Eliada Homes, Inc.·Asheville, North Carolina
The Floating Teacher provides classroom coverage for breaks and planning time while supporting children's physical, emotional, and educational needs. They ensure licensing, safety, and sanitation standards are maintained across the center's operations.
Description Eliada Homes, a historical fixture within Western North Carolina since 1903, is one Asheville's longest running nonprofits. Our beautiful 300+ acre campus provides a cradle to career continuum of services for over 600 children and youth annually. Child Development staff work with children up to 5 years of age providing them with services which focus on social, emotional, cognitive, and motor development while integrating life-skills into our daily activities and lessons.
Eliada's 5-Star accredited facility offers an amazing team focused atmosphere where you are able to learn and grow while making an impact in the lives of young students. Eliada Child Development staff qualify for tuition assistance through T.E.A.C.H., and supplemental wages through WAGE$.
The Floating Teacher supports operations, classrooms, children, and teachers by covering in classrooms for teacher breaks or planning time, providing extra support for transitions and times where an additional teacher is needed, serve as a substitute when needed, and perform tasks related to the operations of the center.
What you'll be doing: Ensures that children's physical, emotional, and educational needs are met through close visual supervision and observation of group, frequent one-on-one interactions with individual children.
Maintains necessary classroom records/documents.
Ensures that licensing, safety, and sanitation standards are maintained in the classroom.
Seeks opportunities to further education and attends all relevant training necessary to meet annual in-service requirements.
Accepts additional duties and responsibilities and attends training and professional meetings as assigned and requested by the Assistant Director of Children’s Services
High school diploma or GED required.
Must have Early Childhood credentials or enrolled in Early Childhood courses.
Equal Opportunity Employer Eliada Homes provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Job descriptions are not intended and should not be construed to be exhaustive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with this job. They are meant to be accurate reflections of the principal job elements essential for making fair pay decisions. This position description is not intended as a contract. A Letter of Employment confirms employment. North Carolina is an at-will employment state and Eliada is an at-will employer.
Market context
In North Carolina, classroom teacher roles tied to autism support often reflect steady demand in schools and related programs, especially for candidates who can work consistently with children and follow structured support plans. These roles can be competitive because employers look for reliability, transportation, a valid driver’s license, and readiness to complete paid RBT training. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to save time, then confirm the schedule, setting, and training expectations before applying.