Supply Educator - All CELC Programs

Compass Early Learning and Care Career Opportunity

Job Type: Supply Contract

Location: All Compass ELC School Age and Center-Based Programs.
CELC Programs are located within the following Regions and Cities in Ontario:

• City and County of Peterborough - Peterborough, Ennismore, Millbrook, Apsley, Keene, Douro, Warsaw
• Durham and Clarington Region - Orono, Hampton, Courtice, Bowmanville
• City of Kawartha Lakes - Bethany, Lindsay, Woodville, Fenelon
• Northumberland - Cobourg, Campbellford
• Haliburton - Minden
  

Hours: 0 to 40 hours per week. Hours are based on program need and availability. 

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

Job Posting Declarations: 

Compass Early Learning and Care does not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make hiring decisions. We value authentic applications that accurately reflect each candidate's skills, experience, and qualifications. Applicants are responsible for ensuring all information submitted is truthful and represents their own work and experience.

This posting is for ongoing career opportunities and is posted based on our current needs and expansion plans. 

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 700 people working together on behalf of children and families.

About the role:

At Compass ELC, you will work as a Supply 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 efforts to create learning opportunities, build connections, and engage with children and families.
As a supply educator, you will use our registry system, Smart Find Express, to pick up shifts at any of our 42 Licensed Child Care Programs. Supply Educators are required to work a minimum of 2 shifts per month to stay active. Hours will be based on the needs and funding of the program. Our program hours are between 6:30 am to 6 pm, Monday to Friday. 

Some accountabilities associated with the role include:

• Has the flexibility to work within a fluctuating schedule.
• Plan, lead, and guide interest-based experiences throughout the day surrounding children's interests.
• 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, 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.
• Engaging in play with children.
• Actively being engaged in the supervision of children.

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 our HR team via our Bamboo Careers Page: https://compasselc.bamboohr.com/careers.

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 Relations at [email protected].