Daycare Staff -Children’s Enrichment Center
Full-time, Nonexempt
Reports to: Children’s Enrichment Center Director
Reporting to the Children’s Enrichment Center Director, the Daycare Staff Member is expected to provide a safe, enriching, and nurturing environment for students. This position will work with diverse age children (ranging from 8 weeks old to 10 years old).
To ensure success in the pursuit of our mission, the Daycare Staff Member should display a gentle and nurturing personality and possess high energy and the ability to handle the demands of children with different personalities and needs.
Mission: Trinity School of Midland is a college preparatory community that provides a nurturing environment to enrich the mind, strengthen the body, enliven the soul, and inspire servant leadership.
Responsibilities
- Provide consistent and nurturing care.
- Feed food/snacks as age appropriate.
- Change diapers as needed.
- Comfort children when upset or tired.
- Supervise children as they play with age-appropriate toys.
- Display a patient and calm personality coupled with a loving approach to every child.
- Contribute positively to the behavior and social interaction of the children.
- Work closely with other employees to ensure guidelines are adhered to.
- Become and remain CPR and first aid certified.
- Implement school safety and security standards for students, staff, and visitors.
Required Qualifications
- High School diploma or equivalent.
- Ability to pass background check as required by state regulations.
- A passion for working with children.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a proven ability to maintain professionalism and tact in high-stress situations.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation will be made, absent hardship.
- Standing, walking, and sitting for long periods of time. Usually needed intermittently for brief and long periods of time. Frequency may vary depending on activities and location.
- Frequent reaching and hand dexterity for handling motor skills equipment and clerical tasks (such as handwriting, handling a clipboard, index cards, or notebooks, use of the telephone, keyboard, operating office tools and machines); manipulating small and medium size objects.
- Frequent bending during several hours while working with students. Usually performed for 5 to 30 seconds at a time.
- Some squatting/kneeling may be needed for specific activities.
- Able to lift, push and pull up to 30 pounds. Frequent lifting, pushing, and pulling up to 25 pounds.
Work Environment
- May deal with stressful situations in the normal course of duties, including a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a varied and diverse array of contacts.
- The work environment is a standard office, classroom, gymnasium, and/or outdoor setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate, but occasionally high depending upon student population and activities. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions and/or outdoor weather conditions. The employee may be exposed to bloodborne pathogens and/or bodily fluids.
The information contained in this job description is not an exhaustive list of the responsibilities or duties performed by this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
Trinity School is committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation, to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, citizenship status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status in accordance with the requirements of all applicable federal, state, and local laws unless a particular status protected by federal, state, or local laws contradicts the deeply held religious convictions of the School or the Church or an employee is covered by the ministerial exemption.
Pay: From $19.02 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
