Childcare Job Descriptions

Childcare Job Descriptions Template

Staffing can be a challenge in any business, but it’s especially difficult for the childcare industry. Directors are looking to find qualified, responsible candidates who can be trusted to care for young children and help them flourish.

Childcare center owners know that the most important part of their business is not their curriculum, their meal plan, or their facility: It’s their staff. But beyond standard duties and qualifications and credentials like a high school diploma, associate’s degree, or bachelor’s degree, or experience in early childhood education, it’s important to include everything you need in a staff member. Things to think about when hiring caregivers or a child development associate may include communication skills, first aid, a background check, work with other childcare providers, experience working with babies in diapers, experience planning or guiding playtime curriculum and daily activities, assessing a child’s progress, English language skills, solid decision-making skills, preparing meals, problem-solving skills, specific educational requirements over and above the standard, ability to assess children’s progress, other experience in daycare centers as a daycare worker, and interpersonal skills.

Hiring quality childcare staff starts with a job posting. A well-written childcare worker job description is one of the best gatekeepers a Director can have during the hiring process. If done correctly, it will encourage only the most highly qualified candidates to apply; if done poorly, you will have to sort through a larger mix of candidates — or worse, those best-suited for the job won’t apply for it. 

Use this FREE EDITABLE childcare center job description template when putting together new job postings!

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