Role Description

Skills required

You'll need:

• excellent communication skills
• the ability to work with children and their families in a sensitive and positive way
• creativity and imagination for game playing 
• planning and organisational skills
• IT skills

What you'll do

Your day-to-day tasks will include:

• planning and supervising activities like arts and crafts, music and cooking
• helping children to learn numeracy and language skills through games
• taking children on outings
• feeding and changing babies
• observing children and making notes to write reports
• making sure children are safe and well
• With experience, you could become a key worker for one or more children. You'll monitor their progress and share information about their development with parents or carers.