child care provider - private home

Work setting

• Employer's home

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas
• Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
• Bathe, dress and feed infants and children
• Discipline children according to the methods requested by the parents
• Instruct children in personal hygiene and social development
• Maintain a safe and healthy environment in the home
• Organize, activities such as games and outings for children
• Prepare and serve nutritious meals
• Prepare infants and children for rest periods
• Supervise and care for children
• Take children to and from school and to appointments
• Tend to emotional well-being of children
• Help children with homework
• Cook

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Physically demanding
• Repetitive tasks
• Attention to detail

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Excellent oral communication
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Organized
• Reliability
• Time management
• Patience
• Honesty