Preschool Lead Teacher

Preschool Lead Teacher

The Preschool Lead Teacher is responsible for leading and facilitating classroom activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth in a classroom of young children between the ages of three and five. Duties include actively engaging with children to foster a positive learning environment, will maintain a safe, secure, and stimulating classroom while also developing supportive family relationships.

Posting Specifics Pay Rate: Based on Experience Shift Details: Monday through Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm, year round. Location: Mount St. Vincent Home in Denver, CO Additional Details: Experience as a Lead Teacher

Intermountain Health Mount Saint Vincent is one of the Rocky Mountain region's premier providers of preschool, pediatric behavioral healthcare, and foster care — all focused-on children and their families. For 141 years, our innovative programs have helped children reach their full potential within their homes, schools, and communities.

Our Early Learning Center (ELC) provides a warm, homelike environment that is rich in meaningful and unique opportunities. Staff encourages exploration, creativity, and growth in all aspects of child development. We offer small class sizes, a developmentally appropriate curriculum, nutritious food, well-equipped classrooms, and outdoor playgrounds. We are proud to share that our program has earned five out of five stars with Colorado Shines, the rating for high-quality programs and practices.

Together, we will align our mission and careers, values, and workplace.

We will laugh at each other's jokes (even the bad ones). We will say hello and high five. We will celebrate milestones. We are proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.

Minimum Qualifications

• Early Childhood Teacher Certification (Formally Group Leader Qualified) OR ability to obtain within 60 days of hire
• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated teaching ability
• Proficiency in computer applications
• Positive driving motor vehicle (DMV) record, proof of current automobile insurance coverage, and a copy of a valid driver's license
• Basic Life Support and First Aid within 60 days of employment

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in one of the following areas: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Special Education, Family and Child Development or Child Psychology OR Current Level Three Early Childhood Professional Credential OR Two (2) three credit (3) courses from a regionally accredited college or university with one (1) course being Introduction to Early Childhood Education (ECE 101).
• Bi-lingual in Spanish

Essential Functions

• Ensures classroom adheres to the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, Colorado Shines, and State Licensing requirements and guidelines.
• Skillfully incorporates principles of child development and education into age-appropriate classrooms to meet physical, cognitive, and social-emotional needs of children while regularly observing and documenting student progress.
• Well-versed in early childhood education curriculum content. Guides children in all areas of the educational program—cognitive, communication socio-emotional development, and fine and gross motor skills.
• Role-models the use of trauma-informed care to establish and maintain strong relationships with patients, effectively interpret behavior, and appropriately respond to meet the child's needs.
• Demonstrates awareness and appreciation for the cultural differences among the children, families, and caregivers and responds in a sensitive and professional manner.
• Models the facilitation of play and engagement with children and always provides appropriate supervision for children.
• Readily facilitates family engagement opportunities and provides family members with appropriate educational information, resources, and recommendations.
• Models effective interpersonal relations and communication skills with co-workers, children, and families.
• May be required to float to other classrooms (within scope and qualifications) based on business need or adjust schedules/shift based on program needs.
• Satisfies all Intermountain Health requirements and performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

• Early Childhood Education
• Educational Compliance
• Developmentally Relevant Care
• Classroom Management
• Child Development
• Behavioral Health
• Customer Service
• Interpersonal Communication
• Trauma Informed Care
• Documentation

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
• Ability to regularly lift and / or move up to 50 pounds. Employees must be physically able to use crisis prevention intervention techniques including: physical management of a child, running to prevent a runaway incident. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, run or crawl.

Location: Mount St Vincent Home

Work City: Denver

Work State: Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

$25.39 - $40.00

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.