Child Care Worker

Skills & Knowledge:

 Have or willing to attain:

• CDA - Child Development Associate
• First Aid and CPR Infant/ Child certified
• Food Service

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Supervision and Working with Others

• Nurture and care for children while parents are at work or
• Ensure that all children are signed in and that the daily attendance is
• Always supervise children and refrain from being distracted by cell phones or other electronics. Constantly strive to keep the children
• Supervise and interact with children when they are playing in the classroom or outside.
• Cooperatively work with other teachers in your classroom and share ideas of how to improve the care and function of your
• Make sure your classroom is always within the correct teacher/child ratio.
• Do not leave the classroom for extended periods of time unless it is during nap
• Be actively involved in the affairs of your classroom and be willing to do more than your fair share of work.

Eating Routines

• Fill out meal roll call sheets during meals and
• Ensure a positive and sanitary eating experience for meals and snacks as you serve the meals provided by the cook.
• Be aware of children's allergies and have them posted for substitute or new
• Model good eating habits and serve meals family style as much as possible allowing the children to pour their own milk and serve their own food when age appropriate.
• Perform good handwashing techniques before and after meals/snacks.

Curriculum and Routines

• Organize activities and implement curricula that stimulate children's physical, emotional, intellectual, and social
• Plan and display a predictable, yet flexible daily routine that allows the children to have enough playtime, physical activity, rest, and intellectual
• Read to the children
• Use nap time to plan and prepare daily and long-term units and
• Get down on the floor and play with, sing with, and interact with the
• Keep classroom tables and floors clean and sanitary thus helping minimize
• Keep your classroom bathroom lean and pleasant
• Sanitize toys weekly using kitchen sanitizer and Clorox water to wipe down large
• Send the children's naptime blankets weekly for

Social and Emotional

• Ensure children have adequate supplies from home such as diapers, sunscreen, etc.
• Provide for children's basic needs.
• Comfort children when they are crying.
• Provide a calm and pleasant naptime for those children who nap with quiet music, white noise, patting or rubbing backs, rocking, etc.
• Plan and supervise quiet activities for children who do not nap. It is ok to have short quiet time for non-napping children, but it is not appropriate to require them to stay on their cots awake for an extended
• Bath children if needed due to illness, accident, or lack of home care.
• Be aware of emotional or developmental red flags to a child's normal development and discuss with parent and director.

Parents and Caregivers

• • Must successfully complete a health screening free of any physical/mental condition that would affect ability to work with or around young children, including safeguarding those children.
  • Must submit TB (Tuberculosis) risk assessment or test results.
  • Must complete and submit fingerprint cards for national background check and pass background check and pass background check
  • Must be self-motivated and develop daily routine to complete job duties.

  MENTAL DEMANDS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS/ENVIROMENTAL FACTORS:

  • Must be able to stand for long periods of time.
  • Maintain emotional control under stress.
  • Frequent standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, pushing, and pulling.
  • Occasional lifting to 50 pounds.
  • Must be clean and sanitary in dress and grooming.
  • Must possess a valid driver license and be insurable under company insurance

   

  Employee Benefits:

  • Health Insurance: Employee is eligible to apply within 60 days of initial hire.
  • Delta Dental and VSP Vision Insurances: Employee is eligible to apply within 60 days of initial hire.
  • Retirement plan with a 4% match, must complete 90-day probation period.
  • Vol Life Insurance, employee is eligible to apply for additional coverage 31 days of initial hire.
  • Employer Paid Basic Life Insurance
  • Employer Paid Short Term Disability
  • Employer Paid Long Term Disability