Job Description

Enhanced RECE educator, 27 hours Before and After Care in Halton Region

Program Location:

(Alton Village, Brant Hills, Brookdale, CH Norton and JW Boich locations)

Salary:

$24.39 - $27.86

Start Date:

June 2025

Vacancies:

1

Hours:

June - 27 hours. July and August - 37.5 hours (camp). September to December - 27 hours.



Hello, Future Educator!


At Today's Family, we believe in the role, value and impact of strong people partnerships in achieving what's best for children and families. Together, we can ensure that every child experiences the joy of learning through play.


It's why we exist.


We're seeking the very best people to help us grow, care and innovate within the very best, high-quality, and unique programs and opportunities for children.


Who Are We?


Today's Family is a large and growing not-for-profit, charitable organization serving over 6,000 children and families in over 86 neighbourhoods across Hamilton, Halton, Haldimand and Norfolk, and Oxford County. We are on a mission. By working together to enrich today's families, we want what's best for children. It's our vision that every child experience the joy of learning through play. We achieve this by holding our core values close to us, allowing them to guide us into the future we embrace - a future for every child. We value Caring, Collaboration, Accountability, Innovation, and Inclusion.


Our programs are high-quality and continuously emerging to meet and respond to the strengths and needs of our growing communities. We are a multi-site, multi-service organization, offering a wide-variety of licensed programs and services in many neighbourhoods, including:


Early Learning and Child Care


Licensed Home Child Care


Before and After School Care


Day Camps


EarlyON Child and Family Centres


Youth Partnership Opportunities


Family and Community Engagement


At Today's Family, we are investing in the growth of a feeling. The growth of the "buzz" you hear when entering into one of our program spaces or when catching us in the community. We are growing off the charts and are seeking passionate Early Childhood Educators to help us continue to grow the feeling of care across our many programs.


We know that the very best programs require the very best people - and that's YOU!


Are you?:


Interested in supporting Before and After School Programs where children may require enhanced support?


Demonstrate skills learned through previous experiences working with children with special rights?


Looking for new, innovative ways to play and share your skills and talents within an inclusive environment?


Interested in sharing the story of our impact with children, families, and the community through the sharing of documentation, learning stories, and "Mission Moments"?


Someone who values the creativity that exists within exploration of the arts, community engagement, and outdoor education?


Eager to share your big ideas on the ways of which we can make a positive impact in the healthy development of children and families?


If yes, we welcome you to consider learning more about a career with Today's Family:


Like you, we believe in the importance of play in spaces that are welcoming, inviting, and full of opportunity for endless WANDER and limitless WONDER for children to explore and grow within the world around them.


We are seeking an Enhanced Support RECE to:


Care for children in our Halton programs and neighbourhoods


Work collaboratively with Program Supervisors and Educators to support children with special rights within Today's Family Halton Before and After School Programs.


Be accountable to the children and families in our care, ensuring the constant safety and well-being is our top priority


Adhere to Today's Family's policies and procedures and the College of ECEs Code of Ethics and Professional Practices to ensure the highest quality of interactions, relationships, and engagement with children and families


Work collaboratively with children as our partners to co-create experiences to investigate, explore, and amplify their interests.


Offer dynamic, diverse, and unique programming that supports the well-being, engagement, and expression of children


Consider and explore a wide variety of approaches to early learning, including Reggio-Emilia Approach, Play-based and Project-based Learning, Outdoor Education, Arts-based Learning, HIGH Five Principles of Healthy Child Development, Positive Youth Development, among other evidence-based approaches and practices


Facilitate belonging for children and families by creating welcoming, accepting, and safe environments for children and families to learn and play


Work collaboratively to build strong family partnerships in our communities through meaningful communication, facilitation of events and opportunities to involve and engage families in our work


Be innovative in their approach to alignment with Ontario's emergent curriculum and guiding pedagogical philosophy, 'How Does Learning Happen?'


Ensure a strong commitment to leading and caring with an intent for Equity, respect for Diversity, demand for Inclusion, and facilitation of Belonging that every family deserves


How does Today's Family stand out as an employer of CHOICE?


Today's Family is the place to GROW! With many programs and types of programs, we offer unique opportunities to master new skills, lend their talents, harness their passions by experiencing a variety of early learning and child care programs and special projects


We offer FLEXIBLE and blended full-time positions, offering Educators better, more reliable work that is rooted in caring and opportunity for growth


TELL the STORY of your professional journey as an RECE leader with resources and platforms to share your learning, best thinking, and practices to strengthen programs across our communities and work towards your Continuous Professional Learning (CPL)


LEVERAGE your gifts. We're committed to investing in diverse skills, talents, and experiences that help us to enhance programs and inclusion for children and families. Have a specific skill? Speak multiple languages? Consider bringing them to the table and watch them spark new learning, exploration, and opportunity within our programs


ADVANCE your career by learning more about apprenticeship opportunities to gain RECE credentials to access workforce benefits part of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan


FLOURISH with connections to community resources and partnerships for continuous professional learning and endless emergence in your career as an Educator


PRIORITIZE the health and well-being of you and your family with employee benefits like a competitive, comprehensive health benefit program as part of any 25+ hour per week permanent contract, including medical, dental, and vision coverage AND access to employee wellness resources and services through LifeWorks


INVEST in your future by participating in our employer supported retirement savings plan and disability and life insurance plans


If you've read through this opportunity and feel like, "Hey, you know what, yes, Today's Family aligns with my own values and dreams for the future.", then we invite you to reach out, send in your application, or even stop by to ask more questions or to introduce yourself. We would like to meet you!


We would be happy to connect with you as you explore your future.


If not yet, we welcome you to keep us mind as you think about your next steps forward.


We invite you to learn more about Today's Family, who we are, what we're up to, why we exist, and where were headed by visiting www.todaysfamily.ca or following our story on social media @todaysfamilyont.



Our Commitment to You:


Our People Resources Team is here for you during every step of the way. Please contact us at any point in your exploration of or application to Today's Family.


At Today's Family, we celebrate, support and thrive on diversity for the benefit of our staff, programs and our community. We are actively seeking qualified individuals with demonstrated skill and knowledge to deal with all aspects of diversity in early learning and child care.


Today's Family is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities through the hiring process in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). If you require an accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please contact our People Partners at hr@todaysfamily.ca.



Education: o ECE Diploma Program


License: RECE; In good standing with the College of ECEs (CECE)


Must be COVID-19 Vaccinated and provide Proof of Vaccination


Today's Family is committed to building a work environment that values human rights, equity, diversity and inclusion to ensure welcoming experiences that meet the needs of the families and communities we serve.


Today's Family will provide job applicants with accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.