Family Day Care Coordinator
What the work is
Leads and manages a team of Family Day Care Educators in regulated home-based education and care services.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Monitors, supports and supervises Family Day Care Educators
- Leads the development and implementation of educational programs that are based on an approved learning framework
- Works in partnership with families, community members and external agencies to promote the safety, health and wellbeing of children
- Maintains records and documentation of the family day care service
- Coordinates the recruitment of service staff and their professional development
- Ensures compliance with service policies and national and/or state-based legislation
- Leads the day-to-day operational requirements of the service
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a family day care coordination office and the home-based services it supports. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- You visit a home and find children happily absorbed in a game the educator invented
- A new educator passes her first review and tells you how much she learned
- A parent says family day care felt like an extension of their own home
Hard days
- A home visit where you find something you must raise, with an educator you like
- Working out cover when an educator is suddenly unwell and families rely on her
- Compliance paperwork piled up on the day you wanted to be out visiting
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 431231, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.