Teacher

Where You’ll Work

Founded in 1887, Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center is a 318-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in downtown Los Angeles, California. Serving over 70,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, women’s health, and a family birth center. In 2025, we opened our new patient tower, Grand Tower, featuring a dramatically expanded Emergency Department and Family Birth Center that will increase patient comfort and privacy.

Additionally, California Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and recently was awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care.

California Hospital Medical Center shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health and CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care. Visit https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/californiahospital for more information.  One Community. One Mission. One California 

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Teacher, you will be responsible for providing a safe, developmentally appropriate early care and education environment that fosters the cognitive, social, emotional, language, and physical skill development of infant, toddler, and preschool children.Every day you will develop and implement curriculum and daily lesson plans tailored for early childhood education classrooms. You will also build collaborative relationships with parents and families, and meticulously complete all necessary documentation for the evaluation and management of early childhood education programs.To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate exceptional expertise in early childhood education, a proven ability to create engaging and developmentally appropriate learning environments, and strong collaborative skills for working with parents and managing program documentation.

The California Hospital Medial Center Early Care and Education programs provide early care and education services for infants toddlers and pre-school children. Center-based Early Care and Education programs are open year round from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m Monday though Friday. Duties include:

• Prepares classroom setting;
• Maintains safety and educational programs; supervises children in the classroom, outdoor play periods and nap time;
• Provides a supportive environment in which children can learn and practice appropriate and acceptable individual and group behaviors in compliance with licensing regulations.
• Organizes and prepares developmentally appropriate early childhood education programs;
• Plans and implements curriculum and education for children ranging in age from six weeks to five years old.
• Provides activities and opportunities that encourage curiosity, exploration, language, problem solving, and physical skills appropriate to the developmental levels and learning styles of children.

Job Requirements

Required

• Associate of Arts in Child Development
• Meet minimum qualifications as per Title 22 and Title 5 regulations to include the core units of child or human growth & development, child, family & community coursework
• Experience providing child development services to low income families and families from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.,
• Basic Life Support - CPR, within 90 Days 
• First Aid, within 90 Days
• Fire Safety, within 90

Preferred

• At least 24 semesters units in ECE, including 3 units related to the care of infants.
• Experience working in an early childhood environment and/or educational institution/school