Job Type: Permanent

Location: City of Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton

Hours: 25 – 40 hours per week

Anticipated Start Date: June 1, 2023

Come Work With Compass ELC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmhfhVKNuGs

About Us:

For more than forty years, our organization has been growing and evolving. Over those years we’ve expanded our vision of early learning and child care, enhanced our learning environments to truly honour our belief in children as competent and full of wonder, worked to develop an organizational culture that is strength-based and creates opportunities for growth and development for all of us, deepened our understanding of the principles of organizational democracy, provided care for thousands of children and their families, and experienced the growth of our organization from the three original to over 500 people working together on behalf of children and families.

About the role:

At Compass ELC you will work as an Educator alongside some of the most passionate, caring, and dedicated educators in the industry. You will spend your time engaging, connecting, and learning alongside children, families, community partners, and co-workers. You are passionate about early learning and care, emergent curriculum, and life-long learning. You are energetic, resourceful, and creative in your pursuits of creating learning opportunities, building connections, and engaging with children and families.

This role will have you working as a float educator in multiple programs in the City of Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton area. Your hours will be based on the needs and funding of the program at a guaranteed minimum of 25 hours per week to a cap of 40 hours per week. You will have a home base program where you will work in the event you are not needed at any other programs.

CKL and Haliburton Full-Day Programs:

· Lindsay Program at St. Dominic's (Full Day)

· Victoria Graduate Program at I.E. Weldon (Lindsay, Full Day)

· Rolling Hills and Grandview Program (Bethany, Full Day, Before and After School)

· Minden and Archie Stouffer Program (Full Day, Before and After School)

CKL and Haliburton School Age Programs (School age programs are eligible for full-time hours on non-instructional school days):

· Jack Callaghan (Before and After School)

· Leslie Frost (Before and After School)

· Parkview (Before and After School)

· Woodville (Before and After School)

· Fenelon Township (Cameron, Before and After School)

Some accountabilities associated with the role include:

- Has the flexibility to work within a fluctuating schedule.
- Plan, lead, and guide interest-based experiences surrounding children's interests throughout the day.
- Observing and documenting children's learning.
- Building relationships with families and including them in the learning process.
- Working as part of a team with Co-workers, Families, Community Partners, and Children.
- Ensuring the safety of staff and children by learning and acknowledging all children's diverse needs, and backgrounds, and creating equitable opportunities for all children to engage.
- Demonstrating respect for spaces by ensuring the safety and cleanliness of all equipment, furniture, and materials.

Skills and Qualifications:

- Is familiar with the Child Care Early Years Act, and licensing standards in a childcare program.
- Has experience working/volunteering with children and youth.
- Possesses the training and documents required by the Ministry of Education, Compass Early Learning and Care, and the Child Care Early Years Act to work in a childcare setting:
- Clear Police Vulnerable Sector Check
- Standard First Aid and CPR Level C
- Updated immunization records (Or a signed and notarized refusal of affidavit or medical exemption).
- Registered with the College of Early Childhood Educators, or has a post-secondary degree in a similar field (i.e. Child and Youth Care, Recreation and Leisure, Bachelor of Education, etc.)

How to Apply:

Please send your resume and cover letter to careers@compasselc.com or you can apply via our job board: https://compasselccareers.applytojobs.ca/.

To address issues of systemic inequity within our communities, we strongly encourage individuals from communities and groups that have historically been disadvantaged and/or marginalized, including First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, Indigenous Peoples of Canada, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, individuals who identify as women and/or gender diverse, 2SLGBTQ+ persons, and persons with lived or living experience of homelessness to apply.

In keeping with Compass Early Learning & Care's commitment to providing service in a manner that is accessible to all, reasonable accommodations will be provided for applicants upon request. We are committed to reducing barriers to employment and we encourage you to bring your true or whole self and way of being to the interview process. We welcome differences and we are happy to make meetings accessible based on your needs. Please contact Human Resources at 705-749-3488 ext. 217, hrteam@compasselc.com, or careers@compasselc.com.

Additional Information

*Benefits:

· Competitive wages (Living wage employer) (Provincial Wage Enhancements) (Shift Premiums)

· Mileage for travel more than 25 km from your home base program

· Benefits – health, 80% dental, paramedical $1000.00 bundled, EFAP (Life Works)

· Health Savings Account -HSA- $150.00 per year

· Annual ECE Dues

· Professional Development Opportunities (internal and External) (12 hours per year compensated in time in lieu if completed outside work hours)

· Annual RRSP contribution - $1000

· First Aid and CPR Training paid for all permanent employees that have not let their certification expire

· Safe Food Handlers Training paid for those that require it for their role

· Reduced Child Care Expenses (20% discount)

· Paid Time Off - starting at 4% vacation accrued annually on hours worked/4% personal sick time accrued annually on hours worked

· Unpaid Time - an option to purchase up to 4 weeks unpaid time that is prorated off of 24 pays

· Family-focused policies

· Networks and Committees

· Apprenticeship Sponsorship and some financial contributions up to $2000.00

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $20.34-$22.34 per hour

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