Afterschool Care Worker

RESPONSIBLE ADULT WORKER

Job Summary:
The Responsible Adult assists in providing age-appropriate activities for children in the childcare setting.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. General
a. Assists in the planning of developmentally appropriate activities and experiences for the children.
b. Oversees and/or prepares nutritious snacks and/or lunch breaks.
c. Maintain open and positive communication with parents.
d. Follow all licensing and Summit Community Services Society policies.
e. Maintain confidentiality guidelines.
f. Contributes to ensuring all programs are innovated, positive and fun.
g. Promotes health and hygiene, to prevent the spread of illness, by following best practices for hand washing, food handling and by implementing cleaning routines including the sanitization of toys, kitchen and other surfaces.
h. Assist the Daycare manager with maintenance of the facility.
i. Ongoing professional development. 
j. Inform manager of any issues or problems that may arise with the children.

Education, Training, and Experience:
• Responsible Adult Certificate
• Valid Food Safe Certificate
• Criminal Record Check for Working with Vulnerable Adults and Children. 

Job Skills and Abilities:
• Excellent oral, written, facilitation, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Commitment to Summit Community Services Society’s mission, vision, and values. 
• Service Oriented: able to identify and create opportunities to enhance everyone’s experience and create a vision plan for their daycare.
• Relationship building and collaboration, building positive interactions, creating an open communication environment.
• Shares best practices and resources with colleagues.
• Conviction in the capacity of people to grow and change.
• Sensitive to cultural differences in the client population.