EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Assistant Child Care Provider/Assistant Teacher
Village Church Child & Family Development Center

Job Summary: Assisting a lead teacher in an early childhood center with children ages 6 weeks through 3 years of age. Schedule is 35 hours a week working various shifts between 8:30 a.m. 6 p.m. We will provide on the job training, caring for young children in a licensed facility.

Responsibilities:
  • Being on time for your shift
  • Dressing appropriately. Clean clothes. Shirts, shorts and skirts that are modest length
  • Holding and walking with an infant
  • Holding a baby while feeding them a bottle in a walker or sitting on the floor
  • Preparing bottles and baby food
  • Feeding babies and toddlers at low tables and chairs
  • Serving toddlers breakfast, lunch or snack
  • Supervising the babies and children while eating
  • Picking up babies and toddlers for diaper changes
  • Assisting small children (2 1/2 through 3 years) to learn toileting skills
  • Sitting on the floor engaging children in developmental play
  • Leading children in songs and rhymes 
  • Bending to pick up a baby off the floor to move to a crib for nap.
  • Sitting on the floor or close to the floor to assist children resting on cots
  • Supervise small and large groups of children
  • Cleaning up the classroom at the end of the shift
  • Attending staff meetings, the second Tuesday night of the month 6:30-8 p.m.
 
Qualities & Skills:
  • Patience and tolerance
  • Flexibility, stamina and lots of energy to interact with children on their level
  • Act and express understanding and be able to give encouragement
  • Engaging and joining in children’s play, with a sense of fun
  • Creative and imaginative
  • Must have good verbal and written skills to communicate with teammates and parents of children.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:
  • Must be able to attend to children’s bodily care needs for infants to through 3 years of age.
  • Bodily care involves picking up and holding an infant/toddler while walking around the room. Applicant must able to lift 40 lbs. and be able to transport a child during an emergency evacuation.
  • Must be flexible to get up and down off the floor and able to sit in low chairs in the classrooms. 

Qualifications:
  • Applicants must be 18 years or older.
  • A GED or high school diploma is required.
 
Contact Peggy Tingle to apply and for more information at peggy.tingle@villagepres.org​.
CONTACT:
Jim Tilden
Senior Director of Business Operations
913-671-2365
email
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