ECS Associate Teacher

Oklahoma City, OK
United States

The ECS Associate Teacher provides daily care to children in HS/EHS classroom using appropriate child guidance techniques and building responsive relationships with classroom teachers, staff, children and families. Assist supervisor in maintaining a safe, clean, and healthy work environment.

All employees and volunteers are expected to be sensitive to our clients’ cultural and socioeconomic characteristics, reflect Sunbeam Family Services’ core values and to perform as Sunbeam’s standards of excellence at all times.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

The ECS Associate Teacher will work collaboratively with the Lead Teacher/Teacher’s Aide to ensure the successful operation of the classroom by:
• Promoting, encouraging and displaying examples of leadership for the agency in accordance with the agency mission driven, employee first culture.
• Demonstrate capacity for providing developmentally appropriate practice, for exemplifying the
values expected within the program, and for promoting the mission of the organization.
• Assist supervisor in maintaining a safe, clean, and healthy work environment.
• Ensure compliance with Head Start Performance Standards, federal and state regulation, and Community Care Licensing requirements.
• On-going professional development through education, role modeling, mentoring, and providing training and resources.
• Ensure implementation of HS/EHS written curriculum plan.
• Maintain record keeping and reporting systems to ensure accurate information, with timely completion and follow-up.
• Work in a team setting with all staff to determine individual needs of children including children with disabilities or special needs.

OTHER DUTIES
• Provide support for other duties needed in keeping with our mission, vision and values.

WORKING CONDITIONS
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to position self to interact with others, including small children, and communicate, converse with, convey and exchange information, and are constantly moving to assist small children, and move about inside a classroom, work area and outdoor instruction areas to assist in room activities and other duties. Must be able to operate, prepare, remove, replace, and detect objects inside the classroom or other areas to ensure the safety and proper application of equipment, and other physical items in the work environment. Must be able to position self to tend to small children at play, at rest and during instruction and/or interactive time. A person in this position frequently must be able to move, transport, and position children and items of up to 25 pounds, and occasionally 50 pounds. Specific abilities required by this job also include the ability to detect, determine, discern, perceive, identify, observe, inspect, and assess situations in the classroom. Must be able to provide care, instructions, and observations according to the requirements of the program.

Work Environment
The employee will work in an environment that may be in close quarters with other staff and small children. The noise level in the work environment varies from moderate to loud; frequent chaotic situations will occur, characteristic to working with children ages 0 – 5 years. Employee must expect exposure to strong odors such as soiled diapers and clothes, and poor hygiene. May come into contact with childhood diseases and blood on occasion.

Vaccination
This position is subject to Sunbeam's Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. All Sunbeam employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or have an approved exemption. Exemptions to the vaccine requirement will be considered for individuals with medical condition(s) that prevent them from being vaccinated and for individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs that prohibit them from being vaccinated, consistent with applicable federal and state law. Proof of Vaccination, as defined by Sunbeam policy, or an approved exemption is required for any employment effective on or after December 31, 2021.

OTHER
The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. The qualifications, physical demands, and work environment described herein are representative of those an employee will encounter and must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this position. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel or candidate and may be subject to change at any time. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Sunbeam Family Services is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are committed to fair and equal in all its employment practices for persons without regard to race, ethnicity, color, creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, disability or degree thereof, national origin, domestic/marital status, political affiliation or opinion, veteran status, HIV status, AIDS status, genetic information, and any characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.