Child day care centre manager
Code 1341.2
Child day care centre managers provide social services to children and their families. They supervise and support child care workers and manage the childcare facilities. Child day care centre managers have the responsibility for strategic and operational leadership and management of staff teams and resources within and or across child care services.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- legal requirements in the social sector
- social justice
- company policies
- child protection
- psychology
- customer service
Skills and competences
- advocate for others
- advocate for social service users
- comply with legislation in social services
- analyse community needs
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- apply problem solving in social service
- apply holistic approach within social services
- accept own accountability
- communicate with social service users
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- coordinate care
- meet standards of practice in social services
- build business relationships
- implement care programmes for children
- implement marketing strategies
- perform public relations
- set organisational policies
- build helping relationship with social service users
- evaluate social work program's impact
- evaluate staff performance in social work
- assess social service users' situation
- manage fundraising activities
- manage government funding
- manage health and safety
- manage budgets for social services programs
- manage social crisis
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- maintain records of work with service users
- listen actively
- prevent social problems
- promote social change
- promote social awareness
- promote inclusion
- carry out social work research
- perform risk analysis
- review social service plan
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- monitor regulations in social services
- consider economic criteria in decision making
- apply decision making within social work
- work within communities
- use person-centred planning
Transversal competences
- address problems critically
- manage ethical issues within social services
- apply change management
- apply organisational techniques
- contribute to the safeguarding of children
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- show intercultural awareness
- establish daily priorities
- manage health and safety standards
- manage staff
- manage stress in the work place
- report on social development
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- business management principles
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- provide safeguarding to individuals
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- relate empathetically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- influence policy makers on social service issues
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences