Child Care Assistant INT 6854

Location: New London, CT – USCG Academy Child Development Center

Salary: $20.32/hr

Schedule: Intermittent (0-19 hours/week)

About the role

Plans and executes appropriate early childhood education experiences with a variety of material to promote the healthy emotional, social, intellectual, and physical development of each child. Works with the director and teachers in developing and implementing age-appropriate curriculum and activities.

Responsibilities

• Helps establish a program environment that promotes positive child and youth interactions with other children, youth, and adults.
• Assists in providing and leading planned activities for program participants.
• Interacts with children and youth using approved child guidance and youth development techniques.
• Interacts professionally with staff members, parents, and the command.
• Assists in maintaining program participation data and completing required daily reports.
• Helps prepare, arrange, and maintain indoor and outdoor activity areas and materials to accommodate daily schedule.
• Monitors children in the classroom, on the playground, in hallways and restrooms, during study halls, during lunch, and in bus loading areas.
• Maintains control of and accounts for whereabouts and safety of children at all times.
• Helps arrange for/serve appropriate snacks/meals where applicable.
• Performs routine care-giving tasks, helping with materials and activities, receiving children, interacting with children, and attending to the children's physical needs.
• Ensures care is provided in accordance with standards, assists in planning and conducting activities, conducts health checks, ensures the safety and well-being of children, completes reports, and interacts with parents.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED certificate.
• Must be able to read, write, and speak in English.
• One year of general experience working with children in a group program with children and/or youth.
• Possess and maintain the physical ability to lift and carry up to 45 pounds and over, sit and rise from the floor, walk, bend, stoop, and stand on a routine basis.
• Duties may involve working both indoors and outdoors.
• Ability to satisfactorily complete Tier 1 background investigation, to include state checks, upon hiring and renew every 5 years.
• Ability to satisfactorily pass the Civilian Medical Clearance Examination that is performed at pre-placement and then every two years for every childcare position type.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two years of education above the high school level, which includes twelve semester hours of college credit in early childhood/elementary/secondary/special education, child/youth development, psychology, human development, youth program administration, or related behavioral sciences.
• One year vocational certificate in childcare.

Benefits

• Paid annual and sick leave.
• Holiday pay.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible/dependent spending account.
• Pension plan.
• 401k savings plan.
• Life insurance.
• Short-term/long-term disability.
• Tuition assistance.
• Paid parental leave.