Where a child day care worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a child day care worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Child day care workers provide social services to children and their families in order to improve their social and psychological functioning. They aim to maximise family's well-being by caring of children during the day.
Also known as childcare worker, child caregiver, childcarer, daycare worker, children and families care worker, nursery nurse.
Service and sales workers 74 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: child care social worker, 72%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A child day care worker needs 73 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- child protection services
- assist children with special needs in education settings assisting and caring
- assist social service users in formulating complaints assisting and caring
- determine child welfare assisting and caring
- encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities assisting and caring
- monitor service users' health information skills
- refer service users to community resources assisting and caring
- supervise children assisting and caring
- support service users in developing skills assisting and caring
- support service users to use technological aids assisting and caring
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a child day care worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- care home worker 80% covered · difficulty 36.2
- disability support worker 80% covered · difficulty 36.2
- housing support worker 80% covered · difficulty 36.2
- residential home adult care worker 80% covered · difficulty 36.2
- residential home older adult care worker 80% covered · difficulty 36.2
- child day care centre manager 65% covered · difficulty 54.7
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Child day care worker is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a child day care worker’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.