child care assistant

As included on the ONET website for 39-9011.00 (Child Care Workers), the Child Care Assistants are to perform a variety of tasks/duties on behalf of the infant/children within their assigned room. Assistants will look after and spend time with infants/children aged 6 weeks - 12 years old. Assistants will help encourage and engage children in age-appropriate activities such as storytelling, singing, games, and guided play; and help children learn basic concepts such as colors, numbers, letters, shapes, and days of the week. Assistants will help children follow daily routines, encourage good behavior and maintain order by supervising children to ensure they are safe at all times. Assistants will help children open and/or serve them the prepacked meals and snacks parents have provided them. Assistants will follow health and safety guidelines, within their respective assigned room, to include proper disposal of meal packaging, paper plates/plastic utensils, and hand washing of sippy cups/baby bottles from child meals at the room’s sink. Workers may handle laundry duties such as washing, drying, folding, and storing fitted sheets from room cots and classroom soft materials such as clothes used for dressing up, plush toys and plush pillows used for sitting.