About this role
Safety/Security Status: None
Summary
Our Kids Center workers provide personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients. A kid’s center worker responsible is to provide a safe, secure, fun atmosphere for the children in their care. Kids Center workers will develop relationships with parents to communicate with them on daily behaviors and activities.
Available Shift
- Monday - Friday 7:45am-12:00ppm
Primary responsibilities
- Observe and monitor children's play activities.
- Create and maintain great versatile activities for kids to participate in.
- Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities
- Read to children, and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
- Organize and participate in recreational activities, such as games.
- Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
- Perform housekeeping duties such as laundry, cleaning, dishwashing, and changing of towels.
- Sanitize toys and play equipment.
- Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
- Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
- Follow policies and procedures for the kid’s center to ensure the safety for all the kids involved.
- Perform great team work among other coworkers.
- Perform great commination skills with the children and parents.
High school Diploma or GED
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Other facts
About City of Bentonville
In Bentonville, it’s not unusual to pass a world-class museum, a bike trail, and a neighbor who still waves on the same morning.
You’ll find nationally recognized institutions like Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, and Walmart’s global headquarters. But you’ll also find top-ranked public schools, a connected park system shaped by long-term planning, and a downtown filled with homegrown restaurants, galleries, and gathering spaces.
We build for the long term. Neighborhoods evolve with intention. From parks to permitting, we build systems that reflect trust, purpose, and the people they serve.
This is a city where even the biggest ideas still start with a wave and a handshake.
What you'll do
- Kids Center workers are responsible for providing a safe and fun atmosphere for children while observing their activities and maintaining records. They also engage in recreational activities and communicate with parents about their children's behaviors.
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