Summer Camp Counselor - Alma

• Competitive Pay 
• Company Discounts and Incentives
• Company Paid Training and Professional Development
• Cutting Edge Classroom Structure and Curriculum

Our ideal candidate is someone who is excited to learn and is passionate about helping children in a fun, engaging, and collaborative manner.

• →Ensures a positive emotional climate
• →Engages children through:
  • →Curriculum implementation
  • →Playground activities
  • →Direct childcare needs (feeding, diapering, and changing clothing, etc.)
• →Ensures learning environments are established and maintained to motivate and enable children to achieve developmental milestones appropriate for their age.
• →Ensures that a clean, safe, healthy, and sanitary learning environment is maintained and that children are kept clean, clothing is changed when necessary, and toys and other materials are disinfected each day
• →Responds intentionally to challenging behavior by helping children de-escalate and prompting appropriate skills
• →Ensures treatment plans developed are implemented
• →Ensures each child's growth and development by utilizing intervention strategies established by healthcare professionals
• →Toilet training and diaper changing will be required
• →Ensures that required reports are updated, completed, and turned in on time
• →Ensures the completion of classroom billing via deTASO.
• →Maintains classroom supplies
• →Ensures that visual supervision of the children is maintained at all times
• →Speaks in a well-modulated, pleasant, and caring voice to children, parents, and staff
• →Represents the program to parents, visitors, and the public in a positive way
• →Immediately reports any information regarding health and safety concerns to the Director, Assistant Director, or Nurse
• →Completes required training events
• →Is familiar with the company’s policies, procedures, and guidelines, as well as those requirements set forth by regulatory agencies, including EIDT, AR Child Care Licensing, and the AR Health Department

• Willingness to work with developmentally at risk children
• Ability to collaborate effectively with a team
• Ability to engage in a manner that is fun, child-centered, mindful, and authentic
• Patience, positivity, & resilience
• Ability to react to direction in real-time
• Ability to adapt approach based on a child's developmental needs
• Ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholder types (counselors, therapists, administration, parents, etc.)
• Willingness to ask questions and seek guidance as needed
• Working knowledge of computer technology

• High School Diploma / GED
• Available Monday - Friday
• One year of experience working with children in a professional setting (preferred)
• Pass a criminal background check and drug screen

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to walk, sit, use hands and fingers to handle, lift, feel, and reach. The employee is frequently required to stand and stoop, twist, bend, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include near and distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee is required to maintain regular and punctual attendance. The employee is required to complete tasks in a timely manner.

We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination/harassment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 

Compensation: Starts at $11.50 per hour

Temporary

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