CHILD CARE WORKER RESUME EXAMPLE

Updated: Aug 11, 2024 - The Child Care Worker leads and directs student care under the guidance of a Unit Supervisor, ensuring that all essential needs are met according to the policies and guidelines. This role includes instructing students on appropriate behavioral, health, hygiene, and personal habits, facilitating family visits with respect, and assisting with virtual preschool activities. Additionally, the worker prepares healthy meals, engages in development-promoting activities, and manages preschool drop-offs while supporting the ACoRN treatment approach focused on trauma awareness and student rehabilitation.

Tips for Child Care Worker Skills and Responsibilities on a Resume

1. Child Care Worker, Little Steps Daycare, Plano, TX

Job Summary: 

  • Looking after the children's needs, welfare, development and health and safety
  • Putting the children to bed every night, bathing the children, brush teeth, etc.
  • Take responsibility for homework, and preparing food
  • Collecting the children from school
  • Take responsibility for diary management of the calendars
  • Organizing arts and crafts plus alternative activities and play
  • Ensuring the playroom is kept neat at all times and proactively ensuring the bedrooms are also kept neat
  • Coordinating with the live-in Nanny as well as shopping for the children’s needs
  • Working closely with the mother on social and academic development for the children
  • Working closely with the Private PA for scheduling and packing


Skills on Resume: 

  • Childcare Expertise (Hard Skills)
  • Routine Management (Hard Skills)
  • Academic Support (Hard Skills)
  • School Pick-up (Hard Skills)
  • Calendar Management (Hard Skills)
  • Organizational Skills (Hard Skills)
  • Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Communication and Coordination (Soft Skills)

2. Child Care Worker, Bright Beginnings Child Center, Sarasota, FL

Job Summary: 

  • Help maintain parent's schedules and routines
  • Assist with bottle prep and feeding
  • Assist with meal planning, prep, and feeding (when developmentally appropriate)
  • Maintain diaper changing stations
  • Maintain child's laundry (wash, fold, and put away)
  • Able to assess and help reach developmentally appropriate milestones
  • Plan/facilitate developmentally appropriate play-based learning
  • Plan/facilitate developmentally appropriate outdoor play
  • Plan/facilitate developmentally appropriate outings
  • Maintain and organize children's spaces (bedroom, play areas, and eating areas)


Skills on Resume: 

  • Routine Management (Soft Skills)
  • Childcare Assistance (Hard Skills)
  • Hygiene and Care (Hard Skills)
  • Laundry Management (Hard Skills)
  • Developmental Assessment (Hard Skills)
  • Play-based Learning (Hard Skills)
  • Outdoor Activities (Hard Skills)
  • Organizational Skills (Soft Skills)

3. Child Care Worker, Kids Adventure Learning Center, Fargo, ND

Job Summary: 

  • Provide leadership and Supervision (room lead)
  • Ensure quality childcare in the program and assist with the implementation of Licensing and Accreditation Standards.
  • Setting up inclusive, equitable and responsive environments with consideration to time, space, materials and participation.
  • Ensure the safety and welfare of each child and support staff
  • Treat children with respect, compassion and honor established relationships while encouraging new ones
  • Ensure that proper child guidance methods are used, communicated and enforced.
  • Maintain all appropriate records and documentation, and ensure that it is complete and up to date
  • Ensures telephone and mail contact between family or other identified supportive adults following the individual service plan and program rules and standards.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Leadership and Supervision (Hard Skills)
  • Quality Childcare Assurance (Hard Skills)
  • Creating Inclusive Environments (Hard Skills)
  • Child Safety and Welfare (Hard Skills)
  • Respectful and Compassionate Interaction (Soft Skills)
  • Effective Child Guidance (Hard Skills)
  • Record Keeping and Documentation (Hard Skills)
  • Family Communication and Engagement (Soft Skills)

4. Child Care Worker, Sunny Skies Childcare, Eugene, OR

Job Summary: 

  • Support children with a philosophy of building strengths and supporting challenges that meet diverse needs.
  • Provide daily routines and care that age appropriate and allow choices about their activities, fostering independence.
  • Observe and monitor children’s play activities.
  • Organize and participate in recreational activities such as games and reading.
  • Document daily activities, daily habits, sleeping, eating, toileting, social skills and emotional well-being.
  • Assist in preparing food for children, serving, and feeding meals and refreshments to children.
  • Perform housekeeping duties such as cleaning and dish-washing after meal preparation
  • Support children’s emotional and social development.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Child Development Knowledge (Hard Skills)
  • Daily Routine Management (Hard Skills)
  • Play Observation (Hard Skills)
  • Recreational Activity Organization (Hard Skills)
  • Documentation Skills (Hard Skills)
  • Food Preparation and Service (Hard Skills)
  • Housekeeping Duties (Hard Skills)
  • Emotional and Social Support (Soft Skills)

5. Child Care Worker, Happy Tots Preschool, Ashburn, VA

Job Summary: 

  • Safely supervise children and take care of their well-being.
  • Pick ups and drop offs to school
  • Attend and supervise organized child activities i.e. visits to playgrounds, parks and library visits.
  • Prepare all children's meals (breakfasts, lunches, snacks and dinners on weeknights).
  • Picking up ad-hoc items and keeping receipts for approved household expenses e.g. car fuel, children's snacks and entry fees.
  • Keep the car clean and tidy.
  • Child-related errands, and escort to various activities 
  • Communicate daily with parents
  • Household chores included vacuuming, washing and drying children's dishes, making their beds, changing their linen, cleaning the children’s bathroom and doing the children's laundry.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Child Supervision and Safety (Hard Skills)
  • Transportation Management (Hard Skills)
  • Meal Preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Organization and Documentation (Hard Skills)
  • Vehicle Maintenance (Hard Skills)
  • Childcare Errands (Hard Skills)
  • Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Household Chores (Hard Skills)

6. Child Care Worker, Growing Minds Academy, Missoula, MT

Job Summary: 

  • Leads and directs the care for students under the supervision of the Unit Supervisor by performing the duties assigned.
  • Ensures that all essential student needs are met on the unit each shift, according to guidelines.
  • Instruct students regarding desirable behavioral, health, hygiene, and personal habits as they apply to policy and procedure.
  • Facilitates scheduled student visits, and treats family and visitors with dignity and respect.
  • Assisting toddlers with virtual preschool daily.
  • Engaging in fun activities that coincide with preschool activities-which promotes development.
  • Preparing healthy, daily snacks and lunch.
  • Comfortable carpooling-(mainly dropping off to half-day preschool program at the end of the candidate's shift).
  • Demonstrates, through actions, support for the program’s ACoRN approach to treatment, and the attendant focus on awareness of the impact of trauma, developing social competencies, healthy attachment, self-regulation, and the student rehabilitation process.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Student Care and Supervision (Hard Skills)
  • Instruction and Guidance (Hard Skills)
  • Family and Visitor Interaction (Soft Skills)
  • Virtual Preschool Assistance (Hard Skills)
  • Activity Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Meal Preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Transportation and Safety (Hard Skills)
  • ACoRN Approach Familiarity (Soft Skills)
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