Childminding Facilitator

**Program**:Pregnancy To Parenting**Children’s Program**

**Hours of Work: Thursday mornings, Shelldale Clinic**9:30AM -11:30AM**

**Status: Ongoing, Part-time**

**Our Vision**

A community without barriers to health and wellbeing.

**Our Mission**

We reduce health inequities by providing interprofessional primary health services and community programs, focused on the populations we prioritize, in collaboration with community partners.

**Our Values**

Innovation, Accountability, Person-Centred, Health Promotion, Excellence, Sustainability, Accessibility

**Guelph Community Health Centre prioritizes people who face barriers to health and accessing services, and people who identify as**:

- Homeless or at risk of homelessness
- Living on low income
- Newcomers to Canada with language barriers
- Having moderate to severe mental health and/or addiction issues
- Having moderate to severe disabilities
- Indigenous First Nations, Inuit and Métis
- Black, mixed race and racialized populations
- Experiencing intersectional oppression
- 2SLGBTQIA+
- Vulnerable children and their families experiencing conflict, isolation or attachment struggles

**Principal Responsibilities**
- Plans, prepares and implements program activities and learning areas
- Ensures the rooms are properly set up for each session
- Ensure documentation is completed including: attendance records, encountering forms, children’s information forms, privacy forms, and incident reports
- Maintains a safe, positive, enriching environment for children through play and developmentally appropriate activities
- Communicates with parents as needed about issues relevant to their child (i.e., children’s behaviors, information about resources, referring to other services, etc.)
- Provides guidance, encouragement and support to volunteers and student placements
- Role models positive child-adult interactions during group sessions
- Ensures program space is cleaned up after each session
- Communicates with the supervisor re Program issues, families needing referrals, concerns
- Punctuality and appropriate casual attire is expected

**Knowledge, Skills & Abilities**
- Experience working with groups of children and parents
- Understand need for confidentiality in dealings with clients
- Effective communication and listening skills with both children and adults
- Highly motivated and energetic, reliable and committed

**Required Qualifications**
- RECE preferred but not required
- At least two years’ relevant experience and a working knowledge of child development and community resources for children and families
- Experience working with groups of children and parents
- Understand need for confidentiality in dealings with clients
- Effective communication and listening skills with both children and adults
- Highly motivated and energetic, reliable and committed

**We know that experience comes in many forms. If you have some of these qualities and are excited about this opportunity, then we want to hear from you**.

We thank, in advance, those who apply, but will contact only those who qualify for interviews.

If at any stage in the selection process you require accommodation, please let us know the nature of the required accommodation.

We require that all finalist applicants undergo a Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Screen through their local Police Services Branch prior to start date.