Early Childhood Developmental Specialist (ECDS) - Pediatrics

FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CARE•Rogers, AR

25d•Onsite

About The Position

The Early Childhood Developmental Specialist provides instruction and evaluates children’s performance while creating a learning-focused classroom and positive relationships with children, families, and staff. The specialist develops individual plans of care and ensures their implementation in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team. The role includes planning and delivering individualized and group learning activities, monitoring and documenting children’s progress, completing evaluations and screenings, coordinating enrollment and annual review conferences, and supporting transitions to public school. It also includes maintaining classroom schedules and learning environments, preparing lesson plans and materials, communicating with families, and meeting childcare licensing, quality, safety, and documentation requirements. The specialist supervises and coaches assigned teacher assistants, conducts staff meetings and training, participates in professional development, and performs backup Lead Teacher duties as needed. The position is safety sensitive and requires maintaining confidentiality and complying with organizational, HIPAA, licensing, and quality assurance policies. Other related duties may be assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (B.S. or B.A.) from a four-year college or university.
One of the following: Child Development Associate credential; Birth to PreK credential; or documented experience working with children with special needs plus 12 completed college credit hours in early childhood, child development, special education, elementary education, or child/family studies.
Supervisory skills.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business and professional materials, technical procedures, and government regulations; draft reports and correspondence; and present information and respond to questions.
Ability to perform basic arithmetic, calculate rates, ratios, and percentages, and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to solve practical problems and interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule-based instructions.
Ability to perform the physical demands of the position, including standing, walking, reaching, sitting, climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, and occasionally lifting or moving up to 50 pounds.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and comply with applicable organizational and HIPAA policies.
Maintain current Infant/Toddler CPR, First Aid, and OSHA certifications; licensed teachers must maintain Arkansas teacher licensure in Early Childhood.

Responsibilities

Teach children and monitor and record their progress toward curriculum outcomes and individual plan-of-care goals.
Develop, complete, and implement plans of care and Individual Treatment Plans in collaboration with therapists, nursing staff, parents, and other team members.
Plan and deliver individualized and group learning activities, lesson plans, and skill lessons; prepare curriculum materials in advance.
Maintain an engaging classroom climate, classroom schedules, appropriate child participation, and classroom environments meeting ITERS/ECERS standards.
Set up, implement, and monitor behavior management systems and individualized behavior intervention plans as needed.
Participate in enrollment, annual review, and dismissal conferences; conduct interdisciplinary conferences and present and interpret evaluations to families.
Conduct developmental evaluations and screenings when qualified or as scheduled, and make referrals when appropriate.
Coordinate children’s transitions to public school, including contacting school districts, scheduling family conferences, and completing required paperwork.
Review and approve day habilitation notes in Credible for accuracy each day.
Communicate children’s progress and classroom information to parents, maintain regular family communications, and organize family involvement events.
Maintain required records, documentation, data, portfolios, and database entries, including ABC/ABCSS screening, Work Sampling/Ounce data, and COPA entries where applicable.
For ABC/ABCSS classrooms, conduct required parent-teacher conferences, provide the specified direct teaching hours, assist with enrollment, and help fill classroom openings when necessary.
Supervise, coach, and evaluate assigned teacher assistants; conduct regular staff meetings and develop or deliver staff training as needed.
Perform backup Lead Teacher duties when assigned and report suspected abuse or neglect promptly.
Attend required staff meetings, trainings, workshops, conferences, parent functions, and extracurricular activities, including travel when required.
Maintain required professional development hours and current Infant/Toddler CPR, First Aid, and OSHA certifications; maintain Arkansas early childhood teacher licensure if licensed.
Follow FCC policies and procedures, childcare licensing requirements, OSHA and infection-control guidelines, quality assurance standards, confidentiality rules, and HIPAA procedures.
Assist with nursing duties, including medication administration and medical procedures, after training.