assisting children to wash, dress and feed themselves
// Unit group · 5311
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.
5 Service and Sales Workers / 53 Personal Care Workers / 531 Child Care Workers and Teachers' Aides / All level 4
// Working conditions
// Hand tools
No hand tools in this set.
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.
Included occupations
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Baby-sitter
- Child care worker
- Creche ayah
- Family day care worker
- Nanny
- Out of school hours care worker
Excluded occupations
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Early childhood educator - 2342
Indexed job titles 12
- Assistant, day care: childrenISCO-88 5131
- Ayah, crecheISCO-88 5131
- Ayah, homeISCO-88 5131
- BabysitterISCO-88 5131
- Carer, childISCO-88 5131
- Governess, childrenISCO-88 5131
- NannyISCO-88 5131
- NursemaidISCO-88 5131
- Sitter, babyISCO-88 5131
- Worker, child careISCO-88 5131
- Worker, family day careISCO-88 5131
- Worker, out of school hours careISCO-88 5131