Childcare Assistant
Provide care and supervision to children in a day care centre.
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- What's it like to be a Childcare Assistant?
- How to become a Childcare Assistant
- Latest Childcare Assistant jobs
- Top skills and experience for Childcare Assistants
- Is Childcare Assistant the right role for you?
- Childcare Assistant role reviews
What's it like to be a Childcare Assistant?
A Childcare Assistant provides care and structured learning to children, usually in a day care centre. Childcare Assistants supervise children as they learn and play, provide comfort and reassurance, plan stimulating activities, and keep children clean and safe.
Tasks and duties
- Supervising children at all times.
- Organising stimulating and enriching activities for children.
- Preparing materials and equipment for children to use.
- Providing social development guidance and managing behaviours.
- Coordinating children’s routines and ensuring they are kept to.
- Supervising and teaching children basic hygiene principles.
How to become a Childcare Assistant
The minimum qualification to work as a Childcare Assistant is the Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care (CHC30121).
- Complete a Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care (CHC30121) through TAFE or a private college. It will take you 1 year to complete full-time, and there are no minimum entry requirements.
- Consider continuing your studies with a Diploma of Early Childhood and Care (CHC50121). A Diploma will provide with the skills to advance into more senior roles, such as a Childcare Centre Manager.
- You’ll also need a Working With Children Check, a National Police Check and a First Aid Certificate.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Childcare Assistant employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Anaphylaxis Management
HLTAID012 Provide First Aid in an Education and Care Setting
Asthma Management
Child Safety
First Aid Certificate
Child Care
First Aid
Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
HLTAID009 Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Child Protection Services
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Latest Childcare Assistant reviews
Aug 2019
Childcare can be exhausting but very rewarding seeing the children's faces light up when they see you and learn new things
Reviewer's QualificationCertificate III in Children's Services
Experience5 – 9 years
Organisation sizeSmall (1-19 employees)
SpecialisationChildcare
The good thingsWorking with different people/ children daily
The challengesWorking with difficult children and rude employees
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Aug 2019
Some days are hard but it is a very rewarding job watching children grow and learn.
Reviewer's QualificationDiploma of Children's Services (Early childhood education and care)
Experience10+ years
Organisation sizeMedium (20-199 employees)
SpecialisationChildcare assistant
The good thingsI am at a centre that makes you feel valued and supported. Everyone works together and helps each other out when needed.
The challengesSome challenges are some days are harder than others. Some days their can be lots of crying from unsettled children, this then leads to a lot of heavy lifting and carrying the children to make them fe...
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