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

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Valid IVP Fingerprint Clearance Card issued by the Arizona Department of Public Safety (required before first day — no exceptions)
• TB test or screening completed within the past 12 months
• Current CPR and First Aid certification (infant/child, required prior to start)
• Completed health statement signed by a licensed healthcare provider
• No disqualifying background history under Arizona Revised Statutes

Nice to Have

• Early Childhood Education coursework or CDA credential
• Experience working with infants and toddlers
• Experience with overnight or non-traditional hour childcare
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus

Benefits