Benefits/Perks
- Competitive Compensations
- Career Advancement Opportunities
- Great Work Environment
We are seeking an experienced and energetic Assistant Daycare Teacher to join our team. You will be responsible for encouraging children’s intellectual, psychological, and physical growth. The ideal candidate is nurturing, patient, and creative. If you have a passion for helping children learn and reach their potential, we want to hear from you. We are one of the only not for profit Day Cares within the local area. This is an opportunity to be part of a team who helps families on the East End.
Responsibilities:
- Plan learning, teaching and engaging activities that are developmentally appropriate
- Design a daily and weekly schedule
- Provide basic care and caregiving activities
- Evaluate children to ensure they are reaching developmental milestones
- Communicate with parents and update them on their children’s activities
Qualifications:
- Previous experience in childcare
- Patient, kind, nurturing and energetic
- Excellent organizational, communication, and time management skills
- First aid/CPR certified is desirable
A Brief History of the Southampton Day Care Center
Southampton resident Kathleen Davis founded the Southampton Day Care Center in 1986 under the name "Fountain of Youth". Ms. Davis saw the need for safe, nurturing, low cost day care services for pre-school children of working parents. During the next fourteen years the center moved out of her home into the basement of a local church, received tax exempt status from the Department of the Treasury, and converted an overgrown vacant lot on David White's Lane into a sound and attractive building and playground. We began operation there in January of 2001. Our license permits us to admit up to 30 children. We remain the only not-for-profit providers of these services in the local area.
Our staff consists of two certified teachers, two assistant teachers and a full time director. The Board of Directors is a diverse group of local residents all of whom are year-round residents of the area. Our clients represent a cross section of local residents. We admit children from 18 months to five years and offer an attractive pre-school setting while providing day care. Our hours of operation are from 7 am to 6 pm - five days per week and we are open all year.
This is truly a community effort. We have enjoyed the support of many volunteers from the village, the town and beyond. Village and town officials have been helpful to us at every step. Many individuals have been generous in their cash donations. Our Board of Directors has worked hard to coordinate all of this generosity and channel it into this project.