Teachers Infant Toddler

Who We Are

Pacific Clinics is California's largest community-based nonprofit provider of behavioral and mental health services and supports. Our team of more than 2,000 employees speak 22 languages and are dedicated to offering hope and unlocking the full potential of individuals and families through culturally responsive, trauma-informed, research-based services for individuals and families from birth to older adults. 

Pacific Clinics Head Start and Early Head Start programs provide free early education and childcare for children from birth to age five and prenatal and parenting support for eligible families.

Who We Serve 

Pacific Clinics serves children, transitional age youth, families, adults, and older adults. We offer a full range of mental and behavioral health services, foster care and social services, housing, continuing adult education and early childhood education programs to Medi-Cal eligible individuals and families throughout Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Orange, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Solano, Stanislaus, Stockton, Tulare and Ventura Counties.

Pacific Clinics Head Start and Early Head Start programs provides services in center-based, home base and family child care provider homes, regardless of income. We teach children how to share emotions in a healthy way.

What We Offer

• The initial compensation for this position ranges from $24.83 - $26.52 per hour.
• Actual offers will be determined by the candidate’s creditable years of experience in conjunction with internal equity considerations and based on the organization’s current compensation practices.
• We Offer Medical, Dental & Vision benefits, retirement options, Flex Spending, EAP, and more!
• Employee engagement and advocacy opportunities to advance our justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion agenda across our Agency and throughout the communities we serve
• Benefits eligibility starts on Day 1!

POSITION SUMMARY:

This position serves as a Teacher and caregiver in a classroom of Early Head Start infants and toddlers by planning, implementing, and supervising all center-based activities. This position may work with infants and toddlers with developmental delays.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:

• Develops an individual plan for each child to include goal setting based on identified needs and prescriptions for objectives and activities to meet established goals (outcomes).
• Works as a team member with the other education staff, parents and Parent Committee members to develop curriculum that is meaningful and meets the individual and program needs.
• Responsible for the weekly preparation of daily lesson plans, which includes objectives to be posted for parents, volunteers and visitors in the classroom.
• Schedules home visits and parent-teacher conferences with families as required and on an as-needed basis and documents these events.
• Prepares and maintains a safe, healthy learning environment for children that is positive, developmentally appropriate and experientially-based.
• Plans and provides developmentally appropriate activities and experiences that advance all areas of children’s development (social, emotional, cognitive and physical) in a manner appropriate to age and stage of development.
• Assists in development and implementation of a developmentally appropriate curriculum that focuses on routines and individual child interests and development.
• Provides a safe, healthy and well-managed environment so that children will have comfortable learning and growing experiences. Sets up the physical environment to meet the changing needs of infants and toddlers.
• Serves on IFSP meetings.
• Participates in on-going training and development specific to working with infants and toddlers and their families, including infant/toddler development, communication and safety issues such as reducing the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.  
• Conducts developmental screening of infants and toddlers’ motor, language, social, cognitive, perceptual and emotional levels.
• Ensure an appropriate written Transition Plan for all children, six months before their third birthday; provide parents with training and information.  Establish communication to facilitate and coordinate the transition.
• Involves parents in the educational activities of the program: 
o to emphasize their role as the principal influence on the child's education and development; and
o to assist parents to increase their knowledge, understanding, skills and experience in basic child development.