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Join The Lund Team: support and empower Vermont families!
Early Childhood Individual Assistant
For over 132 years, Lund has been strengthening families and ensuring a safe, secure, and loving environment for Vermont children. Serving over 5,000 individuals annually, Lund's mission is to help children thrive by breaking cycles of poverty, addiction, and abuse. As an Early Childhood Individual Assistant, you'll provide trauma-informed care and support to our classroom, ensuring children's safety and developmental needs are met. Collaborate with a dedicated team, maintain positive relationships with community organizations, and communicate effectively with parents. With a starting rate of $22/hour, this grant-funded position offers professional growth, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive, inclusive workplace. Join us to make a meaningful impact on Vermont families.
Lund is a qualified employer for Public Student Loan Forgiveness.
About the Position:
Care and Curriculum
- Provide unbiased, trauma-informed care of children according to developmental needs.
- Ensure the safety, well-being, and continuous supervision of children at all times.
- Alert the Childcare Coordinator with developmental concerns.
- Work as part of a team to provide individualized support to a child at times, as well as helping run the classroom.
- Create and maintain a clean, safe, and healthy environment for children.
Communication and Collaboration
- Maintain good working relationships with community organizations (VNA, SSTA, etc.)
- Consult with community partners as needed.
- Report suspected child abuse or neglect to DCF in accordance with regulations.
- Maintain confidentiality of children and families.
- Communicate and reiterate Lund's policies related to parents when necessary.
- Provide helpful information and resources to parents as needed.
- Model appropriate interactions with children for parents
- Maintain professional behavior consistently.
- Report any concerns regarding staff, children, or families to the Childcare Coordinator and aid in the resolution as appropriate.
- Complete daily paperwork for classrooms and programs including, but not limited to, Bright Wheel documentation, nutrition, and meal counts in an objective, unbiased, and timely manner.
- Prepare for and attend necessary meetings, trainings, and supervision, some of which may require attendance at irregular hours, including
- Other Duties as Assigned
- Starting rate of $22/hour
- This IA position is to help support our older toddler classroom. The IA would work with the other two teachers to support the classroom. Collaboratively, these three teachers (IA and two teachers) work to support the needs of children in the classroom. This is a grant funded position.
What We Look For:- A CDA or associate's degree in early childhood (or related field); one year of experience working with young children is preferred.
- A candidate who is passionate, inspired, and committed to working with a dedicated group of professionals.
- Must be able to demonstrate each of the following:
- Ability to perform the essential job functions of the position either with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Ability to consistently demonstrate Lund's values of collaboration, compassion, empathy, integrity, and respect.
- Ability to understand and comply with operational standards, safety requirements, and employee policies.
- Ability to actively support diversity, equity, and cultural competency efforts within stated job responsibilities and work effectively across diverse cultures.
- Regular attendance is necessary and essential to meeting the expectations of the job.
- Ability to demonstrate excellent judgement and operate with the utmost confidentiality.
- Ability to maintain positive working relationships with co-workers, families, and other departments.
- Ability to communicate effectively and respectfully both orally and in writing.
- Proficiency in the use of applicable hardware and software as required.
- Ability to maintain a valid VT Driver's License and access to reliable transportation is required; occasional statewide travel may be required.
- Upon conditional offer of employment, must be able to successfully pass a background investigation.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks effectively in a busy environment with frequent interruptions.
- Ability to deescalate and resolve sensitive situations respectfully
Why Join Our Team at Lund:- We honor and celebrate the distinctive strengths and talents of our clients and staff.
- Our work encompasses collaboration with a strong team of professionals and a strengths-based approach to providing services to families.
- Lund's adoption program provides life-long services to families brought together through adoption.
- Lund's residential and community treatment programs are distinctive as our work focuses on both treatment and parenting.
- Lund's educators believe in laughter, the importance of fun, community-oriented activities, and non-stop learning.
- Professional growth and ongoing training opportunities are available; Lund offers weekly supervision.
- Lund values employee well-being and strives to be a welcoming and inclusive workplace; staff are encouraged to engage in staff led initiatives for wellness, employee recognition, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Lund is a family-centered organization filled with supportive colleagues and offers work-life balance; some positions offer opportunities for hybrid schedules or schedule flexibility.
- Lund offers competitive pay and paid training.
- Lund offers a comprehensive and very generous benefit package including health, dental, life, disability, and retirement.
- Employees earn extensive time off accrual in addition to 13 paid holidays, and annual wellness reimbursement.
- Lund does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, genetic information, ancestry, place of birth, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. EEO/AA