Head Teacher

Description

Clifford Beers Community Care Center is now hiring a dynamic and experienced Head Teacher for our Early Childhood Center in New Haven, CT!

The Head Teacher leads a team responsible for preparing and facilitating curriculum goals/standards in the classroom and ensuring the safety, development, and school readiness of the children they serve. Reports to the Director. Monday through Friday. 37.5 hours per week.

PURPOSE:

• Ensures the safety and health of children under his/her supervision
• Provides a comprehensive child development program
• Works together with families to develop the skills necessary for school readiness of the children
• Conducts focused observations of children
• Develops action plans
• Carries out activities on a daily basis and evaluate the effectiveness of prosocial child development activities
• Contributes to the effective operation of the overall early care and education center
• Focus on data-driven results to improve classroom performance and operation
• Complies and follows state licensing regulations
• Plans and implements appropriated classroom activities based on individual needs of the children and group
• Carries out goals, policies, and activities outlined in the Performance Standards as well as in local and federal regulations
• Maintains individual files on required information for each child
• Maintains regular communication with parents, including classroom committee, written documentation and personal contact
• Assists in appropriate referrals for children and families
• Plans and ensures completion of developmental screening, lesson plans, home visits, documentation, and anecdotal observations within required time frame
• Plans, develops and implements individual education plan if needed
• Maintains proper classroom coverage, 1 staff:4 children
• Maintains small group interactions to no more than 4 pre-school students
• Responds quickly to children’s different and personal needs
• Assist with transition into the program.
• Ensure that childcare routines are carried out in a manner that is prompt, hygienic, and consistent with good child development principles. This includes routines related to diapering, hand washing, eating, napping, and transitioning between activities, and others.
• Ensure the safety of children through constant supervision
• Participates and follows program policy regarding regular practice of fire drills and other emergency procedures such as code red.
• Participate in regularly schedule conferencing sessions, staff meetings, parent meetings, home visits, in-service training, and other meetings as directed.
• Greets children’s and their parents warmly and with enthusiasm every day.
• Provide daily care individually to each child, including but not limited to diapering and feeding when necessary.
• Observe children to detect signs of illness, injury, abuse, neglect, or other special need, and report these signs immediately to supervisor.
• Maintain confidentiality of child and family information at all times.
• Eat with and assist children in development of social and self-help skills, and sound nutritional practices during all meals.
• Maintain a safe and healthy classroom environment. Assure that classroom equipment, furniture, materials, and supplies are properly maintained and stored.
• Participates in program annual self-assessment.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and be flexible to changes deemed necessary by Management
• Ability to analyze complex problems and able to resolve the problems in a reasonable time-frame based upon state and federal policies and regulations.
• Must have strong team building skills.
• Utilize program data-gathering instruments.
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Set up and maintain appropriate records and files.
• Complete tasks in a timely manner.
• Considerable amount of variable levels of concentration with frequent or constant interruptions.
• Must be able to handle multi-faceted tasks on a frequent basis.
• Must have the ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Dedication to working closely and cooperatively in a community-based organization with diverse staff, clients, families and/or partnerships.
• Sense of humor, high ethical professional standards, and multi-cultural perspective.
• Flexible and adaptable to change and/or able to acquire the necessary skills to work in a creative and demanding environment including the ability to problem-solve and manage ambiguity and adversity.
• Ability to work in an open, fast-paced, nontraditional agency under high pressure and sometimes competing deadlines.
• Ability to demonstrate cooperative behavior at all times and communicate well with all levels of staff, supervisors, children and families.
• Computer literate and comfortable with acquiring new technology skills.
• Ability to work with adults, children

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education/Child Development; Bachelor’s preferred
• At least three years of experience working with preschool aged children in a group setting.
• Physical exam, TB test, background checks, and fingerprinting.
• Attends First Aid, CPR, and mandatory training workshops.
• Ability to perform physical activities needed in the daily care of children.
• Must be at least 18 years old - bilingual a plus.
• Computer literate and comfortable with acquiring new technology skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Commitment to diversity/inclusion, integrity, and excellence.

FNS Mission Statement

Farnam Nursery School fosters a love of learning that encourages all children to see the world as a place of wonder and possibility. Our program provides a rich and robust preschool environment that is safe and nurturing. Planned, daily activities align with the proven Teaching Strategies Creative Curriculum. Our highly trained teachers show respect, care, and commitment to all members of our community.

As an organization committed to Anti-Racist practice, we strongly encourage people of color, LGBTQ , veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer who will welcome everyone to our team! If you need reasonable accommodations at any point during the interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use. (For example- she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc.)

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $40,000.00 - $42,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• New Haven, CT: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

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Salary : $37,500 - $42,000