Child Care Assistant

DUTIES:

Childcare workers typically do the following:

• Supervise and monitor the safety of children in their care

• Prepare meals and organize mealtimes and snacks for children

• Help children keep good hygiene

• Change the diapers of infants and toddlers, assisting with potty training. Cleaning bowl movements off children who are using the potty if needed.

• Organize activities or implement a curriculum that allow children to learn about the world and explore interests

• Develop schedules and routines to ensure that children have enough physical activity, rest, and playtime

• Watch for signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring the problems to the attention of parents

• Keep records of children’s progress, routines, and interest

Childcare workers introduce babies and toddlers to basic concepts, such as manners, by reading to them and playing with them. For example, they teach young children how to share and take turns by playing games with other children.

• Instruct children in health and personal habits such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.

• Read to children, and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.

• Organize and participate in recreational activities, such as games.

• Assist in preparing food for children and serve meals and refreshments to children and regulate rest periods.

• Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.

• Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.

• Dress children. Help them learn how to dress themselves

• Perform housekeeping duties such as wiping shelves, cleaning toys, washing dishes, cleaning up vomit from an ill child, urine and bowl movements from accidents from child and cleaning toys.

Childcare workers often help preschool-age children prepare for kindergarten. Young children learn from playing, solving problems, questioning, and experimenting. Childcare workers use play and other instructional techniques to help children’s development. For example, they use storytelling and rhyming games to teach language and vocabulary. They may help improve children’s social skills by having them work together to build something in a sandbox or teach math by having children count when building with blocks. They may involve the children in creative activities, such as art, dance, and music.

Childcare workers also often watch school-age children before and after school. They help these children with homework if can but are not required to at Miss Moe’s Schoolhouse.

During the summer, when children are out of school, childcare workers may watch older children as well as younger ones for the entire day while the parents are at work.

Family childcare providers care for children in the provider’s own home during traditional working hours. They need to ensure that their homes and all staff they employ meet the regulations for family childcare providers.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $15.50 per hour

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to Commute:

• Middletown, NY 10940 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Middletown, NY 10940: Relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $16