• Child Care Specialist

    WestCare Foundation (Vega Baja, PR)


    Child Care Specialist

    Job Details

    Job Location

     

    Vega Baja - Bo. Pugnado Adento Carr 155 - Vega Baja, PR

    Position Type

    Full Time

    Education Level

    2 Year Degree

     

    Salary Range

     

    $10.50 - $10.50 Hourly

    Description

    Position Summary:

    The person in this position will assist the Children’s Coordinator in the provision of therapeutic childcare service for children from 0 – 3 years old in the daycare.

    Essential Job Functions:

    + Facilitates play activities according to the individualized development/education.

    + Document observations as required by the Children’s Coordinator.

    + Report observations and impressions to the Children’s Coordinator.

    + Ensures the facility is maintained according to DCF regulations at all times.

    + Transportation of children as necessary.

    + Embrace and embody the mission, vision, guiding principles, clinical vision and goals of WestCare Foundation

    + Completes all orientation and mandated training activities, including E-Learning Courses,

    + within required timeframes, and in accordance with the criteria established for this position.

    + Available to support aftercare hours, as needed.

    + Perform any other duties as assigned.

    Qualifications

    Essential Qualifications:

    Education:

    + Associate degree from an accredited college

    + Experience with children

    + Completed 120 hours to get National Child Care Credentials

    + HIV/AIDS Basic Education

    + 20 hours of continuing education required annually.

    + Valid CPR Certification

    Experience and Competencies:

    + Bilingual is preferred.

    + Excellent communication skills.

    + Ability to exercise good judgment and discretion.

    + Ability to work well in a team environment.

    + Adherence to the highest standard of ethical conduct, especially to standards governing confidentiality.

    + Professional appearance and demeanor.

    + Must be culturally/linguistically sensitive to populations served.

    Working Conditions:

    + Required skills and knowledge: Requires the ability to collect and analyze complex numerical and written data and verbal information to reach logical conclusions .

    + It requires the ability to work and cooperate with co-workers, managers, the public and employees at all levels to exchange ideas, information, instructions, and opinions.

    + Work is primarily performed in an office or residential treatment setting; and

    + Some outdoor activities may be required.

     

    Essential Physical and Mental Demands of the Job

     

    The employee must be able to perform the following essential duties and activities with or

     

    without accommodation.

    Physical Demands:

    + Requires mobility and physical activity: Having an adequate range of body motion and mobility to work in an office, residential, or outdoor environment including standing and walking (even and uneven surfaces), sitting for extended periods of time, bending, twisting, reaching, balancing, occasional lifting and carrying of up to 50 pounds. Use of computer and telephone systems is required which includes coordination of eye and hand, and fine manipulation by the hands (typing, writing, and working with files). Requires the ability to defend oneself and clients in physically abusive situations using approved physical de-escalation techniques.

    + Requires talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Talking is required to impart oral information to employees, clients, patients, and the public, and in those activities in which the employee is required to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly.

    + Requires hearing: Hearing is required to receive and communicate detailed information through oral communication.

    + Requires seeing: Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less and at distance. This factor is required to complete paperwork for many of the employee’s essential job functions and to observe client behavior and activities in and out of the facility.

    + The normal work routine involves no exposure to human blood, body fluids or tissues. However, exposure or potential exposure may be required as a condition of employment. Appropriate personal protective equipment will be readily available to every employee.

    Mental Demands:

    + Requires the ability to collect and analyze complex numerical and written data and verbal information to reach logical conclusions.

    + Requires the ability to work and cooperate with clients, co-workers, managers, the public and employees at all levels to exchange ideas, information, instructions, and opinions.

    + Requires the ability to work under stress and in emotionally charged settings.

    + The ability to defend oneself and clients in mentally/verbally abusive situations using approved mental/verbal de-escalation techniques.