Job Title: Substitute Teacher                                                FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Reports To: Director or Assistant Director, Kidspace           Pay Range: $22 - $26 per hour
Program Type: Child Development Center

Organizational Overview

For nearly 50 years, the House of Ruth has empowered women, children, and families to rebuild their lives and heal from trauma, abuse, and houselessness. We offer comprehensive services for survivors, including service-enriched housing, nationally accredited child and family development programming, and free counseling to anyone who has experienced domestic violence.

The House of Ruth's Kidspace Child Development Center is an OSSE-approved employer. As a teacher or assistant teacher at the House of Ruth you may be eligible to receive a supplement payment through the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund.

Position Summary:

As a substitute teacher, you will be responsible for providing instruction and maintaining classroom management in the absence of the regular teacher. Your role is vital in ensuring that students continue to learn and engage with the curriculum while supporting their educational needs. Positions at Kidspace require a flexible work schedule. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned. All duties and responsibilities are completed according to House of Ruth’s policies and procedures.

• Provides short-term or long-term coverage in classrooms for teacher/assistant teacher absence and acts as an aide when both teacher and assistant are present. Assists with implementing lesson plans and activities. Assists in therapeutically managing the classroom.
• Constantly interacts with the children on their level and encourages their involvement in activities. Provides therapeutic, nurturing, developmentally appropriate activities and interactions through play and one on one time. Builds positive relationships with staff, children, and parents center-wide.
• Helps to maintain an environment that is nurturing, safe, orderly, clean, inviting, and stimulating. Validates children’s feelings, both positive and negative, at all times. Comforts upset children at all times.
• Provides positive role modeling and nurturance to parents.
• Carries out appropriate, positive, and consistent discipline using redirection and natural or logical consequences.
• Attends and participates in all required meetings and training sessions. Helps build a supportive staff and parent team. Follows all recommendations of specialists.
• Actively participates in all quality improvement efforts, including, but not limited to, becoming familiar with QI tools such as CLASS and ITERS and following the best practices described by these tools, attending assigned training, completing surveys and other assignments designed to improve program quality, participating in observations by internal observers and outside observers.

Education/Experience Required:

• High School Diploma and 2 years’ experience in a child care setting.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to adapt to different learning environments and manage diverse classroom settings.
• Patience, empathy, and a passion for helping students learn

Qualifications:

• Successfully passing the following pre-employment process is required:
  • FBI Fingerprint/Background Check
  • Alcohol and drug Test
  • Urine Screening
  • TB Test
  • Police Clearance
• Strong working knowledge of MS Office 365.
• High level of interpersonal skills to handle sensitive and confidential situations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be fully vaccinated
• Must be able to work additional hours with notice. 

Salary and Benefits

• Salary commensurate with experience and the Pay Equity Fund. The benefits package for full-time employees includes:        
  • Medical and Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life/AD&D
  • Retirement Plan
  • Tuition Reimbursement Program
  • Paid Time Off and Holidays
  • Employee Referral Program

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high.

Other physical demands include bending and stooping to assist children with dressing needs, toileting, transitioning from sitting on the floor or chair to standing during classroom activities, transferring non-ambulatory children to and from strollers, chairs, changing tables, cribs, etc.

Children may at times pull/jerk away or bolt/run from caregivers.

The ability to intervene in these situations is required. Moving or lifting of any child may be required in an emergency situation (i.e. to assist toddlers in evacuating the building or to ascend or descend stairs) and/or to prevent injury on the playground or other outdoor situations or activities.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Additional Information:

The House of Ruth is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

All duties and responsibilities are completed according to the House of Ruth’s policies and procedures.

All candidates are required to complete a teacher and writing assessment.

To be considered you must submit complete the application and submit your resume.