Headstart Childcare Float

Job Title: Headstart Childcare Float
Status: Regular Part-time 17.5 hrs/week

Schedule: Monday - Friday 10:30am - 2pm

Salary Scale: $19.967 - $23.491 /hr

Application deadline: Until filled

Who are we?

Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre is an innovative community based, multi-service center. We strive to meet the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We work in partnership with individuals, families, and communities to achieve their full potential, paying particular attention to those who are most vulnerable and at risk. PQCHC is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in its workforce. If at any stage in the selection process you require an accommodation due to a disability, Please let us know the nature of the required accommodation.

Job Summary

Assists the Early Childhood Educators (RECE) in providing a nurturing, developmentally appropriate, healthy, and safe environment to meet the needs of children in ages 18 months to 4 years in the child care setting.

Job Specific Responsibilities

Direct Client Service
- Meets children’s needs for continuance of care, routines and education in the absence of a regular caregiver;
- Supports practices and goals for children that are consistent with How Does Learning Happen - Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years document.
- Supports children, parent and caregivers with a sense of belonging, well-being, engagement and expression through daily routines
- Work with children with special needs and provide adaptations when appropriate
- Sensitive to the needs and preferences of families
- Maintain a safe, secure environment
- Implements program plans on a daily basis as established or modified; helps set up areas for planned activities
- Provides a welcoming and nurturing environment
- Promote children’s mental health by supporting them to form close and secure relationships with adults and peers and encourage them to experience, manage and express a full range of emotions
- Perform other related duties as assigned

Administration
- Performs administrative functions as required by the program
- Responsible for room clean up
- Reviewing professional journals, ECE publications, websites and books
- Participating in ECE staff professional development opportunities, reflective practice sessions and collaboration sessions within our ECE larger community
- Assists in maintaining a healthy and safe environment, documents/reports accidents and serious occurrences to supervisors, observes and reports on illness and health conditions, monitors locations for health and safety hazards, conducts site inspections

Human Resources
- Provides support and assistance to volunteers and/or placement students.
- On an annual basis review Centre’s operational guidelines, policies and procedures and other legislation required as it relates to the delivery of services and provide recommendations for the policy reviews.

Teamwork and Collaboration
- Attends and participates at team and general staff meetings as scheduled
- Follows established policies of off-site organizations where staff are co-located.
- Participating actively as a team member at staff meetings, collaborative reflection sessions, and in generating and exchanging ideas, in goal setting and in sharing the responsibility for all the children enrolled
- Assuming responsibility for a share of the team tasks (weekly sanitizing, room set up, end of day clean up)
- The ability to work collaboratively with others to co-construct understandings and teaching strategies;
- Commitment to building genuine partnerships with others that enable open and constructive conversations about curriculum;

**Qualifications**:
Education
- Early Child Education diploma or degree from a recognized college or university or other equivalent educational qualifications is preferred

Professional Experience
- Previous experience working in a childcare environment.
- Experience in program planning and delivery in accordance to How Does Learning Happen.
- Excellent knowledge of child development, emergent curriculum and Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years; How Does Learning Happen
- Experience working with people of diverse cultures and backgrounds in a community based setting
- Experience and sensitivity working with all families including those in an urban core setting, culturally diverse, 2SLGBTQ+, young parents, etc

Key Competencies
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team environment.
- Demonstrated stress resilience and mental health stamina in the delivery of client services.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills including diplomacy, confidentiality and good judgment as well as the ability to tailor your message to your audience from children through to adults.
- Ability to demonstrate strong motivation and ability to take initiative

Personal Suitability/Other Requirements
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with adults and children.
- Availability to work flexibl