Rece Home Visitor

Wee Watch is looking for an enthusiastic child care professional to join our family. This unique opportunity as a Home Visitor is an essential role in our Agency and entails a diversity of responsibilities. The Home Visitor acts as a liaison between the Provider and the Wee Watch home childcare Agency ensuring that the home of our Providers meet and exceed all Wee Watch and Ministry of Education standards for safety, nutrition and care. In addition, the Home Visitor is a support to the Provider for child care programming ideas and resources and advice on child guidance and development. This role is ideal for an RECE looking for flexible work hours.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Conduct Home Visits
- Leverage RECE expertise to ensure that all homes/Providers are in compliance with Wee Watch policies and procedures and Ministry of Education regulations
- Conduct unscheduled monthly and quarterly home visits to all Providers to assess compliance to standards and provide guidance and support on programming and child guidance techniques
- Maintain accurate records and complete visit reports, assist Providers in completing their regular communication reports for parents
- Plan and schedule your visits and follow-up visits according to case load and requirements related to number of Providers, new children, new Providers each month

2. Provider and Parent support
- Mentor and support Wee Watch childcare Providers to help them implement all requirements in their homes, including completing reports
- Assist Providers with initial home set-up, programming ideas, resources and ECE concepts and implementation
- Provide support to parents through communication, consultations and reports

3. Agency support
- Plan and deliver Professional Development workshops to Providers, including annual Rules and Regulations Meeting
- Respond to and assist with any Serious Occurrences that occur in the homes
- May be required to assist in the office with filing, Provider screenings and other office duties. Add Agency specific requirements (ie Provider screenings, Provider Orientations, etc)

Key skills/competencies:

- Strong Subject matter expertise in Early Childhood Development and Education
- Communication skills, ability to communicate professionally and confidentially
- Strong interpersonal skills/ ability to manage conflict
- Coaching/Mentoring skills
- Detail orientation and strong time management and organization ability

Qualifications:

- Must have
- Registered Early Childhood Educator (RECE), current member of College of Early Childhood Educators
- Must have
- 2 years of childcare experience
- First Aid certification and valid VSC
- Experience or knowledge of Home Child Care Licensing requirements an asset
- Ability to travel within community (car for local travel)
- Flexibility of work hours may be required
- Hours: Part time, 1-2 days/week, may increase.
- Must be available days, some evenings.
- Start Date
- April/May 2024.

**Salary**: From $23.00 per hour plus eligible grants.

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: From $23.00 per hour

Expected hours: 8 - 16 per week

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Sarnia, ON N7T 5W6: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- AEC / DEP or Skilled Trade Certificate (required)

**Experience**:

- Licensed Child Care: 2 years (required)

**Language**:

- English (required)

Willingness to travel:

- 50% (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sarnia, ON N7T 5W6

Expected start date: 2024-05-01