Educator - Before & After Care West Lynn 27 hrs, contract.

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’re 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?:

Looking for new, innovative ways to play and share your skills and talents?
An expert in all things early learning, early childhood development, and child care?
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?
Seeking new opportunities and places to chart your pedagogical leadership journey?
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’re seeking Early Childhood Educators to:

Care for children in a wide variety of programs and neighbourhoods
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 ECE 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!