Childcare Workers

What You'll Do

• Maintain a safe play environment.
• Observe and monitor children's play activities.
• Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
• Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
• Care for children in institutional setting.
• Sanitize toys and play equipment.
• Dress children and change diapers.
• Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
• Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
• Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
• Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
• Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
• Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
• Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
• Regulate children's rest periods.

Requirements

Must have all qualifications prior to entry:

High School Diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (G.E.D.)

Level 1 IVP Fingerprint card

Must have after hire;

First Aid/CPR

Food Handlers Card

Physical Requirements:

• Positions in this class typically require: stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, lifting, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and seeing
• Incumbents may be subjected to blood and other body fluids
• Medium Work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects

Nice to Have

CDA

6 month experience in the child care field

Benefits