Long Term Substitute Child Care Educator

FRAMINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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Long Term Substitute: Child Care Educator
Staff Child Day Care Center at Framingham High School

Starting November 27 2026

• Current and valid Massachusetts Office of Early Education and Care (EEC) license for a childcare provider is preferred.

• Infant/Pediatric CPR and First Aid Certification preferred.

• Educational Requirement:A Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university inEarly Education or a related field preferred.

• Professional Experience: Prior experience working within an early childhood environment required; specialized experience with infants and toddlers is highly preferred.

• Language Proficiency:Bilingual proficiency in Spanish and/or Portuguese is preferred.

1. Early Childhood Pedagogy: Knowledge of developmentally appropriate early childhood play activities and milestones.
2. Text & Directive Comprehension: Ability to read interpret and internalize operational documents such as safety rules memos and procedure manuals.
3. Effective Communication: Proficiency in expressing ideas clearly and concisely in both written and oral forms with staff leadership and families.
4. Collaborative Teamwork: Strong interpersonal skills to work seamlessly as an active member of a classroom instructional team.
5. Relationship Building: Ability to establish and maintain highly effective and empathetic working connections with students parents staff and the community.
6. Solution-Focused Mindset: Proactive and solution-oriented approach to identifying and answering childrens physical and developmental needs.
7. Cultural Proficiency: Demonstrated cultural proficiency and competence in working with children of diverse backgrounds and varying needs in an equitable and inclusive manner.
8. Policy Compliance: Ability to execute daily care with complete awareness of district requirements and School Committee policies.
9. Social-Emotional Development: Skill in establishing supportive stable boundaries with young children without encouraging counterproductive emotional dependency.
10. Professionalism & Composure: Maintain regular predictable and punctual attendance; maintain professional composure patient focus and modeling behaviors when faced with unpredictable or high-stress early childhood classroom situations.

• Assists children with daily physical routines including putting on and taking off outerwear moving safely from room to room and navigating classroom spaces.

• Delivers necessary physical care throughout the workday including the regular feeding changing and toileting of children based on individual developmental and hygiene needs.

• Supports and guides students with special needs affirming their unique abilities while maximizing their access to inclusionary classroom environments.

• Helps lift or safely position young children to provide baseline early childhood services.

• Facilitates and coordinates structured developmentally appropriate play activities and early learning milestones in the daycare room under teacher direction.

• Integrates foundational social-emotional frameworks into play routines to foster a safe positive and trauma-informed room culture.

• Assists the certified teacher with general daily classroom duties materials preparation and activity setups to keep the space physically and academically accessible.

• Establishes clear encouraging and supportive relationships with children that value their identity and promote dignity across all peer connections.

• Ensures the absolute safety continuous visibility and physical protection of children across all environments.

• Maintains continuous visual and auditory surveillance of students during indoor instruction outdoor recess blocks fire drills and special activities.

• Documents and monitors daily student milestones safety changes or incident reports in strict compliance with state regulations and district policies.

• Follows precise medical health sanitization and clean-space safety guidelines to prevent environmental hazards or pathogen exposures.

• Coordinates closely with the classroom teacher program coordinator and early childhood team members to streamline student care plans.

• Provides helpful clear and prompt observations regarding student progress or daily updates to parents and guardians during student drop-off/pick-up transitions.

• Collaborates with building administration to implement center-wide policies that enrich early childhood education systems.

1. Mobility Navigation & Travel: Must frequently move about and traverse throughout the classroom early childhood center playgrounds and general school building grounds for instructional delivery emergency drills and student supervision.
2. Stationary Tasks: Required to occasionally sit or remain stationary for administrative logs feeding routines or floor-based learning activities.
3. Sensory Requirements: Must be able to see and hear continuously to ensure young student safety intercept behavioral risks immediately and monitor active school operations.
4. Communication: Must communicate effectively clearly and responsively with children parents and colleagues in person via email or over the phone.
5. Manual Dexterity & Technology: Frequent use of hands to finger handle or feel objects and tools. Must operate a computer for child logs handle delicate childcare supplies and use safety tools continuously.
6. General Physical Strength: Regular capacity to sit stand walk kneel crouch stoop squat bend or twist at the neck and trunk. Expected to lift and carry classroom supplies up to 20 lbs routinely; occasionally required to lift transfer or position young children or assist with wheelchair mobility as required by student needs.
7. Working Environment: Functions within a dynamic high-activity early childhood school environment with a moderate to high noise level during play blocks and transitions. Day includes mandatory outdoor supervision during recess or scheduled activities.
8. Exposure Risks: May be regularly exposed to bodily fluids illness or pathogens typical of early childhood environments.
9. Behavioral De-escalation & Resilience: Capacity to remain calm professional and patient when exposed to tantrums volatile behaviors or high-stakes emotional situations; ability to use positive redirection and early de-escalation techniques under pressure.

• Coordinator of the Child Care Center(and/or designee).
• The performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with the FraminghamSchool Commitee Contract.

• This position is classified as Exempt (Professional).

• Covered underFraminghamSchool CommiteeContract.

• The District reserves the right to transfer personnel as needed.

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