Job Description
Summary Attend to children in a childcare setting.
Age 6 weeks -9 years old
Duties - Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
- Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.
- Sanitize toys and play equipment.
- Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
- Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
- Observe and monitor children's play activities.
- Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
- Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
- Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
- Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
- Operate in-house day-care centers within businesses.
- Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
- Dress children and change diapers.
- Help children with homework and school work.
- Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
- Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.
- Place or hoist children into baths or pools.
- Maintain a safe play environment.
- Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
- Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
- Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
- Regulate children's rest periods.
- Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
- Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
- Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children.
- Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
Requirements - Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
- Discuss child development and behavior with parents or guardians.
- Prepare foods or meals.
- Develop educational or training programs.
- Develop daily schedules for children or families.
- Perform administrative or clerical tasks.
- Organize recreational activities or events.
- Care for patients with mental illnesses.
- Train service staff.
- Assign duties or work schedules to employees.
- Perform human resources activities.
- Provide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families.
- Assist individuals with special needs.
- Clean tools or equipment.
- Teach daily living skills or behaviors.
- Monitor health or behavior of people or animals.
- Discuss child development and behavior with parents or guardians.
- Maintain client information or service records.
- Teach health or hygiene practices.
- Teach daily living skills or behaviors.
- Arrange items for use or display.
- Clean tools or equipment.
- Teach daily living skills or behaviors.
- Perform housekeeping duties.
- Accompany individuals or groups to activities.
Nice To Haves - Alarms
- Baby bottles
- Child car safety seats
- Climbing structures
- Desktop computers
- Dryers
- Educational software
- Educational toys
- Emergency first aid kits
- Fire extingushers
- Kitchen stoves
- Laptop computers
- Medicine dosing syringes
- Microsoft Word
- Microwave ovens
- Mobile telephones
- Passenger cars
- Personal computers
- Photocopying equipment
- Scheduling software
- Strollers
- Toy block sets
- Vacuum cleaners
- Washing machines
- Water tables
- Web browser software
- Wet mops
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