Lead Infant Teacher

Florida United Methodist Children's Home; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 16,531 - 22,041; Full time

Job summary

Residing Hope in Enterprise, FL is seeking a dedicated Child Care Assistant for a full-time, hourly role. The position runs Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, and involves supporting children with daily routines, meals, and engaging activities in a group setting.

Qualifications include a High School diploma or higher, with CDA certification preferred. The role requires teamwork with staff, documentation, and regular communication with families to ensure a nurturing environment.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or higher required.
• CDA certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establishes a warm and friendly, yet objective relationship with the children.
• Helps children eat, dress, and participate in activities to foster healthy habits.
• Provides care and protection of children and meets their individual needs.
• Keeps daily attendance and meals, and documents absences and progress.
• Communicates with parents through daily progress reports and meetings as needed.
• Performs general housekeeping duties in the center to maintain a clean environment.

Education

High School Diploma or higher

CDA Certification

Job description

Overview

This is a full-time, hourly position working Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. The position is located in Enterprise, FL.

Do you believe that every child deserves a healthy, happy, nurturing environment in which to grow? If so, we look forward to you joining Residing Hope where you can make a positive difference to children and families in need.

Why Residing Hope?

At Residing Hope, we believe that children and families should be empowered to experience the transforming love of Christ through evidence-based care and holistic services. This is reflected in our work as we care for children in crisis, including those abused, abandoned or neglected.

We give love, hope, and a place to live to more than 500 children through group homes, foster care, an independent living program, and specialized therapy.

What You Need

• High School Diploma or higher
• Child Development Associate (CDA) certification, preferred

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Establishes a warm and friendly, yet objective relationship with the children.
• Helps children to eat, dress, and do other activities, which foster appropriate habits.
• Provides care and protection of children and meets their individual needs.
• Participates in staff meetings and helps to plan goals.
• Participates in State and CCRN required training.
• Ensures that equipment and materials are accessible and in good condition.
• Attends and participates in meetings and workshops related to group child care.
• Distributes, arranges, and maintains teaching materials and equipment.
• Reports any significant problems of progress or any unusual behavior of children to the Director.
• Keeps an incident log to observe and record significant individual and group behavior. Also records any incident, injury or area of concern and documents significant parent interactions.
• Communicates with parents through daily progress reports, conversations, conferences, notes and PAC meetings in support of the lead teacher.
• Keeps daily attendance and meal counts. Documents reasons for absences.
• Performs general housekeeping duties in the center; maintaining the room in a neat, clean, aesthetically pleasing manner, conducive to constructive play appropriate for the age group served.
• Is always friendly and helpful to children, staff and parents.
• Maintains responsibility and direct supervision of all children in the group during on-duty hours.
• Assists in planning a flexible weekly program for the children on appropriate lesson plan sheets based on curriculum outline and the developmental stages of the children.
• Changes diapers according to written procedures, cleans up messes such as vomit, diarrhea, or toilet floods as needed.
• Maintains a positive attitude and supports the efforts of the whole team.
• Decorates the room, door and bulletin boards according to daily, weekly and monthly schedule.
• Remains in the Child Care Center during assigned hours, unless specifically assigned duty elsewhere.
• Perform all other job duties and responsibilities, as assigned.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

House Bill 531 (2025) Requires that we provide the following link that we screen all applicants through the Clearinghouse https://info.flclearinghouse.com

As part of our commitment to safety and child protection, Residing Hope requires all candidates for positions with access to children and teens to complete the Diana Screen. The Diana Screen is a scientifically validated online sexual risk screen designed to help identify individuals who may not recognize appropriate sexual boundaries between adults and children. It is not a test of intelligence, but a tool to measure attitudes and potential risk.