Daycare Teacher

Job 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: Ability to actively engage with children throughout the day. - Maintain high discipline for attendance and timeliness. Pay: ₹8,086.00 - ₹20,586.73 per month Schedule: - Day shift - Evening shift Work Location: In person Application Deadline: 07/03/2025 Expected Start Date: 01/03/2025