Day Care Teacher

**Overview of the Daycare Teacher role**

A Daycare Teacher is responsible for creating a safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment for young children. They plan and implement educational activities that promote cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development while ensuring children's well-being and safety.

**Job Title**:Daycare Teacher

**Role**:Full-time/ Onsite

**Work Days**:Monday to Saturday

**Timings: 12**:00 AM to 7:00 PM

**Location**:Ground Floor, Mercury Building Prestiage Tech Park, Marathahalli-Sarjapur Outer Ring Road, Kadubeesanahalli, Bangalore, Karnataka - 560103

**Responsibilities**:
**Classroom Management**
- Ensuring age-appropriate resources are labelled and accessible for use.
- Ensuring children records, teacher’s corner is updated with accurate information.
- Maintain a clean and safe environment, welcoming for children.
- Display boards and children’s work is always updated.
- Ensuring children bags and belongings are neatly stored away and mindfully packed everyday for return to home.
- Ensuring meal and nap arrangement is led on time.

**Learning Engagement**
- Ensuring adherence to the daily schedules and routine of the children.
- Providing seven areas of learning environment as per EYFS curriculum for children.
- Follow the activity planner of Daycare.
- Ensuring children transition to different activities and learning spaces smoothly. Adapt lessons to children's interests and learning styles.
- Adapt to children's moods and interests to keep them engaged.
- Help new children to settle swiftly following in the settling policy.
- Lead children to outdoor and indoor area play.
- Use creative ways of storytelling, play based learning, role play etc for learning
- Demonstrate kindness, patience, and active listening.
- Incorporate movement, music, and sensory activities.
- Foster confidence in children by planning hands-on and child led activities.
- Guide children with gentle expectations for correcting behaviour.
- Children coming from afterschool or children transitioning from morning to daycare should blend smoothly by helping in changing uniform, meals and transitioning them to sleep or daycare activities.
- Aid older daycare children incase of homework supervision.
- Prepare for special days and events as per the annual calendar.
- Provide attentive and nurturing care to children.

**Communication with parents**
- Provide an update of each child's day, including meals, naps, and activities daily.
- Use a parent communication app.
- Always be updated with child’s meal, care, nap, schedule requirements.
- Encourage parent Involvement in events and school initiatives.
- Be able to conduct parent-teacher meetings successfully by handling concerns professionally
- Address behavioural or developmental concerns with parents sensitively. Maintain a positive and collaborative relationship with families. Communicate regularly with parents about their child's development and progress.

**Health & safety compliance**
- Carrying out risk assessment for classrooms and keeping office informed for corrective measures.
- Ensuring children are always in ratio of adult supervision.
- Child should always be attended by an adult.
- Always be informed about allergies and illness of the child and display information as necessary for other team members who are responsible for care.
- Incidents should be reported in a timely and transparent manner.
- Keeping children in hygienic and safe conditions. Ensuring classrooms are naturally ventilated during the day and is kept odour free.
- Ensuring children are served fresh and hygienic meals.
- Children are provided with clean dairy products and bottles for feeding.
- Children diapering and toileting needs attended promptly. Ensuring facilities are cleaned and maintained by nannies.

**Additional responsibilities**
- Coordinate and participate in school events.
- Help in preparing centre displays.
- Provide substitute assistance in the absence of other team members.

**Educational Qualifications**:

- Graduation in any discipline.
- Degree in Early Childhood Education (preferred).
- First Aid and CPR Certification (optional)

**Work Experience**:

- Minimum 1-2 years of experience in a childcare care setting with young people.

**Skills**:

- Patient, nurturing and love for working with children.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Mobile and social media savvy.
- Confident in using parent app.
- Be able to work on MS-office with basic skills for developing planner and schedules.
- Creativity and ability to prepare and design display boards and decorations.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.

**Additional Information**:

- Distance to workplace: 1 to 8 km.
- Flexibility: Ability to adapt to changing schedules and needs of children.
- Willing to move between different age groups of children ranging from infants to 10 years.
- Team Player: Work collaboratively with other teachers and staff.
- Physical Stamina