Early Childhood Supervisor

Mykidsunlimited; Searcy (AR); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Kids Unlimited Learning Academy seeks an enthusiastic educator to oversee the Day Habilitation program for children birth to age 7 with special needs. You will supervise staff, coordinate referrals for clinical services, and ensure high-quality treatment rooms with regular assessments and IETP updates.

Join a clinic that emphasizes patient-centered care and multidisciplinary collaboration, with licensed therapists on staff and a focus on meaningful developmental outcomes for every child.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus one of the following: Arkansas Certification in Early Childhood Special Education, Child Development Associate Certificate, or 12 hours of relevant ECE coursework with experience with special needs.
• Experience: at least one year in a classroom with developmentally at-risk children or equivalent.
• Skills: ability to communicate professionally with diverse people; work with birth-7 years old and families; strong organizational and computer skills; multitask; read and write; basic math; follow instructions.

Responsibilities

• Supervises the Day Habilitation Program.
• Coordinate treatment room referrals for additional clinical services.
• Conducts formal Day Habilitation treatment room observations and provides reports.
• Teaches in Day Habilitation Treatment Room as needed.
• Reviews treatment room documentation per Director's schedule.
• Ensures proper assessment and IETP development and updates.
• Conducts annual performance reviews of day staff; attends multidisciplinary meetings.

Skills

Communication

Birth-7 years

Organizational skills

Computer skills

Multitasking

Reading/writing

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Arkansas Certification in ECE

Child Development Associate Certificate

12 hours in ECE coursework

Tools

Database

Word processing

Spreadsheet

Internet

Job description

We are seeking an enthusiastic educator to create an exciting & challenging experience for children with special needs. Help prepare young children for meaningful lives by teaching cognitive, social-emotional and motor skills throughout the day. Join our culture of patient-centered care.

Kids Unlimited Learning Academy (KULA) is an early intervention day treatment clinic for children with special needs. Once children are referred to KULA by their primary care physicians, they must receive a developmental screening. Then, they may be scheduled for therapy evaluations at KULA or bring recent therapy evaluation reports done elsewhere. To receive Early Intervention Day Treatment habilitation services, a child must have a documented developmental disability or delay, as shown on the results of an annual comprehensive developmental evaluation and qualify for at least one therapy service. Those services include (but are not limited to) fine motor delays, sensory disorders, gross motor delays, speech-language delays, hearing disorders, feeding disorders, developmental delays, cognitive delays and medical needs.

Children are placed in treatment rooms based on their developmental needs and ages. Our treatment rooms are adequately staffed with teachers and teachers' assistants and are designed to celebrate the cultural differences of the children and families we serve. KULA has many licensed occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists on staff to provide needed care to the children who qualify for therapy services. And, KULA has nurses on staff to serve children with medical needs.

KULA's services also include developmental/psychological testing by a licensed psychologist, nutritional evaluations and consultations, and audiological evaluations. Our whole treatment team works together and with our patients' families to make sure each child's needs are met.

KULA typically treats children from birth to Kindergarten. However, we try to expand our services during the summer months to include elementary school-aged children with special needs. If you have a child who may benefit from our services, we would love to hear from you.

POSITION PURPOSE

Oversees the Day Habilitation treatment program. Monitors the Early Childhood Developmental Specialists (ECDS) and Early Childhood Developmental Technicians (ECDT).

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & BASIC DUTIES

• Supervises the Day Habilitation Program.
• Coordinate treatment room referrals for additional clinical services.
• Conducts formal Day Habilitation Treatment room observations and provides a written report; informal observations are on-going.
• Teaches in Day Habilitation Treatment Room as required by Academy needs.
• Review treatment room documentation according to the schedule set forth by the Director.
• Conducts treatment room observations in each treatment room.
• Conducts reviews of the Academy to ensure that Arkansas Child Care Licensing and CHMS requirements are being mandated.
• Ensures that the proper assessment is administered to all patients according to the assessment schedule. Responsible for assessing all patients in treatment rooms which are supervised by Lead ECDT's.
• Ensures that an Individual Educational Treatment Plan (IETP) is developed and updated at least quarterly or more often if needed.
• Conducts Annual Performance Reviews of all day treatment staff and submits to the Director.
• Attends Multidisciplinary Patient Review meetings as scheduled.
• Attends transition conferences with local cooperatives and schools and provides input regarding the patient's needs to the conference members.
• Assists in maintaining classroom staff records, including licensures and certification and documentation of required in-service training.
• Assists Director with scheduling, interviewing, and planning working interviews for open treatment room positions.
• Conducts training/orientation for treatment room staff.
• Schedules monthly in-services and ensures that staff is notified.
• Completes orders for the treatment room. Assists Director with determining whether requested items are necessary and/or appropriate and provides written justification for the items.
• Develops and monitors list of treatment room supplies which should be consistently maintained in the clinic.
• Manages the enhancement grant in a timely manner pursuant to the requirements of the grant specifications.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education/ Certification:

• A Bachelor's Degree plus one of the following:
• Current Arkansas Certification in Early Childhood Special Education
• A current Child Development Associate Certificate
• 12 hours of completed college courses in one of the following areas-early childhood, child development, special education/elementary education or child and family studies and documented experience in working with children with special needs

Experience/ Knowledge required:

• Prefer at least one year of successful experience in a classroom setting working with developmentally at-risk children or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills/ Abilities:

• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with a wide variety of people
• Must be able to work with children birth to age 7 and families who are at risk
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and accuracy
• Basic computer skills which includes a working knowledge of database, word processing, spreadsheet, and Internet software
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a very busy environment
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, policies, and other company documents. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of families or employees of organization
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standard situations

Miracle Kids Success Academy/Kids Unlimited Learning Academy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.