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We are currently recruiting for a Child Caregiver to work at our Women's Residential Facility in Lorain.

Summary:

The Child Caregiver provides care for infants and toddler from age birth through 5 years while their mothers are attending treatment services within the facility.

Essential Functions:

Maintains an open, friendly, and cooperative relationship with each child and family. Promotes parent-child bonding and nurturing parent-child relationships. Promotes feelings of security and trust in infants and toddlers. Greets children and their parents warmly and with enthusiasm each morning. Assures that each child is warmly greeted upon arrival and each infant is held. Talks, sings, and reads to infants frequently. Responds quickly in a soothing and tender manner to children's cries or calls of distress. Responds consistently to infants' needs for food and comfort. Implements individualized feeding plans for children and respects individual preferences and eating styles. Tends to children's personal hygiene needs, remaining especially attentive to them during routines such as diaper changing, cleaning, feeding, and changing soiled or wet clothes. Respects infants' curiosity about each other; ensures that children treat each other gently. Organizes each day's activities to provide children with a variety of experiences and opportunities that allow them to develop curiosity, initiative, problem-solving skills, and creativity, as well as a sense of self and a feeling of belonging to the group. Conducts developmental screenings and ongoing assessments of infants to determine motor, language, social, cognitive perceptual and emotional skills. Completes timely, neat, accurate documentation of screenings, assessments, individualized plans, attendance, daily health checklist, feedings, daily activity logs for parents, inventories, and other documentation as may be deemed necessary for proving quality services. Maintains a safe, clean, care-giving environment, practices good personal hygiene and hand washing, and assures the well being and safety of all of the children in that environment. Maintains a positive, calm attitude and a pleasant, soothing voice, and models this attitude and voice for parents and others working or volunteering in the program. Maintains a cooperative attitude of working together with other Child Caregivers, residential and clinical staff, the program director, parents and volunteers in planning and implementing activities for the program/classroom. Protects all children from physical punishment or verbal abuse by anyone in any program activity, and immediately reports any such incident to the program director or person in charge. Provides for the physical safety of each child from arrival time until departure time. Observes children to detect signs of illness, injury, abuse, neglect, emotional disturbance, or other special needs, and reports these signs immediately to the program director or person in charge. Attends all training opportunities and staff meetings as provided and scheduled. Performs any other tasks deemed necessary by the program director.

General Requirements:

One year of experience in an early childhood program serving infants and toddlers in a developmentally appropriate environment is required. Must have training and experience necessary to develop consistent, stable, and supportive relationships with very young children. Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. Must have the ability to effectively work with agency employees, outside contacts, and a diverse client population.

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