Early Childhood Teacher

Job Summary

The Student Parent Support Center provides information, support, and family resources for university students, faculty, staff, and patients. Our childcare programs are NAEYC accredited and serve children from birth to six years. We offer part‑time and full‑time programming in three campus childcare programs for students, faculty, and staff, and drop‑in childcare for patients visiting the three U Health Centers in the Salt Lake Valley, including Campus Child Care Programs (UKids – Presidents Circle, UKids – East Village, UKids – Guardsman Way), South Jordan Health Center Program, Farmington Health Center Program, and Sugar House Health Center Program.

Multiple openings are available and we hire continuously.

Our teachers bring kindness, patience, and mastery to the classroom every day, fostering children’s natural curiosity to learn through play and discovery. They encourage children to be lifelong learners using our nationally recognized curriculum that promotes active learning, social, physical, verbal, and cognitive development. We invest in our teachers by providing a minimum of twenty hours of annual professional development in early childhood education, Utah State licensing rules, and NAEYC best practices.

Join our team and grow with us!

Benefits include a generous retirement plan, paid parental leave (in addition to FMLA), paid holidays, vacation accruals, affordable health insurance options through the University of Utah health system, tuition reduction for employees and families, short‑term and long‑term disability insurance, life insurance, HSA/FSA plans, and a free public transportation pass.

• Complies with State of Utah Child Care Licensing Regulations at all times.
• Aligns with NAEYC Standards.
• Promotes leadership skills within the classroom team and oversees classroom assistants to interpret behaviors and ensure appropriate interactions with children.
• Models appropriate behavior and teaching techniques for teaching assistants.
• Develops and implements lesson plans to stimulate developmental progress and delivers intentional daily experiences and hands‑on activities for infants, toddlers, and preschool children in accordance with Creative Curriculum Developmental Objectives, DAP guidance techniques, and play‑based learning.
• Uses positive guidance techniques to minimize inappropriate behavior and redirects children to manage their own behavior positively.
• Supports staff in activities such as playing on the floor at children’s eye level, actively supervising and maintaining ratios, assisting children with toileting, diaper changing, potty training, hand washing, cleaning the classroom, and maintaining safe transitions between indoors and playground.
• Assists children with physical necessities, feeding, toileting/diapering, medical emergencies, and other life skills to provide proper care and facilitate development.
• Provides daily routine care: feeding, diapering, cuddling, playing, singing, talking, picking children up, holding them, and otherwise creating a gentle and nurturing environment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Establishes and maintains friendly, professional, and effective working relationships with employees, parents, and children.
• Works with parents and guardians to build relationships, discuss concerns, provide suggestions, and resolve day‑to‑day problems.
• Works collaboratively and supports all staff.
• Teams to maintain a cheerful and aesthetically pleasing childcare environment reflecting children’s interests.
• Follows directives from Administration, including the Director or Director designee, even when last‑minute changes occur.
• Demonstrates the ability to work independently while being open to direction from the supervisor.
• Displays consistent attendance and punctuality.
• Accurately records program usage data to maintain compliance with child‑care licensing and NAEYC.
• Behaves in alignment with the University of Utah and NAEYC’s Ethical Code of Conduct.

As an Early Childhood Teacher, you develop all lesson plans and curriculum, assess problem behaviors and emotional…