Day Care Teacher I

Transylvania County Child Development is looking for Day Care Teacher! The Day Care Teacher I performs educational work in teaching a group of pre-school children at a large day care facility and/or directing a family day care home offering childcare services for a small group of very young children. Employees are responsible for conducting an enrichment program to help children develop to their potential physically, mentally, and emotionally. Work includes participation in conferences with parents in meeting the needs of individual children.   

• Plans and carries out the daily in-door and out-door educational activities.
• Interacts and cares for children complying with all NC Child Care Requirements, including Developmental Day components, center policies, Creative Curriculum and NC Foundations requirements, and Sanitation regulations.
• Plans activities that provide for the needs of the children, including social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development.
• Setting up the physical environment to meet these needs while also being stimulating, safe, and challenging.
• Assigns and supervises the activities of the aides and volunteers.
• Maintains adequate supplies and sees that equipment is kept in good condition.
• Discusses with parents individual child's progress and plans objectives to meet their needs.
• Plans meals and supervises food preparation.
• Attends and participates in general staff meetings and staff development conferences.
• Collects data and maintains developmental binders for all assigned children.
• Educates parents on various childcare topics as they pertain to childhood development.
• Builds a rapport with the families of the children, to provide the children with a sense of security.
• Converses with parents at drop off and pick up to share pertinent information as it pertains to each individual child.
• Keeps the physical environment of the classroom clean, organized, and well maintained.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of child growth and development and planning programs to appropriately meet the physical, mental, and emotional needs of children.
• Knowledge of good health practices.
• Ability to establish rapport with children and their parents in order to obtain information concerning needs of individual children.
• Ability to prepare and maintain records and reports.
• Ability to exercise good judgement in appraising situations and making decisions.

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Graduation from a four-year college or university preferably with a degree in early childhood education, nursery education, or elementary education and 2 years of experience; or

• Graduation from high school and 4 years' experience in working with young children in a nursery school, kindergarten, elementary school, or a day care facility.

Required Licenses or Certifications:
Early Child Care credentials
Infant/Toddler certification
CPR/First Aid 
8 CEUS annually 
Early Childhood associate degree.
Driver's License valid in the state of North Carolina

Additional Requirements
Successful completion of SBI background check with required fingerprinting by Sheriff Office.
Successful completion Transylvania County standard background check
Successful completion drug screening

Physical Demands
This work requires the regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force, frequent exertion of up to 25 pounds of force and occasional exertion of up to 50 pounds of force; work regularly requires speaking or hearing and using hands to finger, handle or feel, frequently requires standing, walking, climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling and reaching with hands and arms and occasionally requires sitting, tasting or smelling and lifting; work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities.

Work Environment
Work requires primary exposure to the indoors in day care centers, which are usually designed with separate classrooms; some work may occur outdoors in cold weather; exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals and exposure to blood borne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment; work is generally in a loud noise location (e.g. grounds maintenance, heavy traffic).

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily.   Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description. 

Compensation details: 17.65-27.36 Yearly Salary

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