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Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Care for children.
- Organize and participate in recreational activities, such as games.
- Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
- Place or hoist children into baths or pools.
- Instruct children in health and personal habits such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
- Assist in preparing food for children and serve meals and refreshments to children and regulate rest periods.
- Read to children, and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
- Wheel handicapped children to classes or other areas of facility, secure in equipment, such as chairs and slings.
- Dress children and change diapers.
- Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
- Observe and monitor children’s play activities.
- Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
- Help children with homework and school work.
- Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents’ or guardians’ attention.
- Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
- Perform housekeeping duties such as laundry, cleaning, dishwashing, and changing of linens.
- Sanitize toys and play equipment.
- Support children’s emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be 18 Years of Age or Older and authorized to work in the USA
- High School Diploma/GED/or Commonwealth Child Care Credential as described in 922 KAR 2:250
- Completion of (a) Six (6) hours of cabinet-approved orientation within the first three months of employment.
- No record of child abuse/neglect and the successful completion of a background check.
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least 1 year of experience with children in a supervisory role.
- First Aid/CPR Certified
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