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Full Time Teacher-Floater

🇺🇸 Lake Worth, FL 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $17 - $22 per Hour 💻 Teaching 🗓️ March 15th, 2026

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Bright Horizons is hiring a Full Time Teacher-Floater. This role involves creating engaging hands-on activities, maintaining communication with parents, ensuring classroom safety and cleanliness, and providing flexible teaching coverage across different classrooms and age groups within the center.

Highlights
  • Provide support in various classrooms and age groups as a floater teacher from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • Create hands-on learning activities tailored to children's needs and interests.
  • Communicate daily milestones and progress with parents to maintain engagement.
  • Maintain a safe and clean environment by adhering to established procedures and guidelines.
  • Proficiency with developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) is required.
  • Compensation ranges from $16.50 to $22.30 per hour based on education and experience.
  • Required qualifications include being at least 18 years old with a high school diploma or GED, related early education coursework or CDA, and passing state and company background checks.
  • Preferred qualifications include completion of DCF 45-hour training/exams, one year of professional childcare teaching experience, and higher-level education in early childhood education.
  • Must comply with physical requirements including lifting children and responding to emergencies promptly.
  • Benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, paid leave, 401(k), disability insurance, life insurance, career development, and free college degree opportunities.

Full Time Teacher-Floater Full Description

Full Time Teacher-Floater

Lake Worth, Florida, United States of America, 33463
Teachers & Center Support
Full time

Grow your teaching career with Bright Horizons, where you can make a meaningful impact on children’s lives every day. Learn from early education experts while having the opportunity to pursue a CDA or college degree at no cost. Experience this and more as a Bright Horizons Teacher.

Bright Horizons at Military Trail is now hiring in Military Trail FL!
  • Full-time positions now available with:
  • Floating from 9:00 a.m to 6:00 p.m
  • We offer competitive pay ranging from $16.50 to 22.30 per hour based on education and experience.  
  • Preferred: DCF45hrs/exams completed (contingent upon state residency OR time in field)

Responsibilities:

  • Create hands-on activities to meet the needs and interests of the children

  • Maintain open communication with parents, sharing their child's daily milestones

  • Ensure a safe and clean classroom by following essential procedures and guidelines

  • Provide support in any classroom or age group where teaching coverage is needed across a center

Qualifications:
Candidates must pass required state and company background checks and meet state and company minimum education and experience requirements:  

  • 18 years of age with a high school diploma or GED is required

  • Related college-level early education course work or CDA is required

  • 1 year of professional experience teaching in child care, daycare, or preschool settings is preferred

  • CDA, Associate, or bachelor’s degree in early education or related field is preferred

  • Demonstrated knowledge of developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) for children is required

  • Florida Care Provider Clearinghouse Background Screening https://crw.flclearinghouse.com/

Be part of a community where people grow, futures are shaped, and lives are changed. We offer the rewards, opportunities, and support you deserve because making a difference goes both ways. We’re changing the world of work and family, and it starts with you. At Bright Horizons, you’re the difference.

Physical Requirements:
This position requires the employee to comply with all applicable federal, state, local, Bright Horizons’, and client site requirements concerning immunizations, employment physical/screening, and health and safety training.

If hired, you will work in person in an early education/preschool child care center to provide supervision, care, curriculum delivery and services per Bright Horizons’ policies, procedures and guidance, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations, and in a manner that will ensure the safety of children in Bright Horizons care and the employee.

  • Frequently lift, carry, or hold children with a range of weight from 10 to 40 pounds; occasionally lift, carry, or hold weight more than 40 pounds

  • Demonstrate full range of motion to lift, reach, squat, climb, sit, and otherwise fully participate in activities

  • Respond immediately and appropriately to multiple or unexpected situations or emergencies

  • Maintain mental and physical alertness and an appropriate level of energy to perform essential job requirements

The full set of physical requirements for this role can be reviewed at https://careers.brighthorizons.com/job-descriptions. Bright Horizons complies with all laws that require reasonable accommodation for qualifying disabilities and/or pregnancy-related limitations.

This position requires in-person work in the [City, State] area.

Compensation: The hourly rate for this position is between $16.50-22.30 per hour. The pay range listed here is what Bright Horizons in good faith anticipates offering for this job opening. Actual compensation offers within this range will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education and training, certifications, geography, and other relevant business or organizational factors.

Benefits: 
Bright Horizons offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: 

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance 

  • Paid vacation, sick, holiday, and parental bonding leave 

  • 401(k) retirement plan  

  • Long-term and short-term disability insurance 

  • Life insurance 

  • Money-saving discounts and financial planning tools 

  • Career development opportunities and free college degrees through our Horizons CDA & Degree Program 

  • Caregiving support and resources for the children and adults in your family 

  • Learn more at https://careers.brighthorizons.com/us/en/health-and-wellness 

Explore your passion for early learning; pursue your purpose as a teacher, and enjoy the possibilities of all the places a Bright Horizons career can take you – in a workplace dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion; where you can be you. Come build a brighter future at one of FORTUNE’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Apply today!
Bright Horizons is accepting applications for this role on an ongoing basisCompensation: $16.50 - $22.30 / hr

Life at Bright Horizons:

At Bright Horizons, you’re more than your job title — you’re the difference. Whether you’re nurturing a child’s first steps or supporting the systems behind the scenes, your work creates real impact. We’re a community that celebrates individuality, invests in your growth, and supports your whole self. Because when you thrive, so do the children, families, and clients we serve. Join us and help build a brighter future — for yourself and for others.

Bright Horizons provides equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and does not discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law. Bright Horizons complies with the laws and regulations described in the following federal government resources: Know Your RightsFamily and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA).

If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation in completing these application materials or any aspect of the application and hiring process, please contact the recruitment helpdesk at 855-877-6866 or bhrecruit@brighthorizons.com. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.