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Stepping Stones Emergency Receiving Home requires a Full Time Evening Staff. Evening shifts are 8 hour shifts starting at 10:00 pm, 11:00pm or Midnight, ending at 6:00, 7:00 or 8:00 am .
This is an awake shifts with 1-2 other staff working with 8 children. Duties include but are not limiting to supervising and interacting with children at meal times ( breakfast), supervising and interacting with children during play time, planning developmentaly appropriate activites for the children, preparing children for bed time, comforting children who wake in the night, intake of new children in the night etc,,
While children are asleep the staff are responsible for meal prep, cleaning, completing paperwork and documentation as required.
This postion DOES require shift work, which includes weekday and weekend overnight shifts, AND also includes working on Statutory holidays.
$ 1.00 per hour wage premium for hours worked after 6:00 pm and on weekends.
Generous group benifts after 6 mos, including medical, dental, short and long term disability, matching RRSP's.
Candidates must possess a current First Aid/CPR certificate.
Must pass a criminal record check and a medical (with TB test).
Only those with a minimum of ONE years relevant post secondary education will be considered.
Rate of pay is $15.78 per hour for those with an Early Childhood Education, Teacher Assistant, or Youth Care Worker CERTIFICATE. LPN's or those with a minimum of 90 hours towards a Social Work Degree will also be paid $15.78 to start.
Those with an Early Childhood Education or Youth Care Worker DIPLOMA or RN's or those with a Social work degree will be paid $17.75 to start.
Those with recent relevant work experience may be started futher up on the payscale ( approx $1.00 per hour more).
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Children'S Ages
- 5 years
- 1 year
- 3 years
- 3-11 months
- 4 years
- Newborn
Transportation/Travel Information
- Public transportation is available
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- First Aid Certificate
- Food Safe Certificate
Early Childhood Education Skills
- Provide opportunity for creative expression through the mediums of art, dramatic play and music
- Provide supervision and guidance of daily activities, field trips and special activities
- Assess the developmental level of children
Additional Skills
- Supervise staff, trainees or volunteers
- Maintain day care supplies and equipment
- Assist in housekeeping duties
- Assist in maintaining records of children
Early Childhood Educator Assistant Skills
- Prepare craft materials and assist children to use them
- Prepare and serve snacks
- Observe children and report on observations to supervisor
- Guide children in development of proper eating, dressing and toilet habits
- Discuss progress and problems of children at staff meetings
- Conduct and monitor activity programs designed for young children
- Bathe, diaper and feed infants and toddlers
- Arrange transition periods such as lunch and rest for children
Experience With Children Who Have Special Needs
- Children who are blind or visually impaired
- Children who are deaf or hard of hearing
- Children with a mental health disability
- Children with a physical disability
- Children with an intellectual disability
- Children with behavioural issues
Work Location Information
- Urban area
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Child abuse registry check