Child-care workers provide care and supervision for children in residential homes and in before-school, after-school, vacation and day care centres.
Skill level:
Semi-skilled
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Job Definition
- Assisting children to wash, dress and feed themselves
- Taking children to and from school or outdoors for recreation
- Playing games with children, or entertaining them by reading or storytelling
- Assisting in the preparation of materials and equipment for children's education and recreational activities
- Managing children's behaviour and guiding their social development
- Disciplining children and recommending or initiating other measures to control behaviour, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books
- Observing and monitoring children's play activities
- Keeping records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered
