Lead Infant Teacher

About the role

This is a full-time, hourly position working Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. The position is located in Enterprise, FL.

Responsibilities

• Establishes a warm and friendly, yet objective relationship with the children.
• Helps children to eat, dress, and do other activities, which foster appropriate habits.
• Provides care and protection of children and meets their individual needs.
• Participates in staff meetings and helps to plan goals.
• Participates in State and CCRN required training.
• Ensures that equipment and materials are accessible and in good condition.
• Attends and participates in meetings and workshops related to group child care.
• Distributes, arranges, and maintains teaching materials and equipment.
• Reports any significant problems of progress or any unusual behavior of children to the Director.
• Keeps an incident log to observe and record significant individual and group behavior.
• Documents any incident, injury or area of concern and documents significant parent interactions.
• Records developmental milestones.
• Communicates with parents through daily progress reports, conversations, conferences, notes and PAC meetings in support of the lead teacher.
• Keeps daily attendance and meal counts.
• Documents reasons for absences.
• Performs general housekeeping duties in the center; maintaining the room in a neat, clean, aesthetically pleasing manner, conducive to constructive play appropriate for the age group served.
• Is always friendly and helpful to children, staff and parents.
• Maintains responsibility and direct supervision of all children in the group during on-duty hours.
• Aids in planning a flexible weekly program for the children on appropriate lesson plan sheets based on the curriculum outline and the developmental stages of the children.
• Changes diapers according to written procedures, cleans up messes such as vomit, diarrhea, or toilet floods as needed.
• Maintains a positive attitude and supports the efforts of the whole team.
• Decorates the room, door and bulletin boards according to daily, weekly and monthly schedule.
• Remains in the Child Care Center during assigned hours, unless specifically assigned duty elsewhere.
• Performs all other job duties and responsibilities, as assigned.

Qualifications

• A High School Diploma or higher.
• A Child Development Associate (CDA) certification, preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance plans, including health, dental, vision, life insurances, and more.
• Work life balance, including flexible scheduling, generous paid time off plans and ten paid holidays per year.
• Retailment benefits with up to a 5% contribution match.
• Educational tuition reimbursement and certification incentives.
• Incredible training opportunities.
• Discounted tuition rates to our onsite Montessori school.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. House Bill 531 (2025) Requires that we provide the following link that we screen all applicants through the Clearinghouse https://info.flclearinghouse.com.

Schedule

The position is available Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the job posting.