Preschool Assistant - Granite Connection HS

About the Role

This position is for a skilled caregiver/teacher of children ages birth-3-years-old in an early learning/daycare setting serving teen parents at Granite Connection High School. The assistant teacher helps create a safe, nurturing, and engaging environment where infants and toddlers can learn and grow. This person works alongside the Early Learning Facilitator to support daily care routines, age-appropriate learning experiences, and positive interactions that foster each child's development. The assistant teacher maintains a clean, safe classroom while following all Utah Child Care Licensing requirements and program policies.

Hours per week: 29

Preschool Assistant I is an entry-level position. Preschool Assistant II requires a Child Development Associate (CDA) credential or 48 hours of college credit.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Has basic computer skills to create newsletters, calendars, check email, complete online surveys, and trainings.
• Attends and implements all monthly required Professional Development training.
• Collaborates and shares responsibilities with all team members.
• Attends monthly team meetings.
• Utilizes district assessment procedures for students.
• Arranges for a substitute when absent and notifies team and coordinator.
• Follows district policy for attendance.
• Builds positive relationships with students, parents, and staff.
• Follows preschool professionalism policies (e.g., cell phones, dress code, tardiness, timeliness).
• Creates daily lesson plans from the GSD scope and sequence of Essential Preschool Skills (EPS).
• Provides direct instruction in small and large groups daily.
• Uses We Can! Management system to enable independence and responsibility.
• Engages children with enthusiasm, variety, and novelty across the whole day.
• Provides supervision in all activities and settings.
• Gives specific, immediate, and frequent positive reinforcement (at least 4:1).
• Assists in the personal management needs of the students as needed (e.g., feeding, dressing, toileting/diapering, grooming, lifting, positioning, etc.).

Non-Essential Functions

• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Requires a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Requires a Food Handler permit from a Utah Department of Health approved entity or willingness to obtain within 3 months of hire.
• May require a current CPR certification depending on assigned duties.
• May require a passing score on the ParaPro assessment.
• No prior experience required.

Skills

• Basic computer skills.
• Ability to collaborate and share responsibilities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Displays patience and positivity.

Working Environment

• Work setting is mainly in the classroom. The noise level is usually moderate to loud.
• May be exposed to bodily fluids.
• May be asked to work inside or outside the building to accomplish assigned tasks.
• Working conditions can be in hot and cold weather.
• May experience stress from disruptive students and/or groups of students.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to speak and/or hear.
• Frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• Occasionally required to use hands to handle or feel and must occasionally climb or balance.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Must be able to stand/sit for long periods of time.
• Spend long periods of time on the floor.
• Able to run short distances.
• Must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs.

Assigned Decision Making

• Makes decisions concerning the best way to accomplish tasks assigned by the classroom teacher and related service professionals.
• Must take directions well and be able to work within specific guidelines.
• Makes suggestions but must be willing to follow directions.
• Concerns for safety of self and others.

Interactions With Others

• Interacts positively with students, parents, staff, teachers, administration, and other district personnel.

Supervisory Responsibility

• Oversees the safety of students.