Early Childhood Educator Assistant

**Experience with Special Needs Children**:

- Children with behavioural issues
- Children with a mental health disability
- Children with allergies
- Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or attention deficit disorder (ADD)
- Children with asthma

**Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)**:

- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Member of the College of Early Childhood Educators (CECE)
- Emergency child care first aid and CPR
- Food allergy and anaphylaxis training

**Early Childhood Educator Assistant Skills**:

- Discuss progress and problems of children at staff meetings
- Bathe, diaper and feed infants and toddlers
- Support early childhood educators in carrying out programs that promote the physical, cognitive, emotional and social development of children
- Engage children in activities by telling stories, teaching songs and preparing crafts
- Prepare snacks and arrange rooms or furniture for lunch and rest periods
- Submit written observations on children to early childhood educators or supervisors

**Children's Ages**:

- 5 years
- 1 year
- 2 years
- 3 years
- 4 years

**Additional Skills**:

- Maintain daycare equipment and assist in housekeeping and cooking duties
- Assist early childhood educators or supervisors in keeping records
- Attend staff meetings to discuss progress and problems of children
- Supervise and co-ordinate activities of other early childhood educators and early childhood educator assistants
- Storytelling

**Work Setting**:

- Child care centre

**Security and Safety**:

- Child abuse registry check
- Immunization records
- Criminal record check
- Basic security clearance
- Vulnerable sector check

**Work Site Environment**:

- Outdoors
- Noisy

**Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities**:

- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling

**Ability to Supervise**:

- 1 to 2 people
- 3-4 people
- 5-10 people

**Personal Suitability**:

- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Interpersonal awareness
- Dependability
- Judgement
- Values and ethics
- Reliability
- Punctuality

**Early Childhood Educators Specific Skills**:

- Knowledge of licensing regulations
- Establish guidelines for behaviour
- Develop and implement child-care programs that support and promote the physical, cognitive, emotional and social development of children
- Lead activities by telling or reading stories, teaching songs and taking children to local points of interest
- provide opportunities to express creativity through the media of art, dramatic play, music and physical activity
- Guide and assist children in the development of proper eating, dressing and toilet habits
- Observe children for signs of potential learning or behavioural problems and prepare reports for parents, guardians or supervisor
- Plan and maintain an environment that protects the health, security and well-being of children
- Assess the abilities, interests and needs of children and discuss progress or problems with parents and other staff members
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with co-workers and community service providers working with children

**Health benefits**:

- Health care plan
- Disability benefits
- Dental plan
- Vision care benefits
- Paramedical services coverage

**Financial benefits**:

- Bonus

**Long term benefits**:

- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance

**Other benefits**:

- Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)

**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you currently a student?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?