Educator - Before & After Care West Lynn 27 HRs, Contract

**Early Childhood Educator, Full Time, 27 Hours, Before & After school (Haldimand Norfolk) Contract**
**Program Location**: West Lynn, Haldimand Norfolk

Hello, Future Educator

**_ At Today’s Family, we believe in the role, value and impact of strong people partnerships in achieving what’s best for _**_children_**_ and families. Together, we can ensure that every _**_child_**_ experiences the joy of learning through play._**

**_ It’s why we exist._**

**_ We’re seeking the very best people to help us grow, care and innovate within the very best, high-quality, and unique programs and opportunities for _**_children_**_._**

**Who Are We?**

Today’s Family is a large and growing not-for-profit, charitable organization serving over 6,000 children and families in over 86 neighbourhoods across Hamilton, Halton, Haldimand and Norfolk, and Oxford County. We’re on a mission. By working together to enrich today’s families, we want what’s best for children. It’s our vision that every child experience the joy of learning through play. We achieve this by holding our core values close to us, allowing them to guide us into the future we embrace - a future for every child. We value _Caring, Collaboration, Accountability, Innovation, and Inclusion_.

Our programs are high-quality and continuously emerging to meet and respond to the strengths and needs of our growing communities. We are a multi-site, multi-service organization, offering a wide-variety of licensed programs and services in many neighbourhoods, including:

- Early Learning and Child Care
- Licensed Home Child Care
- Before and After School Care
- Day Camps
- EarlyON Child and Family Centres
- Youth Partnership Opportunities
- Family and Community Engagement

At Today’s Family, we are investing in the growth of a feeling. The growth of the “buzz” you hear when entering into one of our program spaces or when catching us in the community. We are growing off the charts and are seeking passionate Early Childhood Educators to help us continue to grow the feeling of care across our many programs.

We know that the very best programs require the very best people - and that’s YOU

**Are you?**:

- Looking for new, innovative ways to play and share your skills and talents?
- An expert in all things early learning, early childhood development, and child care?
- Interested in sharing the story of our impact with children, families, and the community through the sharing of documentation, learning stories, and “Mission Moments”?
- Someone who values the creativity that exists within exploration of the arts, community engagement, and outdoor education?
- Seeking new opportunities and places to chart your pedagogical leadership journey?
- Eager to share your big ideas on the ways of which we can make a positive impact in the healthy development of children and families?

**If yes**, we welcome you to consider learning more about a career with Today’s Family:
Like you, we believe in the importance of play in spaces that are welcoming, inviting, and full of opportunity for endless WANDER and limitless WONDER for children to explore and grow within the world around them.

**We’re seeking Early**Childhood** Educators to**:

- Care for children in a wide variety of programs and neighbourhoods
- Be accountable to the children and families in our care, ensuring the constant safety and well-being is our top priority
- Adhere to Today’s Family’s policies and procedures and the College of ECEs Code of Ethics and Professional Practices to ensure the highest quality of interactions, relationships, and engagement with children and families
- Work collaboratively with children as our partners to co-create experiences to investigate, explore, and amplify their interests
- Offer dynamic, diverse, and unique programming that supports the well-being, engagement, and expression of children
- Consider and explore a wide variety of approaches to early learning, including Reggio-Emilia Approach, Play-based and Project-based Learning, Outdoor Education, Arts-based Learning, HIGH Five Principles of Healthy Child Development, Positive Youth Development, among other evidence-based approaches and practices
- Facilitate belonging for children and families by creating welcoming, accepting, and safe environments for children and families to learn and play
- Work collaboratively to build strong family partnerships in our communities through meaningful communication, facilitation of events and opportunities to involve and engage families in our work
- Be innovative in their approach to alignment with Ontario’s emergent curriculum and guiding pedagogical philosophy, ‘How Does Learning Happen?’
- Ensure a strong commitment to leading and caring with an intent for Equity, respect for Diversity, demand for Inclusion, and facilitation of Belonging that every family deserves

**How does Today’s Family stand out as an employer of CHOICE?**
- Today’s Family is the place to **GROW** With many programs and types