Cottage Assistant

Overview

Cottage Assistants have a wide-ranging list of job responsibilities. The Cottage Assistant’s primary purpose is to assist and support the Cottage Parents as they care for children. The Cottage Assistant will be required, at times, to care for groups of children while the Cottage Parents are not present. 

Responsibilities

Cottage Upkeep

• Train children how to properly care for their rooms and their Cottages (chores)
• Help with laundry, deep cleans, and other needs of Cottage upkeep
• Maintain playground cleanliness
• Prepare meals as needed

Caring for the Children

Nurturing

• Train the children in both life skills and spiritual growth
• Help the children maintain good hygiene
• Monitor the children’s clothing needs
• Invest in relationships with the children
• Dedicate time to studying for and giving daily devotions
• Take the children to church and teach them to be involved in their church
• Drive children to and occasionally schedule dentist and doctor appointments and all other appointments

Training

• Teach the children life skills and responsibilities

Academics

• Ensure children complete homework and assist them when needed
• Manage school projects
• Check grading software daily
• Wash school uniforms throughout the week

Relationships

• Spend quality time
  
• Mentoring
• Plan activities
• Create a family environment in the cottages
• Cover for Cottage Parents on their days off

Outside events

• Attend Christmas events
• Help with chaperoning or the planning of Hope activities
• Driving children to doctor appointments, youth activities, etc.

Other:

Staff members hired by Hope Children’s Home must be dedicated to maintaining and instilling Christian values in the children they care for.  All Hope Children’s Home employees must be born-again Christians and agree with our Mission Statement, Core Values, and Doctrinal Statements. Additionally, staff members are hired based on professional and educational credentials, demonstrated experience, and Christian testimony.

Hope Children's Home is generally exempt from the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes illegal discrimination in employment based on religion. Therefore, we retain the right to give preference in hiring to persons who are Christian, and/or in good standing with this organization. Beyond this religion exception, however, it is our employment practice to tolerate no discrimination in hiring, compensating, promoting, or terminating employees because of an individual’s race, color, sex (except as pastoral staff needs require), national origin, disability, veteran status, or age. This policy is based on laws established under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other applicable local, state, and federal guidelines.