Assistant Teacher - Harrisburg

Summary: Join our innovative in-school childcare model, in partnership with the Harrisburg School District, reflecting our mission to empower families and strengthen communities through a flexible, family-first approach. This unique program offers collaborative, real-world learning for students, adult learners, and children with the support of our industry professionals while providing high-quality childcare for Harrisburg District Staff. The Assistant Teacher will support lead teachers across classrooms, ensuring ratio maintenance, break coverage, and general classroom support.

Hours: Hours vary between 7:00 AM and 4:30 PM. Full-time and part-time positions are available during our operating months of August through May. Summer employment opportunities are available at our other locations.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Ensure EmBe brand, mission, vision, and values are reflected in all interactions.
• Demonstrate and reinforce professionalism, appropriate language, take responsibility for actions, and mentor positive behaviors to all throughout the center.
• Assist in implementing the curriculum/lesson plans developed by the lead teacher.
• Assist the lead teacher with assessing a child’s development with age-appropriate milestones.
• Assist in the creation of a stimulating learning environment.
• Participate in all aspects of the learning center classrooms such as:
  • Oversee and interact with children’s play.
  • Crafts, playing games, feeding, rocking, and diapering.
• Accurately provide essential documentation such as meal sheets, daily sheets, accident reports, medication sheets, as well as communicate parent information daily via procare and in person.
• Maintain a safe, healthy, and clean learning environment inside and outside the classroom.
• Participate in recommended professional development training opportunities and adhere to licensing standards.
• Maintain appropriate staff to child ratio, consult with the site manager when substitutes are needed, or children should be moved to other learning center classrooms.
• Ensure the safety and well-being of each child along with treating all with dignity and respect.
• Engage in parent communication such as:
  • Warmly greet parents and children upon arrival and departure to each classroom
  • Engage families in child’s well-being and daily activities.
• Remain up to date on mandatory training hours.
• All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Previous experience in childcare and/or education center preferred.

• General knowledge of children’s growth and development.
• Flexibility, reliability, and cooperative work habits.
• No substantiated history of child abuse or neglect.
• No staff member or volunteer will have a felony conviction on record within the past five years.
• No staff members name will appear on the sex offenders’ registry.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to see, speak, and hear.
• Frequent standing and walking
• Frequent use of hands and arms
• Occasional lifting of 20 to 40 lbs.
• Occasional need to climb, balance, kneel or crouch.

Work Exposure:

• Work is primarily performed in an indoor classroom environment.  Occasional outdoor exposure when weather permits.
• Noise level is moderate to loud due to equipment and children.
• Routine exposure to household sanitization and cleaning chemicals

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.