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Assistant
Full-timeSweet Pea’s Early Learning Place
(Yelm, WA)
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Family home early learning program Family home early learning program is an early learning program licensed by the department where a family home licensee provides child care or education services for 12 or fewer children in the family living quarters where the licensee resides.
- Hours of Operation: 6:30 am - 6:00 pm
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Ages:
Toddlers
Preschool
- Language(s): English
- Pay Rate: $20/hr
- Contact Person: Linda M Leslie
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https://www.kinside.com/childcare/wa/yelm/sweet-peas-early-learning-place
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This is a family childcare with a separate business space.
Visit URL: https://www.kinside.com/childcare/wa/yelm/sweet-peas-early-learning-place
I am expanding and looking for assistants that share my value of preserving childhood as a time of open-ended exploration.
Much of our time is spent outdoors, you need to be a weather warrior.
I recommend looking at our Facebook page to get a better view of the environment.
Date Posted: April 10, 2024
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Lead Teacher
Full-timeCountry kids Childcare Center
(Orting, Washington)
- Type/Program:
Child care center early learning program Child care center early learning program is a facility providing regularly scheduled care for a group of children birth through 12 years old for periods of less than 24 hours a day.
- Hours of Operation: 5:30 am to 6:30 pm
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Ages:
Preschool
School Age
- Language(s): English
- Pay Rate: $18-$25/hr.
- Contact Person: Traci Park
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Country Kids is expanding! We are in need of a full time class room teacher for 3 1/2 – 5 years old. We are currently a school age center in process of being licensed for a class room of 8 students.We are looking for both school age teacher and for the best candidate for the preschool extension,both job openings can be filled now as of 4/15/2024 please apply if serious and long term committed ,we welcome you and you will love it here at our small country setting.
Visit URL: countrykidsorting.com
Date Posted: April 10, 2024
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Assistant Teacher
Full-timeWellspring Family Services
(Seattle, WA)
- Type/Program:
Child care center early learning program Child care center early learning program is a facility providing regularly scheduled care for a group of children birth through 12 years old for periods of less than 24 hours a day.
- Hours of Operation: 8:45 AM - 5:15 PM
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Ages:
Preschool
- Language(s):
- Pay Rate: $23.81 - $24.78*
- Contact Person: Marie Malone
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Job Description
Title: Assistant Preschool Teacher – 3–5-year-olds
Dept.: Childhood Services (ELC)
Reports to: Early Learning Program Supervisor
Wage: $23.81 – $24.78 per hour*
Type: Full-Time/40 hours per week
Location: 1900 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA; on-site (WA residency required)To Apply:
Go to: https://wellspringfs.org/about/careers and click on “Career Center” to apply.
Who We Are:
Our Vision: A community in which every child has a safe and stable home.
Our Purpose: To prevent and address homelessness by connecting families and individuals in crisis to the support and resources they need to regain stability.
For 130 years, Wellspring Family Services has worked to end family homelessness by making it easy for families and employees in crisis to access the services they need to regain stability. A non-profit, multi-service agency, Wellspring serves children, youth, and families throughout King County.
Wellspring has five primary programs. The Housing Services division provides eviction prevention and rehousing services to vulnerable populations in three counties. The Early Learning Center delivers trauma-informed early childhood education to children, ages 1 to 5, who have experienced homelessness. The Family Store supplies clothing, toiletries, toys, diapers, and baby equipment to low-income families so they can better afford rent and other basic needs. Our Employee Assistance Program connects employees with the resources they need to address crises, retain housing, and remain employed.
Wellspring Family Services is committed to a diverse and accessible workplace. Everyone is welcome. We strongly encourage applicants from under-represented communities, including BIPOC, non-conforming gender identities & sexual orientation, people with lived experience of homelessness, veterans, immigrants, and people with disabilities.
All applications are reviewed by a real person. To request disability accommodation in the application or interview process, please contact [email protected].
Position Purpose:
The Assistant Preschool Teacher, under the guidance of the Lead Preschool Teacher, assists the Lead Preschool Teacher in delivering specialized early learning services through a trauma-informed care approach and providing parent support and advocacy to children and families experiencing challenges in their lives.
Essential Functions:
• Curriculum Implementation: Assists with planning developmentally appropriate curriculum that is responsive to individual children that fosters their emotional, physical, cognitive, language, and social development. Prepares materials needed daily for the curriculum. Schedules field trips as necessary to support the curriculum.
• Classroom Management: Assists with setting standards of conduct and organization for the classroom. Assists Lead Preschool Teacher in classroom management and preparation. Conducts teacher team meetings and guides volunteers. Uses time effectively to complete tasks. Organizes and sets up classroom environment. Monitors condition of classroom and playground materials. Ensures that children are always supervised.
• Parental Support: Assists with maintaining open lines of communication with parents. Develops and implements parent/child events. Respects cultural differences in child rearing practices. Recognizes individual needs of parents and works cooperatively with parents to try to meet those needs. Consults with parents regarding issues related to health, development, safety, nutrition, and education in collaboration with ELC team. Plans and conducts parent-teacher conferences.
• Effective Discipline and Guidance: Assists with providing and explaining consistent and clear rules to children, redirects inappropriate behavior through positive reinforcement, helps children to deal with anger and frustration, conducts smooth transitions, sets realistic limits, and plans ahead to prevent behavioral issues. Uses Trauma-informed Care approach to guide children’s behaviors.
• Administrative: Assists with conducting child assessments, written observations of children and determining progress of each child. Prepares monthly classroom newsletter, notes and other written documents to parents as needed. Submits required documents to supervisor in a timely manner.
• Child Health Care Needs: Assists with observing children for indication of neglect, abuse, illness, or developmental delays and collaborates with ELC team during case consultations to develop a plan to meet children’s needs. Actively supports nutritional needs of children during mealtimes.
• Collaboration: Works effectively with supervisor and other team members to deliver the best possible education and care to the children. Willingly shares ideas and opinions and encourages other team members to do the same. Listens and communicates with others in a respectful way, avoiding listening blocks and contaminated messages. Does not allow conflict with another team member to interfere with the responsibility to the children, meeting the needs of the children first and dealing with the conflict separately and in private as soon as feasible.
Additional Responsibilities:
• Compliance: Adheres to licensing requirements as well as agency and program policies. Displays consistency and reliability with attendance.
• ELC Representation: Welcomes and assists children, visitors, and staff in a helpful and professional manner. Act in a manner consistent with Wellspring’s values at all times.
• Professional Development: Demonstrates a commitment to continuous learning by seeking out professional development and ongoing training opportunities. Demonstrates a commitment to self-reflection and the ongoing development of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Works closely with Early Childhood Mental Health Clinical Supervisor and Early Learning Program Supervisor to build one’s reflective capacity.
• Advocacy: Advocates for children to receive additional services related to behavioral or developmental concerns.
• Support and act in a manner consistent with Wellspring’s values.
• Additional tasks and projects may be assigned as needed.
Requirements:
Candidates must meet all the following qualifications to be considered for this position:
• Education: Washington State ECE Initial Certificate or current CDA or 12 ECE (Early Childhood Education) credits. Candidates who do not meet this requirement will be asked to go on an education plan to attain a Washington State ECE Initial Certificate or CDA or 12 ECE credits.
• Experience: One year of experience working in a licensed early learning center with children ages one to five. Experience working with diverse staff, clients, and vulnerable populations (e.g., children who have experienced trauma, homelessness, or other significant adversity). Experience with anti-bias teaching practices.
• Upon Employment: Fully vaccinated against COVID-19, TB test results, proof of MMR vaccine, successful completion of WA State/DCYF Background Check in MERIT.
• Within 30 Days of Hire: Food Handler’s Card, First Aid Certification, Infant/Child CPR Certification, AIDS/HIV Training, Bloodborne Pathogens Training.
• Highly developed awareness of diversity, equity, and inclusion, with evolved ability to practice appropriate, relevant, and thoughtful strategies for working with diverse populations.
Preferred Qualifications:
The following qualifications have been identified as particularly beneficial and candidates who have attained them will be preferred in the hiring process. The successful candidate who meets one or more of these qualifications will be eligible for starting pay rate premium:
• A.A. in ECE or A.A. in any field and 20 ECE credits MERIT verified: $24.78/hr. starting pay.
* Wellspring does not engage in pay negotiation as this practice contributes to pay inequity. Salary for the successful candidate is calculated by Wellspring. Premiums may be applied for candidates that are able to verify their achievement of preferred qualifications.
Physical & Mental Requirements:
• Washington State resident at start date
• Proof of MMR vaccination or qualification for exemption
• This position requires regular and predictable attendance.
• This position involves occasionally ascending/descending a ladder or stepstool to hang classroom materials or access supplies.
• This position requires focused mental activity over a significant portion of the workday.
• This position involves contact with children who are ill and/or contagious and the person in this position must take precautions to ensure the health and safety of all children, parents, and staff, as well as him/herself/themselves.
• This position involves manual dexterity and motor coordination to serve food and handle dishes/trays with agility and speed. Serving may involve repetitive wrist motion.
• This position involves expressing or exchanging ideas through verbal means (oral or electronic) to convey detailed or important information to clients and co-workers, in person or over the telephone. Must be able to exchange accurate information in high-stress situations.
• This position requires a person who can reason and apply logic and knowledge of various options in an environment requiring speedy, high-quality decisions.
• This position requires a person capable of responding promptly to accidents and emergencies in an effective manner.
• This position requires the ability to lift, carry or move children or equipment up to 40 pounds.
• This position requires working in a noisy environment with many separate activities happening all at once.
• This position involves occasional work in outdoor weather conditions.
• This position involves substantial movements of the wrists, hands and/or fingers, as in keyboard use or other means of silently recording information on computers.
• This position involves experiencing smells associated with toileting and ill children.
• This position requires spending time sitting on the floor or on child-sized furniture.
• This position requires responding in a high-demand environment with people in varying degrees of distress.
Please note that employees should expect to perform some tasks that are outside the scope of the job description.
Employee Benefits:
Choice of 3 Medical Plans • 30 days paid time off per year, plus 10 paid employee holidays • Dental • Life Insurance • Long-Term Disability • 403b Retirement Plan • Flexible Spending Accounts • Health Savings Account • Employee Assistance Program • Employee Resource Groups • Counseling Session Reimbursement • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Training
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Wellspring employees may use their time with us toward their participation in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF).Assistant Preschool Teacher
Pay PremiumsStandard Hourly Pay: $23.81 per hour
Visit URL: www.wellspringfs.org
The successful candidate must demonstrate to Wellspring’s satisfaction that they meet one or more of the preferred qualifications before a premium can be added to the standard salary. Final salary is defined by Wellspring based on verifiable information and documentation provided by the candidate during the recruitment process.
Wellspring does not engage in wage negotiation as it contributes to pay inequity.
Education Premiums (all certifications which expire must be current)
• A.A. in ECE or A.A. in any field and 20 ECE credits MERIT verified: $24.78/hr. starting pay.
Date Posted: March 4, 2024
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Temporary, Fulltime- 1-3 monthsIhsan Childcare & Preschool
(Renton, WA)
- Type/Program:
Family home early learning program Family home early learning program is an early learning program licensed by the department where a family home licensee provides child care or education services for 12 or fewer children in the family living quarters where the licensee resides.
- Hours of Operation: 8 am to 6 pm
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Ages:
Birth to 13 years
- Language(s): English
- Pay Rate: $25/hr.
- Contact Person: Antisar Hachem
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Temporary full-time job
Visit URL: www.ihsanchildcare.com
Monday to Friday
9 am to 6 pm
start date March 25th
End date May 3rd
Date Posted: February 6, 2024
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Aide Position
Part-time1stStart Learning Family Home Center LLC
(Seattle, WA)
- Type/Program:
Family home early learning program Family home early learning program is an early learning program licensed by the department where a family home licensee provides child care or education services for 12 or fewer children in the family living quarters where the licensee resides.
- Hours of Operation: 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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Ages:
Birth to 13 years
- Language(s): English
- Pay Rate: $20.00 to $25.00/hr
- Contact Person: Katherine Green
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Job Title: Child Care Classroom Aide
Visit URL: n/a
Job Summary:
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate individual to join our team as a Child Care Classroom Aide. As a vital
member of our childcare center, you will assist the lead teacher in creating a safe, nurturing, and engaging environment
for young children. The ideal candidate should have a passion for working with children, the ability to relate well to
children, and be able to positively contribute to the classroom environment.
Responsibilities:
1. Assist Lead Teacher: Support the lead teacher in implementing age-appropriate curriculum and activities that promote
the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development of children.
2. Supervision: Maintain a safe and secure environment by actively supervising children during all activities, both indoors
and outdoors.
3. Personal Care: Assist children with personal care tasks, including diapering, toileting, and handwashing, always
ensuring their well-being.
4. Positive Reinforcement: Encourage positive behavior through effective communication, positive reinforcement, and
redirection when necessary.
5. Communication: Establish and maintain open communication with parents, addressing any concerns or questions.
6. Classroom Organization: Assist in organizing and maintaining a clean, organized, and stimulating classroom
environment.
7. Meals: Prepare and serve meals. Encourage development of sound nutritional practices.
8. Emergency Procedures: Be familiar with and follow emergency procedures, including evacuation plans and first aid protocols.
9. Fulfill all responsibilities in accordance with the provided employee handbook.
Qualifications:
1. High School Diploma or equivalent; relevant coursework in early childhood education is a plus.
2. Prior experience working with young children in a childcare or educational setting preferred.
3. Ability to pass a background check.
Requirements: (ability to pass and obtain)
1. CPR and First Aid certification.
2. TB Test
3. Food Handlers Permit
4. Safe Sleep and Blood Borne Pathogens Certificate
5. Child Care Basics Training (30 hours)
6. ECE Initial Certificate
Physical Requirements:
– Ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
– Ability to sit, stand, bend, and move actively throughout the day.
Hours and Compensation:
– Part-time 24.5 Hours: M,W,F 12:00 – 4:30 and T, TH 12:00- 5:30
– Pay: $20.00 – $25.00 per hour (DOE)
If you are enthusiastic about contributing to the growth and development of young children and possess the necessary
skills and qualities, we invite you to apply for the position of Child Care Classroom Aide. Please submit your resume and
a cover letter detailing your relevant experience
Date Posted: January 24, 2024
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Special Needs Teacher
Part-time1stStart Learning Family Home Center LLC
(Seattle, WA)
- Type/Program:
Family home early learning program Family home early learning program is an early learning program licensed by the department where a family home licensee provides child care or education services for 12 or fewer children in the family living quarters where the licensee resides.
- Hours of Operation: 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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Ages:
Birth to 13 years
- Language(s): English
- Pay Rate: $25.00 to $35.00/hr
- Contact Person: Katherine Green
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We are looking for a trained Special Needs Teacher to work with children birth to 13 years. Hours, days and times can be flexible.
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Date Posted: January 24, 2024
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Assistant Teacher
Part-time1st Start Learning Family Home Center LLC
(Seattle, WA)
- Type/Program:
Family home early learning program Family home early learning program is an early learning program licensed by the department where a family home licensee provides child care or education services for 12 or fewer children in the family living quarters where the licensee resides.
- Hours of Operation: 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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Ages:
Birth to 13 years
- Language(s): English
- Pay Rate: $20.00-$25.00/hr
- Contact Person: Katherine Green
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Job Title: Child Care Classroom Assistant
Visit URL: n/a
Job Summary:
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate individual to join our team as a Child Care Classroom Aide. As a vital
member of our childcare center, you will assist the lead teacher in creating a safe, nurturing, and engaging environment
for young children. The ideal candidate should have a passion for working with children, the ability to relate well to
children, and be able to positively contribute to the classroom environment.
Responsibilities:
1. Assist Lead Teacher: Support the lead teacher in implementing age-appropriate curriculum and activities that promote
the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development of children.
2. Supervision: Maintain a safe and secure environment by actively supervising children during all activities, both indoors
and outdoors.
3. Personal Care: Assist children with personal care tasks, including diapering, toileting, and handwashing, always
ensuring their well-being.
4. Positive Reinforcement: Encourage positive behavior through effective communication, positive reinforcement, and
redirection when necessary.
5. Communication: Establish and maintain open communication with parents, addressing any concerns or questions.
6. Classroom Organization: Assist in organizing and maintaining a clean, organized, and stimulating classroom
environment.
7. Meals: Prepare and serve meals. Encourage development of sound nutritional practices.
8. Emergency Procedures: Be familiar with and follow emergency procedures, including evacuation plans and first aid protocols.
9. Fulfill all responsibilities in accordance with the provided employee handbook.
Qualifications:
1. High School Diploma or equivalent; relevant coursework in early childhood education is a plus.
2. Prior experience working with young children in a childcare or educational setting preferred.
3. Ability to pass a background check.
Requirements: (ability to pass and obtain)
1. CPR and First Aid certification.
2. TB Test
3. Food Handlers Permit
4. Safe Sleep and Blood Borne Pathogens Certificate
5. Child Care Basics Training (30 hours)
6. ECE Initial Certificate
Physical Requirements:
– Ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
– Ability to sit, stand, bend, and move actively throughout the day.
Hours and Compensation:
– Part-time 24.5 Hours: M,W,F 12:00 – 4:30 and T, TH 12:00- 5:30
– Pay: $20.00 – $25.00 per hour (DOE)
If you are enthusiastic about contributing to the growth and development of young children and possess the necessary
skills and qualities, we invite you to apply for the position of Child Care Classroom Aide. Please submit your resume and
a cover letter detailing your relevant experience.
Date Posted: January 24, 2024
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Campus Director
Full-timeMachinists Institute – Little Wings Early Learning Academy
(Everett, WA)
- Type/Program:
Child care center early learning program Child care center early learning program is a facility providing regularly scheduled care for a group of children birth through 12 years old for periods of less than 24 hours a day.
- Hours of Operation: Extended
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Ages:
Birth to 13 years
- Language(s): English
- Pay Rate: $75,000- $90,000 Annual Salary plus generous benefits
- Contact Person: Human Resources
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This is a brand new position and campus. The Campus will house both a licensed center and Nature Preschool and Summer Camp program. Find the full description at: https://www.machinistsinstitute.org/join-the-team
Visit URL: https://www.machinistsinstitute.org/join-the-team
Date Posted: January 22, 2024
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Assistant Teacher
Full-timeDay & Night Childcare
(Pasco, Washington)
- Type/Program:
Family home early learning program Family home early learning program is an early learning program licensed by the department where a family home licensee provides child care or education services for 12 or fewer children in the family living quarters where the licensee resides.
- Hours of Operation: 7:00 am - 5:30 pm
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Ages:
Birth to 13 years
- Language(s): English, Spanish
- Pay Rate: TBD
- Contact Person: Wenndy Artiga
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Visit URL: N/A
Date Posted: January 17, 2024
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Classroom Assistant
Full-timeDenise Louie Education Center
(Seattle, WA)
- Type/Program:
Child care center early learning program Child care center early learning program is a facility providing regularly scheduled care for a group of children birth through 12 years old for periods of less than 24 hours a day.
- Hours of Operation: 7 am - 6 pm
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Ages:
Preschool
- Language(s):
- Pay Rate: $19.97 - $22.83
- Contact Person: Vertesia Gutierrez
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Date Posted: January 8, 2024
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