School Age Child Care Head Teacher

Summary
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position supports the work of the Y, a leading nonprofit, charitable organization committed to strengthening community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. TheSchool AgeHead Teacherat the Greater Waterbury YMCA plans, organizes and conducts a quality after school program for children 5 – 12 year olds, which promotes social, physical, emotional and cognitive development for each child.
Duties
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Assume responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of all children
• Plan, help facilitate, and participate in all activities with children
• Coordinate special events
• Implement YMCA Character Development into weekly plans
• Maintain standards of quality for all children and families
• Organize the designated program space to support children’s socio-emotional development
• Keep program space clean, orderly, attractive and safe
• Maintain a positive rapport with parents by supporting their role as parents
• Attend staff meetings and trainings as scheduled
• Maintain staff /child ratios
• Update and maintain childcare files according to State License Regulations
• Promote team oriented attitude.
• Supervise assistants and delegate responsibilities
• Be an exemplary role model
• Lead and train staff in carrying out daily center activities
• Keep accurate and clearly written records for monthly Nutrition Grant Report, if applicable
• Supervise and assist with children’s homework
• Participate in weekly swim lessons with the children in the water.
• Lead, train and evaluate staff in carrying out daily center activities
• Inform Child Care director or YMCA administration any significant issues related to staff, children, families and the center
• Advocate for children and their families
• All other duties as assigned by supervisor

Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be at least 20 years of age
• Have twelve (12) credits in early childhood education or child development, elementary education, recreation, group social work or a related field from a regionally accredited higher education institution Over not less than a nine (9) month span of time at least five hundred and forty (540) hours of documented supervised experience working with children in a program that serves school-Age Children (within the age range of 5 years to under 13 years).

OR

• A four (4) year college degree in elementary education, recreation, group social work or a related field from a regionally accredited higher education institution least two hundred and seventy (270) hours of documented supervised experience working with unrelated school-Age Children (within the age range of 5 years to under 13 years). This supervised experience could be student teaching or a practicum assignment
• Have a positive approach to discipline
• Possess a positive, creative and healthy attitude
• Prior to 1st day: completion of Child Abuse Prevention, CPR, First Aid, AED, and Blood borne Pathogens training.
• Must have a recent TB test and physical not more than 2 years old
• Finger printing done by your local police department
• Ability to relate effectively to diverse groups of people from all social and economic segments of the community.

Benefits

• Employee discount