SACC Site Director/Instructional Assistant

Washington County School Age Child Care (SACC) Program provides a safe, educationally enriched, quality care program for children attending Washington County Schools.

Responsibilities

• Maintain children's safety
• Maintain site paperwork (time sheets, parent accounts)
• Maintain rules and regulations for child care centers in the state of Tennessee
• Provide a clean and safe environment
• Supervise and guide children through scheduled activities
• Implement state rules and regulations
• Effective and positive communication with parents and children
• Report suspected child abuse
• Prepare weekly lesson plans
• Report equipment hazards and safety concerns to the Site Director
• Must arrive on time for scheduled shifts
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Site Director
• Knowledge of proper safety drill procedures to include evacuation procedures and safe areas within facility
• Maintain the policies and procedures of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Qualifications

• Must be 21 years of age with a high school diploma or equivalent with 4 years working experience with youth or degree
• Background check (every 5 years)
• First Aid, CPR and AED training (will be provided when clear for employment)
• Physical (every 3 years)
• 18 hours of state approved professional development training each year (staff will be guided to web sites in order to achieve the required training)

Temperament

• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria
• Adaptability to dealing with students
• Capacity to make generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria

Capacity and Ability Requirements

• Intelligence: The ability to understand instructions and underlying principles. Ability to reason and make judgments.
• Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them.
• Manual Dexterity: Ability to move the hands easily and skillfully.
• Form Perception: To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures.
• Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

Work Conditions

Normal working environment.