Work Hours: 40 hours per week
Benefits:
- Healthcare Benefits
- Retirement Benefits
- 29 days Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
Provides care for children and infants in a church environment; changes diapers and clothes and ensures children and infants' personal hygiene and safety; feeds and cleans children and infants; comforts and plays with children and infants; leads children's activities for youth programs, including classroom training, tutoring, playground activities, bible study, and specialized programs; prepares and serves children snacks; maintains the cleanliness of the classroom/nursery area.
Key Responsibilities:
Child Care Responsibilities (90%)
- Monitors all children and infants' behavior and activities in a constant manner ensuring their health and safety at all times.
- Provides constant care for the needs of the children in an efficient, clean, loving, safe, secure and healthy manner.
- Exhibits control of the children and, when needed, displays proper discipline techniques.
- Prepares and maintains up-to-date records and required reports (attendance, discipline reports, etc.).
- Ensures the accountability, security and safety of children participating in activities and reports all accidents to the supervisor in an accurate and timely manner.
- Administers basic first aid as necessary; reports any health issues with supervisor in accordance to policies and procedures.
- Changes children and babies' diapers and/or clothes as needed to ensure their comfort and personal hygiene.
- Ensures that proper hygiene, including hand washing, is used when diapering and assisting children in the bathroom.
- Ensures that proper hand washing hygiene is used by worker and children before and after snacks and before giving bottles to infants; prepares and serves children snacks.
- Ensures that activities are geared to each child with concerns for their special needs, talents and age.
- Builds and maintains effective and positive relationships with parents; notifies supervisors and parents of children's progress on any special or unusual incidents.
- Determines appropriate supplies and materials for recreational activities; ensures the children's safety in utilizing the same.
- Provides opportunities for physical and mental stimulation through both inside and outside learning activities.
Cleaning Responsibilities (10%)
- Ensures that the appearance, cleanliness and safe environment of the nursery/classroom/game room is maintained including disinfecting toys and equipment and putting in proper location at the end of each session.
- Ensures that all classroom equipment is in good condition and is used and maintained properly.
- Maintains the materials in an orderly fashion; maintains accountability for any supplies necessary for programs.
- Cleans the kitchen, classrooms, table, floors, etc. in accordance with established sanitary standards.
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to meet attendance requirements.
- Ability to read, write and communicate the English language effectively.
- Ability and willingness to conduct all duties in accordance with the ministry of the organization and its Christian principles; conducts all communications and job duties with the highest level of professionalism.
- Duties are usually performed by combinations of sitting, standing, and walking on a frequent change basis.
- Moderate amount of physical effort required associated with walking, standing, lifting and carrying children and heavy objects (more than 25 lbs.) frequently.
- Ability to observe children and ensure their safety.
Working Conditions:
- Work is performed in an indoor and outdoor environment where there may be physical discomforts associated with changes in weather or discomforts associated with noise, dust, dirt and the like.