JOB SUMMARY:

Creates a nurturing environment for children and provides them with encouragement and modeling evidenced-led parenting strategies to enhance their literacy, motor-skills, communication, emotional regulation and other life skills. Values all people and their diversity and demonstrates this in providing service in a timely, courteous, and friendly manner. Maintains harmonious working relationships with all personnel and displays a non-adversarial, non-confrontational and cooperative approach in completing of all tasks.

· Providing developmentally appropriate programming to meet the needs of each child in Family Education’s care.
· Maintaining a safe, healthy, and respectful environment for children and their parents.
· Preparing and actively facilitating age-appropriate crafts, activities, play centers and story times.
· Welcoming parents, offering support when appropriate/needed, and informing them about their children’s successes following group sessions.
· Creating opportunities for children to strengthen their communication, conflict resolution, emotional regulation, and/or motor skills.
· Introducing children to early literacy opportunities.
· Introducing and/or building participants’ parenting skills by being an effective role model. These parenting skills include but are not limited to, playing interactively with the children, getting down to child’s eye level, encouraging/ praising them, using positive language, and offering appropriate choices to children.
· Assisting with the transportation of families with the children’s car seats
· Developing positive rapport with parents and children. This non-judgmental rapport is to be built through a combination of empathy and active listening skills.
· Writing professional case notes following group sessions.
· Assembling food preparation, conducting clean up duties and regular sanitation of toys and equipment as well as conducting laundry duties.
· And other duties as requested
This position is a great fit for someone who enjoys working with children and their families, someone is caring, has patience, and can communicate effectively and respectfully with people from a variety of backgrounds.