Work schedule: Mon-Fri 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM.
Pay rate: $22.00 Hourly with A.A. degree, and $24.00 Hourly with B.A. degree.
Early Childhood Education (ECE) offers a sign-on incentive between $750 – $1500 based on annual pay/salary after completing 90 days of continuous and satisfactory employment.
JOB SUMMARY:
Under the direction of the Center Manager, this person will be responsible for the overall monitoring and supervision of the children in the classroom. Plans, facilitates and implements a responsive approach to curriculum activities designed to promote social, physical and intellectual growth. Assess and develops individual and group activities to stimulate learning, according to each child’s development and learning approach. Responsible for the completion of all required educational records. Ensures care and supervision of children by maintaining a safe, clean and healthy learning environment. Must assure inclusion of children with Individual Educational Plans (IEPs). Encourage parents in the educational activities of the program by developing/enhancing their role as the main influence to their child’s development. This person may also assume the duties of the Site Supervisor when the Site Supervisor is offsite.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES:
- Follow all St. Anne’s rules and regulations.
- With support/guidance from specialists, ensure consistent implementation of short term exclusion & admittance policy in case of contagious illness of a child poses significant risk to the health and safety of the child and/or anyone in contact with the child. This includes notifying the parents in writing for specific reasons for the exclusions of their child.
- Discuss health topics including nutritious foods as part of the lesson plan.
- Must be available for parents before and after class as well as during parent teacher conferences and home visits to discuss observations related to a child’s behavior and discuss strategies.
- Works with parents to create IDPs (individual development plan) for each child and develop activities that parents can participate in while at home that continue to support the child’s development.
- Responsible for following and implementing all Head Start Performance Standards.
- Participating in the planning and implementation of school readiness goals.
- Record anecdotal notes and aggregate data using Child Plus data collection system.
- Planning, and implementing the program for the class in accordance with the policies and philosophy of the child development center, Head Start and CDE with an emphasis on care and supervision.
- Responsible for Head Start CDE monthly report.
- Gearing the program to the needs of individual children with concern for their interest, handicaps, special talents and individual style and pace of learning.
- Helping children become aware of their roles as integral members of a group. Being responsible for the ordered arrangement, appearance, décor, and learning environment of the classroom.
- Conducting parent conferences and home visits on children’s adjustment and behavior.
- Ensure the smooth coordination of all classroom activities and staff and student interrelationships.
- Document assessments of children in the center. Including nutritional information in newsletter to parents.
- Attending all staff meetings and recommended training programs and being responsible for a least three in-service meeting each year.
- Attending meetings and conferences of professional organizations appropriate for childcare center educators as assigned.
- Maintain regular, consistent, and timely attendance.
- Maintain confidentiality as required by St. Anne’s, licensing, HIPAA, and other regulatory agencies.
- Mandated reporter of child abuse and neglect.
SECONDARY JOB DUTIES:
- Provide leadership and guidance for the Child Development Center in the absence of the Center Manager.
- Attend all training as required.
- Participate in the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) of the agency.
- Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must have BA in Early Childhood Education, Child Development or related field, and Child Development Teacher’s Permit or California Child Development Center Permit, 24 units ECE/CD plus 6 units Administration, 2 units adult supervision including core courses.
- Must be professionally prepared as a teacher of young children, especially in the field of early childhood education or development with a minimum two (2) years of experience working with young children in a classroom setting, or combined experience in the classroom and group settings with young children.
- Must demonstrate competencies in planning and implementing learning experience that:
- Advance the intellectual and physical development of children, including improving the readiness
- of children for school by developing their literacy, phonemic, and print awareness, understanding
- and use of language and increasingly complex and varied vocabulary, appreciation of books,
- understanding of early math and science, problem solving skills, and approaches to learning.
- Establish and maintain a healthy learning environment.
- Support the social and emotional development of children Encourage family involvement of the children in a Head Start program and support the development of relationships between children and their families.
- Able to relate well to both children and adults.
- Must have the personality and ability to provide leadership and stability for program continuity.
- Preferred experience or training in infant/toddler development, safety issues; and methods for communicating effectively with infants, toddlers, parents and other staff members.
- Bilingual English/Spanish/Tagalog/Korean preferred.
- Ability to receive and implement constructive feedback.
- Must possess and maintain a valid Class C California driver’s license, automobile liability insurance, and driving record acceptable to agency’s insurance carrier St. Anne’s values the dignity and worth of every person we serve. Employees are expected to support children’s emotional and social development by encouraging understanding of others and promoting positive self-concepts. All employees must have the ability to treat those served by our agency in a caring and respectful manner, mindful of individual differences and cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity.
- As providers of social services, St. Anne’s employees work with clients dealing with complex emotional and mental health issues, many of whom are facing significant personal crises on a daily basis. Employees must remain aware of any personal emotions, transference, and/or countertransference that may hinder the ability to remain professional. As such, employees are expected to maintain composure during all interactions and crisis situations, implement a self care plan, and utilize crisis communication to deescalate client crisis and prevent any serious bodily injury or harm.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and talk or hear. The employee is often required to stand and sit; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Employee may occasionally be required to drive a motor vehicle.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
HOW TO APPLY
Internal Candidates (who have been in their current position for at least six months) may submit a Transfer Request Form to Human Resources.
Standard Mail
St. Anne’s Family Services – Human Resources
155 N. Occidental Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Fax: (213) 385-1533
Via email: resume@stannes.org
You may send your resume as a part of the body of your e-mail or attach it as a Microsoft Word document or PDF file.
Once a resume or application is submitted to St. Anne’s it is screened and processed. PLEASE DO NOT CALL to inquire about the status of your resume. If you are deemed a good fit for any of our current openings, we will contact you for an interview.
Please note, St. Anne’s conducts a physical, including tuberculosis and drug screen; fingerprinting and background check which includes Child Abuse Index, FBI and Department of Justice, as well as reference checks.
Thank you for your interest in St. Anne’s!