we do to our patients. Our 20 hospitals, emergency and urgent care centers, home care and hospice, Flight for Life Colorado TM , telehealth and over 240 physician practices and clinics offer endless opportunities! Here, you can grow your career and impact the people in the communities you serve.
CommonSpirit Health is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit, faith-based health systems, with a team of over 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. CommonSpirit operates more than 2,200 care sites and 140 hospitals, serving some of the most diverse communities across the nation, letting humankindness lead the way.
Overview
As a Lead Teacher, you are the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.
As a Lead Teacher you will be responsible for the supervision and management of the classroom in accordance with the mission and curriculum of Mercy Employee Child Care Center. As a Lead Teacher with us, you will use your education and experience in the field to create a classroom learning environment that is loving and developmentally appropriate and meets the physical, social, emotional and intellectual needs of each individual child.
Our center is growing, and we are looking for a Wobbler or Preschool teacher for our child care center.
Qualifications
In addition to bringing your whole self to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:
Experience or Education Requirements
Must meet one (1) of the following 8 types of experience requirements:
- Early Childhood Education
- Elementary Education
- Special Education
- Child Psychology
- Family and Child Development
- A current Colorado Level 1 credential
- Two(2) three credit college courses with one course being either Introduction to early Childhood Education (ECE 101) or guidance strategies (ECE 103)
Physical Requirements:
- Sedentary work -(prolonged periods of sitting and exert up to 10lbs force occasionally).
Your Connected Community
Mercy Hospital is an 82 bed, acute care hospital located in the scenic southwestern Colorado town of Durango. It is the only hospital in Colorado to be rated by Medicare with five stars for overall hospital quality. It is recognized for excellence in orthopedic and spine surgery and for outstanding patient experience and patient safety. Mercy has also received ten consecutive ‘A’ grades for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group. Our providers use state-of-the-art technology in an environment designed to promote wellbeing and healing of body, mind, and spirit.
Among the many specialty services available at Mercy are emergency care (Level III trauma designation), surgical care, cardiac care (including interventional), Orthopedic and Spine Centers of Excellence, a Family Birthing Center, home care, hospice care more. Durango offers an exceptional quality of life with small town charm, excellent schools, and year-round, world-class outdoor recreation opportunities including snow sports, river sports, hiking, biking, camping and more.
Our Total Reward Offerings
Be sure to consider our generous benefits as part of your overall compensation! Designed with your well-being in mind, our benefits include:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401K with generous match
- Daycare FSA that can include a company contribution
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Student Loan Forgiveness and more!
View more on our benefits HERE.
Pay Range
$18.00 - $27.77 / hour
Salary : $18 - $28
