Job Description

Infant Teacher – The Learning Experience

Location: Plainfield, Indiana

Position: Infant Teacher

Job Type: Full-Time

Schedule: Monday–Friday

Where Happy Happens Here!

The Learning Experience – Plainfield is looking for a caring, dependable, and energetic Infant Teacher who loves creating a safe, nurturing environment for our youngest learners.

This is more than simply caring for babies. Our Infant Teachers build strong relationships with children and families while supporting each infant's social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development.

If you are patient, attentive, dependable, and passionate about early childhood education, we would love to meet you.

What You'll Do

As an Infant Teacher, you will:

• Provide warm, responsive, and attentive care for infants throughout the day.
• Maintain active supervision and ensure children are within required sight and sound supervision.
• Follow safe-sleep, feeding, diapering, sanitation, and classroom safety procedures.
• Follow each child's feeding, sleeping, and care schedule.
• Create engaging, age-appropriate learning experiences using TLE's curriculum.
• Encourage early language, sensory, motor, and social-emotional development.
• Maintain accurate daily records for bottles, meals, diaper changes, naps, activities, and other care needs.
• Keep the classroom clean, organized, welcoming, and licensing-ready.
• Communicate positively and professionally with families about their child's day and development.
• Work collaboratively with fellow teachers and center leadership.
• Follow all Indiana childcare licensing requirements and TLE health and safety standards.
• Participate in required training, staff meetings, and professional development.

What We're Looking For

Our ideal candidate is someone who:

• Genuinely enjoys working with infants.
• Is nurturing, patient, positive, and attentive.
• Understands that infant care requires constant supervision and attention to detail.
• Is dependable and arrives ready to work according to schedule.
• Communicates professionally with parents and coworkers.
• Works well as part of a classroom team.
• Can follow established procedures and maintain accurate documentation.
• Is willing to learn and grow professionally.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Previous childcare, daycare, preschool, or infant-care experience preferred.
• CDA, Early Childhood Education coursework, or related credentials are a plus.
• Must meet Indiana childcare employment and background-check requirements.
• Must be able to complete required health, safety, CPR/First Aid, and childcare training.
• Must be physically capable of safely lifting and caring for infants and performing normal classroom responsibilities.

Why Join TLE Plainfield?

We believe great childcare begins with great teachers. We are building a strong team where employees are supported, held to clear professional standards, and given opportunities to grow.

Team members can benefit from:

• Competitive hourly compensation
• Consistent Monday–Friday schedule
• Paid training and professional development
• Career advancement opportunities
• Opportunities to progress into Lead Teacher and center leadership roles
• Supportive center leadership
• A fun, positive workplace centered around our Happy Happens Here culture
• The opportunity to make a meaningful impact during one of the most important stages of a child's development

If you're ready to bring patience, energy, professionalism, and a genuine love for infants to work every day, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today to join The Learning Experience – Plainfield and help us create a place where Happy Happens Here! 🐘

Compensation: $17.00 - $19.00 per hour

The Learning Experience

At The Learning Experience, we make early education joyful, engaging and fun so children are happy to learn, play and grow.

Our curriculum focuses on the six ages and stages of early childhood development and engages children in hands-on learning activities that encourage them to explore and solve problems at their own rate of development. This forms a foundation for kids to Learn, Play and Grow under the care of our nurturing teachers and staff.

At TLE®, we’ve created a full cast of characters that become our little learners’ educators, partners and friends through their preschool education journey. Each character has a unique personality and area of interest and brings learning to life by allowing children to explore the world through fun and imagination.

This franchise is independently owned and operated by a franchisee. Your application will go directly to the franchisee, and all hiring decisions will be made by the management of this franchisee. All inquiries about employment at this franchisee should be made directly to the franchise location, and not to The Learning Experience Corporate.