Family Day Care Educator
What the work is
Provides support for children's learning, development and wellbeing in a family day care service, including following an approved learning framework.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Designs, plans, implements and evaluates an educational program based on an approved learning framework
- Documents children's progress, learning, wellbeing and development
- Develops and maintains positive relationships with children and families
- Supports the daily routines, transitions and programs of children
- Complies with family day care service policies and national and/or state-based legislation
- Manages financial resources for the family day care service
- May transport children to and from the family day care 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 431232, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.