Skills Home Child Care Provider near Saskatoon (SK)

Find out what skills you typically need to work as a home child care provider in Canada. These skills are applicable to all Home child care providers (NOC 44100).

Tasks

  • Assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents
  • Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
  • Shop for food and household supplies
  • Travel with family on trips and assist with child supervision and housekeeping duties
  • Wash, iron and press clothing and household linens
  • Care for pets
  • Bathe, dress and feed infants and children
  • Care for foster children
  • Discipline children according to the methods requested by the parents
  • Instruct children in personal hygiene and social development
  • Keep records of daily activities and health information regarding children
  • 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
  • Sterilize bottles, prepare formulas and change diapers for infants
  • 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

Skills and Knowledge Checklist

The following skills and knowledge are usually required in this occupation.

Skills

Handling Goods and Materials

Working with goods and materials manually or with machines.

Building

Working with materials to construct, renovate and maintain structures.

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles

Working with and/or repairing vehicles, machinery or stationary equipment.

Working with Technological Equipment and Machinery

Working with technical equipment, instruments, machinery and other systems.

Service and Care Help - Service and Care
  • Cleaning and House/Shop Keeping
  • Tending to Daily Needs
  • Cooking, Preparing, Serving
  • Counselling and Nurturing

Service and Care

Taking care of the needs of people and animals.

Cleaning and House/Shop Keeping
Providing cleaning and janitorial services.
Tending to Daily Needs
Responding to the personal care needs of people or animals.
Cooking, Preparing, Serving
Providing food and beverage services.
Counselling and Nurturing
Responding to clients' needs by interpreting their emotional and motivational states, and determining and providing appropriate support or interventions.
Communication Help - Communication
  • Teaching and Training
  • Liaising and Networking

Communication

Using communication skills to share information, advise and influence.

Teaching and Training
Facilitating the acquisition of new knowledge and skills.
Liaising and Networking
Developing alliances, contacts or partnerships, and exchanging information with others.

Creative Expression

Using various materials and formats to create work that is intended to be artistically satisfying, entertaining, instructive or functional.

Information Handling

Creating and using systems for the storage and retrieval of knowledge and data.

Analysis Help - Analysis
  • Planning

Analysis

Examining and evaluating information.

Planning
Determining phases and steps, defining activities and tasks and establishing schedules to complete objectives on time and within budget.
Management Help - Management
  • Supervising
  • Co-ordinating and Organizing

Management

Taking charge of the direction and resources of an organization.

Supervising
Directing and monitoring the performance of others.
Co-ordinating and Organizing
Organizing and co-ordinating the activities of groups and individuals to align their activities with organizational objectives.

Knowledge

Manufacturing and Production

Knowledge related to the delivery of a series of operations in large-scale production or processing of goods or crops, according to safety and quality standards.

Communications and Transportation

Knowledge related to the provision and transmission of systems of communication and entertainment and the delivery of consumer goods or services.

Law and Public Safety

Knowledge related to the provision and enforcement of laws and regulations that safeguard the effective functioning of a democratic society.

Social Sciences and Arts

Knowledge related to culture, origins and patterns of human activity, and the development and expression of thought.

Education and Training Help - Education and Training
  • Teaching and Instruction

Education and Training

Knowledge related to the theory and practice of teaching, and the methods used in the design, delivery and evaluation of the provision of knowledge or information.

Teaching and Instruction
Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum design, teaching and instructional methods for training individuals and groups.

Health Services

Knowledge related to the provision of medical science and technology for the physical and mental well-being of others.

Mathematics and Science

Knowledge related to specialized areas of research such as measurement, living organisms, physical substances, and properties and relationships of quantity, space, and matter.

Engineering and Technology

Knowledge related to the design, building, use or repair of machinery, equipment, systems, and structures.

Business, Finance and Management

Knowledge related to organization and control of business activities.

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