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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play. | Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts. | |||
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Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped. | ||||
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Sanitize toys and play equipment. | ||||
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Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books. | ||||
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Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention. | ||||
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Observe and monitor children's play activities. | ||||
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Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered. | ||||
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Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits. | ||||
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Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs. | ||||
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Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas. | ||||
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Operate in-house day-care centers within businesses. | ||||
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Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas. | ||||
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Dress children and change diapers. | ||||
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Help children with homework and school work. | ||||
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Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens. | ||||
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Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments. | ||||
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Place or hoist children into baths or pools. | ||||
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Maintain a safe play environment. | ||||
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Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues. | ||||
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Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children. | ||||
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Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans. | ||||
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Regulate children's rest periods. | ||||
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Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls. | ||||
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Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips. | ||||
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Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children. | ||||
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Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Child Care Workers
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
- Knowledges
- Skills
- Abilites
- Tools and Technology
- Education and Experience
- Alternate Job Titles
- Salaries
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Psychology | Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Memorization | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Educational software | Computer based training software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Scheduling software | Calendar and scheduling software | |||
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Web browser software | Internet browser software | |||
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Baby bottles | Feeding bottles or accessories | |||
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Child car safety seats | Car seats | |||
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Climbing structures | Balance or gross motor equipment | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Dryers | Domestic tumble dryers | |||
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Educational toys | Cognitive toys | |||
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Emergency first aid kits | Emergency medical services first aid kits | |||
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Fire extingushers | Fire extinguishers | |||
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Kitchen stoves | Domestic ranges | |||
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Laptop computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Medicine dosing syringes | Oral liquid medication syringes | |||
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Microwave ovens | Domestic microwave ovens | |||
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Passenger cars | Automobiles or cars | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Photocopying equipment | Photocopiers | |||
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Strollers | Carriages or perambulators or strollers | |||
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Toy block sets | Building blocks | |||
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Vacuum cleaners | Vacuum cleaners | |||
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Washing machines | Domestic clothes washers | |||
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Water tables | Sand or water tables or activity centers | |||
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Wet mops | Wet mops | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Afterschool Counselor | |||
Aide | |||
Attendant | |||
Au Pair | |||
Baby Attendant | |||
Baby Sitter | |||
Babysitter | |||
Before and After School Daycare Worker | |||
Boarding Mother | |||
Bus Escort | |||
Bus Matron | |||
Child Attendant | |||
Child Care Aide | |||
Child Care Assistant | |||
Child Care Attendant | |||
Child Care Development Specialist | |||
Child Care Provider | |||
Child Care Sitter | |||
Child Care Supervisor | |||
Child Care Teacher | |||
Child Care Worker | |||
Child Caregiver | |||
Child Daycare Worker | |||
Child Life Specialist | |||
Child Monitor | |||
Child's Nurse | |||
Childcare Aide | |||
Childcare Assistant | |||
Childcare Attendant | |||
Childcare Provider | |||
Childcare Specialist | |||
Childcare Worker | |||
Children's Aide | |||
Children's Attendant | |||
Children's Institution Attendant | |||
Children's Lunchroom Supervisor | |||
Classroom Monitor | |||
Day Care Aide | |||
Day Care Assistant | |||
Day Care Attendant | |||
Day Care Home Mother | |||
Day Care Home Provider | |||
Day Care Supervisor | |||
Day Care Worker | |||
Daycare Aide | |||
Daycare Assistant | |||
Daycare Provider | |||
Daycare Teacher | |||
Family Day Care Provider | |||
Governess | |||
Hall Monitor | |||
Home Child Care Provider | |||
Infant Childcare Provider | |||
Infant Teacher | |||
Infant and Toddler Teacher | |||
Instructional Aide | |||
Lunchroom Aide | |||
Lunchroom Attendant | |||
Lunchroom Monitor | |||
Lunchroom Mother | |||
Mother Helper | |||
Mother's Helper | |||
Nanny | |||
Nursemaid | |||
Nursery Attendant | |||
Nursery Day Care Worker | |||
Nursery Helper | |||
Nursery School Attendant | |||
Nursery Supervisor | |||
Parent Aide | |||
Playground Aide | |||
Playground Attendant | |||
Playground Monitor | |||
Playground Supervisor | |||
Playroom Attendant | |||
Pre-Kindergarten Teacher (Pre-K Teacher) | |||
Preschool Aide | |||
Preschool Assistant | |||
Preschool Teacher | |||
School Bus Aide | |||
School Bus Attendant | |||
School Bus Monitor | |||
School Childcare Attendant | |||
Teacher | |||
Teacher Assistant | |||
Toddler Teacher | |||
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