Lead Teacher

Job Description

Job Description

About This Role

Responsible for creating and maintaining a safe, nurturing, and engaging environment where children can learn, play, and grow. Duties include observing and supervising children's activities, supporting their emotional, social, and cognitive development, and fostering positive interactions and self-confidence. Maintains open communication with parents and guardians regarding children's daily activities, progress, and behaviors. Provides quality care and guidance while ensuring the health, safety, and well-being of all children in the program. This position will start off as support staff to train and make sure you are a good fit for the position then would become the Lead Teacher of 2-3 year olds.

What You'll Do

• Maintain a safe play environment.
• Observe and monitor children's play activities.
• Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
• Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
• Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for people with disabilities.
• Sanitize toys and play equipment.
• Dress children and change diapers.
• Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
• Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
• Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
• Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
• Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
• Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
• Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
• Redirect children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
• Regulate children's rest periods.
• Help children with homework and school work.
• Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.

Requirements

• High school diploma
• CDA or be willing to obtain within the first 6 months of hire or hold an Associates degree in ECE
• pass a drug screen
• background check and fingerprinting
• physical

Nice To Haves

• CPR/First Aid
• experience in ECE

Benefits

• Aflac-vision, dental, cancer, and accident
• paid vacation time after a year of employment

About Us

HUMmingbird Daycare Ministry has been proudly serving families since 1986, providing quality care and education for children from infancy through school age. As a Level 3 Paths to QUALITY™ facility, we are committed to high standards in early childhood development. Our mission is to make a meaningful difference in every child’s life by offering a safe, nurturing, and enriching environment where they can grow, learn, and thrive.