Daycare Teacher

BJC HealthCare • St. Louis, MO

20d • Onsite

About The Position

Do you have a passion for helping young children learn, grow, and thrive? Join the team at St. Louis Children's Child Development Center and make a meaningful difference in the lives of children every day. Our center provides high-quality childcare for the children of BJC HealthCare and Washington University employees, serving infants through children up to 6 years old. As a Daycare Teacher, you'll work in a supportive, child-focused environment where your creativity, compassion, and dedication are valued.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree
• 2-5 years of experience

Nice To Haves

• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Responsibilities

• Communicates effectively by being friendly, nurturing, and building bonds with children, by providing daily written documentation and keeping children’s portfolios current to keep parents informed of their child’s progress, and by building positive relationships with families.
• Organizes learning centers and provides activities and materials to support children’s developmental and educational needs, stimulating creativity and curiosity, and giving children a sense of security. Will also write and implement developmentally appropriate lesson plans pertinent to the goals established for the needs of individual children while always maintains a global view/supervision of children and child/staff ratio at all times.
• Facilitates an environment of healthy social and emotional development by using positive guidance techniques and redirection, encouraging and modeling responsibility and respect, by recognizing and supporting children’s personalities, learning styles, and individual differences.
• Builds positive working relationships with team as a model of appropriate behavior for children and obtaining clock hour training per accreditation/licensing requirements.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree