Childcare Leads and Assistants

Job Description

Job Description

About This Role

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.

• 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.
• Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
• Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
• Discipline 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.
• Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
• Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
• Help children with homework and school work.
• Provide care for children with physical, developmental, or mental health disabilities.
• Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
• Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.

18 years of age

High School diploma or equivelent

Clearance of all background checks in and out of state

Childcare expereience of 1 yr or more

CDA

• Paid time off

  Childcare benefits

Forest Hill Child Care Center exists to nurture a love of learning in children, to prepare them for a transition into school, and to build relationships with families in the community.

Our vision is to create a vibrant community where every child discovers their unique potential, every family feels supported, and a lifelong love of learning begins in a nurturing and inspiring environment.