Childcare Workers

What You'll Do

• Maintain a safe play environment.
• Observe and monitor children's play activities.
• Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
• Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
• Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for people with disabilities.
• Sanitize toys and play equipment.
• Dress children and change diapers.
• Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
• Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
• Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
• Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
• Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
• Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
• Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
• Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
• Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
• Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
• Regulate children's rest periods.
• Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
• Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
• Help children with homework and school work.
• Provide care for children with physical, developmental, or mental health disabilities.
• Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
• Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.

Requirements

Job Requirements for Kandy Kane Learning Center

• Must be at least 18 years old
• High school diploma or GED required
• Experience working with children preferred
• Must be able to pass a background check and fingerprinting requirements
• Must meet all Georgia Bright from the Start and DECAL requirements
• CPR and First Aid certification required (or willing to obtain)
• Must be dependable, punctual, and able to maintain consistent attendance
• Ability to lift, carry, and actively supervise children throughout the day
• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced childcare environment
• Ability to communicate professionally with parents, children, and coworkers
• Must be a team player with a positive attitude
• Willingness to follow classroom schedules, licensing rules, and center policies
• Must maintain a clean, safe, and organized classroom environment
• Ability to multitask and adapt to changing daily needs
• Must have a genuine love for children and a heart for early childhood education
• Willingness to participate in ongoing training and professional development
• Must be able to actively engage with children during play, learning, meals, and outdoor activities
• Cell phone use is limited during working hours to ensure active supervision and engagement with children