Center Aide

About the Role

Join our team and embrace a versatile position as a Center Aide, working under the guidance of our Education Specialist. This role offers a diversity of tasks that may involve multiple locations within our center, focusing on supporting young learners' health, safety, and school readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide classroom support.
• Ensure a safe playground environment.
• Foster the health, safety, and school readiness of young learners.
• Contribute to transportation, kitchen operations, family services, and developmental specialties.
• Adhere to all supervision, safety, and health policies and procedures.
• Actively supervise and engage with children, ensuring their safety and well-being.
• Work closely with teachers.
• Foster a supportive environment for children's development of appropriate behaviors.
• Promote children's physical, social/emotional, cognitive, and language development.
• Create a classroom environment defined by positive, warm, caring, and respectful interactions.
• Demonstrate awareness of and responsiveness to children's emotional, physical, and educational needs.
• Foster freedom of expression and autonomy for children.
• Collaborate with teachers to engage children in activities.
• Maintain a classroom that offers ongoing learning opportunities.
• Encourage practices that support dual-language learners.
• Encourage learning through interaction with nature.
• Assist in implementing learning activities for children with IFSPs and IEPs.
• Use proper grammar, maintain an appropriate voice level, and speak clearly.
• Support classroom sanitation and cleaning schedules.
• Adhere to CACFP rules.
• Ensure sanitation during mealtimes.
• Follow guidelines for family-style meal service.
• Be open to feedback and act based on recommendations from supervisors.
• Proactively seek training or assistance when required.
• Comfortably and safely assist with physical caregiving tasks, including lifting children, changing diapers, feeding infants with bottles, and sitting on the floor during activities.
• Embrace additional responsibilities that contribute to the center's objectives.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• This is an entry-level position, welcoming candidates with or without prior education or experience.
• Enthusiasm to work with children, including those with special needs and limited English proficiency.
• Extended periods of walking, standing, kneeling, and crouching.
• Ability to lift and move up to 50 pounds.
• Comfort sitting on the floor, crawling, and running.
• Experience performing tasks associated with caring for children aged 0-5.
• Proficiency in both Spanish and English is a plus.
• High school diploma or GED is highly preferred.
• CDA (Childhood Development Associate) within the first six months or an AA in Early Childhood Education or a related field is advantageous.
• Prepared to present current CPR, First Aid, and Food Handler's permits or acquire them within 30 days of hire.

Qualifications

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