Early Education and Childcare Practitioners
What they do most days?
Promotes and leads physical activities and children’s games, play, creativity, and problem solving .
Provides a secure and supportive environment and supervises young children at mealtimes .
Coordinates nurturing care in bathing, dressing, preparation of feeds, feeding babies, and in changing babies and toddlers clothing whenever necessary .
Supervises and supports other early education and childcare workers .
Communicates with parents, colleagues and external professionals on children’s development and health and well-being .
Leads on preparing children for transitions to different settings, including school. .
Identifies and responds to health and safety issues .
Coordinates observation and assessment on children’s play, development and learning.
Plans children’s day and activities and leads on social, language and numerical development .
Hard Skills
Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.
Soft Skills
Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.