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YMCA of Regina Child Care is looking for a professional,
energetic, responsible, and committed person to join our team.
There will be a casual position available at our South and
Downtown locations. These locations provide care for
children aged 6 weeks to 6 years .
We have adopted the YMCA Playing to Learn curriculum.
Through this curriculum, we are able to:
-Plan developmentally appropriate and stimulating activities in
a play-based environment
-Participate in physical activities, including gym and swim
times
-Have child-led activities through carefully chosen equipment
and toys
-Teach children the values of caring, honesty, respect,
responsibility, and inclusiveness towards all living things
Requirements:
-Must have ECE Equivalency of Level 1, 2, or 3 (or willing to
obtain).
-Related experience is an asset
-Must have or be willing to obtain First Aid/CPR C
-Criminal Record Check in the vulnerable sector
-TB test
Incentives:
-YMCA Membership
-Comprehensive benefit package, including pension
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
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
Children'S Ages
- 5 years
- 1 year
- 2 years
- 3 years
- 4 years
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- First Aid Certificate
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
- Early Childhood Education Diploma or Degree
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
- Prepare progress reports and discuss with parents and other staff members
- Assess the developmental level of children
- Knowledge of licensing regulations
Additional Skills
- Maintain day care supplies and equipment
- Assist in maintaining records of children
Early Childhood Educator Assistant Skills
- Prepare craft materials and assist children to use them
- 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
Work Setting
- Child care centre
Security and Safety
- Bondable
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Child abuse registry check
- Tuberculosis test