Lead Teacher Childcare

CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region is committed to building healthier communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen—both inside our hospitals and out in the community. With locations throughout Colorado, Utah, and Kansas, we deliver the same high standard of care to our employees as we do to our patients. Our 20 hospitals, emergency and urgent care centers, home care and hospice, Flight for Life Colorado ^TM , telehealth and over 240 physician practices and clinics offer endless opportunities! Here, you can grow your career and impact the people in the communities you serve.

CommonSpirit Health is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit, faith-based health systems, with a team of over 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. CommonSpirit operates more than 2,200 care sites and 140 hospitals, serving some of the most diverse communities across the nation, letting humankindness lead the way.

As a Lead Teacher, you are the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.

As a Lead Teacher you will be responsible for the supervision and management of the classroom in accordance with the mission and curriculum of Mercy Employee Child Care Center. As a Lead Teacher with us, you will use your education and experience in the field to create a classroom learning environment that is loving and developmentally appropriate and meets the physical, social, emotional and intellectual needs of each individual child.

In addition to bringing your whole self to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:

Experience or Education Requirements

Must meet one (1) of the following 8 types of experience requirements:

1. A Bachelor's degree in one of the following major areas of study:
   • Early Childhood Education
   • Elementary Education
   • Special Education
   • Child Psychology
   • Family and Child Development
2. A Bachelor's degree in an area not listed above with two(2) three-semester hour Early Childhood  Education college courses with one course being either Introduction to Early Childhood Education (ECE 101) or guidance strategies (ECE 103) and at least 970 (6 months) hours of verified experience in the care and supervision of four or more children six years of age who are not related to you.
3. Current Certification as a Child Development Associate (CDA) or Certified Child Care Professional (CCP) or other development approved credential.
4. Completion of a vocational or occupational education sequence in child growth and development and at least 1,820 hours (12 months) of verified experience in the care and supervision of four or more children six years of age who are not related to you.
5. Completion of a course of training approved by the department that includes training and work experience with children and at least 1,820 hours (12 months) of verified experience in the care and supervision of four of more children six years of age who are not related to you.
6. Twelve semester hours in college-level credits in child growth and development and/or early childhood education, which must include either introduction to early childhood education (ECE 101) or Guidance strategies (ECE 103) and at least 1,395 (9months) hours of verified experience in the care and supervision of four or more children six years of age who are not related to you
7. An Associates degree in child development or Early Childhood Education & sixty semester hours in Early Childhood Education which must include either introduction to early childhood education (ECE 101) or guidance strategies (ECE 103) and at least 910 hours (6 moths) of verified experience in the care and supervision of four or more children six years of age who are not related to you.
8. At least 3,640 hours (24 months) of Verified experience in the care and supervision of four o more children six years of age who are not related to you plus either: 
   • A current Colorado Level 1 credential
   • Two(2) three credit college courses with one course being either Introduction to early Childhood Education (ECE 101) or  guidance strategies (ECE 103)

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work -(prolonged periods of sitting and exert up to 10lbs force occasionally). 

This is a benefits eligible position that will cover our Wobbler room. 

Mercy Hospital is an 82 bed, acute care hospital located in the scenic southwestern Colorado town of Durango. It is the only hospital in Colorado to be rated by Medicare with five stars for overall hospital quality. It is recognized for excellence in orthopedic and spine surgery and for outstanding patient experience and patient safety. Mercy has also received ten consecutive ‘A’ grades for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group. Our providers use state-of-the-art technology in an environment designed to promote wellbeing and healing of body, mind, and spirit.

Among the many specialty services available at Mercy are emergency care (Level III trauma designation), surgical care, cardiac care (including interventional), Orthopedic and Spine Centers of Excellence, a Family Birthing Center, home care, hospice care more. Durango offers an exceptional quality of life with small town charm, excellent schools, and year-round, world-class outdoor recreation opportunities including snow sports, river sports, hiking, biking, camping and more.

Be sure to consider our generous benefits as part of your overall compensation!  Designed with your well-being in mind, our benefits include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401K with generous match
• Daycare FSA that can include a company contribution
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Forgiveness and more! 

View more on our benefits HERE.