Lead Toddler Teacher, Early Childhood, Westwood

Starting $18 - $20 / hr

Sign-on Bonus $750.00

Available Location : Costars Westwood 3929 Boudinot Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45211

Responsible for ensuring young children receive quality childhood experiences that support their early learning, development and school readiness.

As a part of the Early Childhood and School Age team this position is also responsible for informing innovation and growth opportunities, leading a teaching team, creating a responsive preschool environment and implementing a developmentally appropriate curriculum for individual children and the classroom as a whole.

This includes administering developmental assessments implementing social and emotional strategies, communicating with parents and co-workers, providing guidance to assistant teachers and providing a healthy and safe environment for children.

Reporting Relationships :

Reports to : Early Care and Education Manager

Direct reports include : 0

Primary Responsibilities :

Administration

• Ensure that day-to-day licensing standards and requirements set by the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, accreditation bodies, and Step Up to Quality are maintained.
• Supports completion and collection of evaluation measures and adherence to best practice and agency standards. Assists with completion of all required program reporting and paperwork including but not limited to assessment data and licensing reports for external purposes on time.
• Complies with all regulations concerning client confidentiality in all settings.
• Manages and oversees staff credentials and required training hours for SUTQ and Licensing.
• Coordinates and establishes activity calendar, completes lesson plans with best practice standards and regulatory requirements and ensure effective implementation of all plans utilizing the SUTQ Standards and Creative Curriculum program structure.
• Ensures that lesson plans are being carried out, student goals and portfolios are updated monthly.
• Promote quality within program areas and identify appropriate action plans incorporating feedback from the ELLCO, PAS, and teacher observations to accurately reflect and promote resolutions of identified challenges /
• Ensure that implementation and action plans are accurate, current and documented.
• Supports Enrollment and Engagement Specialist in meeting enrollment targets.
• Manages program expenses and adheres to program budget requirements including management of staff hours.
• Manage and complete all required program reporting and paperwork including but not limited to assessment data on time.
• Is involved in the Individual Education Plans (IEP) process as well as implements the IEP in their individualized planning for each child.

Minimum Education, Experience and Other Skill Requirements :

This position requires an associates degree in Early Childhood Education or higher. Bachelor's Degree is preferred. Direct teaching experience in a preschool, preferably in a Head Start or Preschool environment.

Must have a strong knowledge of social and emotional development and developmentally appropriate practices for preschoolers.

Must be flexible in work schedule, responsibilities and physically capable of performing the job of a teacher of young children.

Must be open to new ideas and strategies in order to improve work performance. Must possess minimum technical skills including familiarity with Microsoft Windows and ability to use standard Microsoft Office applications.

Work Environment :

Exposed to a combination of office, school, and mental health treatment environments. Exposed to children with behavior problems.

May be exposed to shouting and children who are upset.

Physical demands :

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to :

Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend and lift objects of up to 20 pounds.

Culture :

Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is Greater Cincinnati’s most prolific non-profit specializing in education, behavioral and therapeutic health services and autism services for vulnerable, at-risk youth, their families, and caregivers.

Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is proud to embrace our ideals of an equal opportunity workplace by actions as well as our words.

We lead our community with respect and tolerance, internally and externally, and we expect our employees to embrace this ideal and express it in their day-to-day interactions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against, based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.