Child care workers

Child-care workers provide care and supervision for children in residential homes and in before-school, after-school, vacation and day care centres.

Job Responsibilities

• 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