PROGRAM AREA: Community Development - Family Support

Employment status: Ongoing

Hours/week: Relief (hours as needed)

Current vacancy

What We Live By:

- Our Vision: A community without barriers to health and wellbeing.
- Our Mission: We work with our community to promote and sustain health and wellbeing for all.
- Our Values: Compassion, Social Justice, Courage, Integrity, Adaptability.

Guelph Community Health Centre prioritizes people who face barriers to health and accessing services, and people who identify as:

- Homeless or at risk of homelessness
- Living on low income
- Newcomers to Canada with language barriers
- Having moderate to severe mental health and/or addiction issues
- Having moderate to severe disabilities
- Indigenous First Nations, Inuit and Métis
- Black, mixed race and racialized populations
- Experiencing intersectional oppression
- 2SLGBTQIA+
- Vulnerable children and their families experiencing conflict, isolation or attachment struggles

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

EarlyON Child and Family Centres provide children and parents/caregivers opportunities to participate in high quality play and inquiry-based programs, led and facilitated by Registered Early Childhood Educators. Our EarlyON Centreoffers a protected and welcoming environment.

Report toEarlyONSupervisor. Registered Early Childhood Educator works as a member of theEarlyONChild & Family Centreteam to plan, implement and provide appropriate information, services and programmes for parents, caregivers and children 0-6 years attendingEarlyONChild & Family Centres.

PRINCIPAL JOB DUTIES

- Maintain a safe,



positive enriching environment for children that reflects the pedagogy of How Does Learning Happen? Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years.
- Develop, plan, and provide appropriate information, services and programs that support families in meaningful ways.
- Respect and support the important role of parents and caring adults as the child’s first teacher and play partner.
- Welcome, support and interact with all program participants integrating bias-free strategies in recognition of the rich diversity of families.
- Communicate effectively with families of all backgrounds and abilities using inclusive language and interactions.
- Create a comfortable and welcoming atmosphere that reflects trust and understanding in relationships amongst staff and program participants.
- Ability to apply knowledge of child development inprogramplanning andsharing informationwith parents and caregivers.
- Provide quality, developmentally appropriate, play-based emergent learning opportunities that are shaped by the participating family’s knowledge, interests, and experiences.
- Organize and assess play areas, equipment and materials to create an engaging, welcoming, inclusive environment that encourages parents and caregivers to connect with each other and their children.
- Document children and family experiences to serve as a basis for meaning making,



relationship building and program planning.
- Assist with program set-up, and clean-up following agency sanitary practices.
- Model positive relationships with children and adults.
- Provide a solution-focused approach when working through challenges.
- Guide children’s learning and development through positive adult-child interactions.
- Communicate with parents as needed about issues relevant to their child ( ie child development, sleeping/eating, information about resources, etc.)
- Provide individual support to parents/caregivers in the form of referrals, linkages with other professionals, etc.
- Facilitate one-on-one consultation with families that need further support and services.
- Assist in the creation and distribution of communication materials for the programmes as well as promoting awareness of children’s services.
- Understand community resources in order to facilitate access to services for program participants.
- Work collaboratively with community partners to provide family support services and promote community programs.
- Maintain a positive rapport with parents, co-workers, students, volunteers, and other professionals.
- Contribute to outreach initiatives to attract new families to the Centre.
- Facilitate workshops for program participants as required.
- Engage in reflective practice with team members.
- Attend professional learning opportunities that reflect current early learning and care research and trends.
- Participate in on-going reflective evaluation of program and service delivery.
- Mentor, supervise and evaluate student teachers and volunteers.
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📌 Registered Early Childhood Educator (Guelph)
🏢 GCHC
📍 Guelph