Babysitter Personal Care Workers

The importance of a clean, sanitary workspace for example through use of hand disinfectant and sanitizer, in order to minimise infection risk between colleagues or when working with children.

Temporarily taking care of a child for a small remuneration.

Tend to children by feeding them, dressing them, and, if necessary, regularly changing their diapers in a sanitary manner.

Use verbal and non-verbal communication and communicate through writing, electronic means, or drawing. Adapt your communication to children and young people`s age, needs, characteristics, abilities, preferences, and culture.

Inform children`s parents of the activities planned, program`s expectations and children`s individual progress.

Make filled and open sandwiches, paninis and kebabs.

Keep the children under supervision for a certain period of time, ensuring their safety at all times.

Help children with school tasks. Assist the child with the interpretation of the assignment and the solutions. Make sure the child studies for tests and exams.

Engage in activities for enjoyment, tailored to children of a certain age. Be creative and improvise to amuse children with activities such as tinkering, sports or board games.

Get ready for serving snacks and sandwiches or heat up ready-made bar products if requested.

The specific methods and practices used in providing care to people with physical, intellectual and learning disabilities.

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Supporting People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People in Health and Social Care

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The symptoms, characteristics, and treatment of diseases and disorders that often affect children, such as the measles, chickenpox, asthma, the mumps, and head lice.

The procedures required to take care of children up to the age of 1, such as feeding, bathing, soothing, and diapering the baby.

The discipline that concerns the theory and practice of education including the various instructional methods for educating individuals or groups.

Evaluate the different aspects of development needs of children and young people.

Encourage and facilitate the development of children's natural curiosity and social and language abilities through creative and social activities such as storytelling, imaginative play, songs, drawing, and games.

Clean rooms by cleaning glasswork and windows, polishing furniture, vacuuming carpets, scrubing hard floors, and removing garbage.

Disinfect surfaces in accordance with sanitary standards.

Liaise via telephone by making and answering calls in a timely, professional and polite manner.

Dispose waste in accordance with legislation, thereby respecting environmental and company responsibilities.

Make sure that pets are given appropriate food and water on time.

Ensure proper handling, storage and disposal of cleaning chemicals in accordance with regulations.

Press and iron in order to shape or flatten textiles giving them their final finishing appearance. Iron by hand or with steam pressers.

Promote the prevention, early detection, and management of children`s problems, focusing on developmental delays and disorders, behavioural problems, functional disabilities, social stresses, mental disorders including depression, and anxiety disorders.

Administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation or first aid in order to provide help to a sick or injured person until they receive more complete medical treatment.

Provide an environment that supports and values children and helps them to manage their own feelings and relationships with others.

Help children and young people to assess their social, emotional and identity needs and to develop a positive self image, enhance their self esteem and improve their self reliance.

Apply cooking techniques including grilling, frying, boiling, braising, poaching, baking or roasting.

Apply food preparation techniques including the selecting, washing, cooling, peeling, marinating, preparing of dressings and cutting of ingredients.

Cleanse, irrigate, probe, debride, pack and dress wounds.