Early Childhood Educator

or equivalent experience

**Experience with Special Needs Children**:

- Children who are deaf or hard of hearing
- Children with behavioural issues
- Children with epilepsy
- Children with allergies
- Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or attention deficit disorder (ADD)
- Children with Down syndrome

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

- First Aid Certificate
- Early Childhood Education (ECE) Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Member of the College of Early Childhood Educators (CECE)

**Children's Ages**:

- Up to 12 years

**Additional Skills**:

- Supervise staff, trainees or volunteers
- Order supplies and equipment
- Assist early childhood educators or supervisors in keeping records
- Attend staff meetings to discuss progress and problems of children
- Plan and organize activities for school-age children in child-care programs before and after regular school hours
- Supervise and co-ordinate activities of other early childhood educators and early childhood educator assistants
- Storytelling

**Work Setting**:

- Child care centre

**Security and Safety**:

- Immunization records
- Criminal record check
- Vulnerable sector check

**Work Site Environment**:

- Outdoors
- Noisy
- Non-smoking
- Air conditioned

**Transportation/Travel Information**:

- Own transportation

**Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities**:

- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling

**Ability to Supervise**:

- 5-10 people

**Work Location Information**:

- Urban area

**Personal Suitability**:

- Flexibility
- Team player
- Interpersonal awareness
- Dependability
- Judgement
- Values and ethics
- Reliability
- Punctuality

**Early Childhood Educators Specific Skills**:

- Knowledge of Day Nurseries Act
- 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
- Dental plan

**Long term benefits**:

- Group insurance benefits

**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- Do you have education in this field of employment?