Daycare Teacher

We are looking for a caring, playful, and reliable Infant Daycare Teacher to join our small home daycare team. This role is perfect for someone who loves nurturing babies, creating meaningful early learning experiences, and maintaining a warm, family-style environment.

Responsibilities:

• Provide attentive, loving care for infants, including feeding, diapering, soothing, and engaging in age-appropriate play.
• Cooking and serving breakfast, lunch and snack time
• Help with potty training and helping to clean any accidents.
• Leading and participating in story time, ABC time, creating and setting up arts and crafts, education on colors, shapes, and numbers.
• Create a safe, clean, and cozy environment that supports bonding, sensory exploration, tummy time, and early developmental milestones.
• Maintain consistent routines for feeding, naps, and play that follow each child’s individual needs and parent preferences.
• Interact with infants in a playful and nurturing way—singing songs, reading books, encouraging early communication, and supporting motor development.
• Ensure constant supervision and prioritize safety during all daily activities.
• Communicate with parents daily about their child’s routines, milestones, moods, and any concerns.
• Keep detailed notes on infant bottles, diapers, naps, and developmental progress.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness, including sanitizing toys, surfaces, cribs, and feeding areas throughout the day.
• Support daily housekeeping tasks such as washing bottles, tidying play spaces, vacuuming, mopping, changing beds, laundering infant linens, and keeping the environment organized.
• Follow all home daycare policies, state licensing rules, and health/safety guidelines.

Qualifications:

• Experience caring for infants in a daycare, nanny, or home-based childcare setting.
• Warm, gentle, and patient caregiving approach.
• Comfortable with cleaning duties and maintaining a sanitary environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build trusting relationships with families.
• CPR/First Aid certification (or willingness to obtain).
• Mandated reporter training.
• TB test.
• Knowledge of safe sleep practices and infant development is a strong plus.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $17.00 - $18.00 per hour

Expected hours: 27 – 30 per week

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Application Question(s):

• Will you have a problem with criminal background clearance?

Experience:

• Infant care: 1 year (Preferred)
• Childcare: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Childcare Certification (Preferred)

Work Location: In person