Assistant Day Care Practitioner
As an Assistant Practitioner, you’ll be responsible for providing day care for children in a non-supervisory role.
Being a Day Care Practitioner
Working as part of a team you'll help to create a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment for children, to support their care, play, learning and development. You’ll assist educational activities to support their continued learning.
You’ll provide care such as feeding, changing nappies, and setting routines. You’ll encourage socialising and help children discover new interests. You’ll also prepare children to enter the next level of care into school.
About the workplace
Day nurseries and crèches provide an essential service to working parents by offering childcare to children from birth. The terms day nursery, day care and crèche are used interchangeably to describe the place where parents send their children to be taken care of during work hours in the day.
Getting started as a Day Care Practitioner
To be successful in this role, you’ll need:
- a caring and patient nature
- good communication, including verbal and listening skills
- imagination and creativity
- to make sure every child is included
- to be able to take direction from other staff
- confidence around children and adults.
You might want to consider the Introduction to childcare programme that covers the essentials you need to start working in childcare.
Required Qualifications
Find the required or recommended qualifications for this role with Social Care Wales.
