Child Development Specialist

3 weeks ago

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery Full time
Job Summary: The Child Development Specialist provides direct care for children, newborn through six years of age, who are voluntarily placed by parents at the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery. This role involves engaging in intentional, developmentally, and trauma-informed interventions to prevent child abuse and neglect, provide security, restore predictability, soothe trauma-related arousal, and provide care that helps children and strengthens families.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide direct care for children in a healthy and nurturing care environment.
  • Plan and implement social-emotional, educational, and recreational age-appropriate activities that allow children to work toward parent-identified goals.
  • Assist children to develop safe and appropriate ways of interacting and expressing their feelings.
  • Manage children's behavior with the purpose of reinforcing positive behaviors and de-escalating challenging behaviors while processing the situation and providing alternatives in a positive manner.
  • Maintain accurate placement logs of child's daily activities, meals, and progress on parent-identified goals.
  • Prepare for shift by reading children's files, admission information, parent-identified goals, and other relevant placement information.
  • Follow all GMCN COVID-19 safety protocols.

Requirements:
  • Must be 19 years of age for day and evening shifts; 21 years of age for overnight.
  • Education: High school diploma or equivalent required; preference will be given to those with early childhood training, Associate's or Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood education, Psychology, Social Work, Human Services, or related field.
  • Experience: At least one-year professional experience working with children in similar childcare or residential setting preferred; experience partnering with diverse communities required.

What We Offer: The Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery is committed to practicing diversity, equity, and inclusion as an organization, and embedding this approach in everything that we do. We welcome candidates who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ, and people of all genders.

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