Home Childcare Providers
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Job description
These individuals provide care for children. They look after their well-being and their physical and social development. They help parents with childcare and perform household chores. This group includes home-based childcare providers and foster parents. These individuals work at home or at the children’s home and are either self-employed or work through childcare agencies.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Climatic conditions
Main tasks
Home-Based Childcare Providers
- Watch and take care of children at home.
- Provide a variety of childcare services (feed them, dress them, bathe them, etc.).
- Plan, prepare, and serve children’s meals.
- Perform housekeeping duties.
- Supervise children’s activities (meals, naps, etc.) as directed by the parents.
- Ensure the children’s safety, social development, and emotional well-being.
- Discipline children by using the means indicated by the parents.
- Organize and participate in activities (games, crafts, reading, outings, etc.).
- Accompany children to school or appointments.
- Keep a record of each child’s daily activities and health status as needed.
Foster Parents
- Raise children as family members, usually on a temporary basis.
- Consult with foster care supervisors as required.
- Operate childcare programs according to established guidelines.
Advancement and mobility
- There is some mobility among the occupations in this group.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $16.10
- Median
- $16.10
- Maximum
- $20.00
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
7,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 93.9% Female
- 6.1% Male
Not available.
- 93.9% Female
- 6.1% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$23,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 62457% of jobs
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NAICS 8127% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 62314% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 561% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 451% of jobs
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Others0% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 62457% of jobs
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NAICS 8127% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 62314% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 561% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 451% of jobs
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Others0% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Secondary school diploma
Sometimes required
- A Class 5 driver’s licence is often required.
- Training in childcare or a related field may be required.
- Experience in childcare or home economics may be required.
- Demonstrated ability to perform the work is usually required.
- First aid certification is often required.
- First aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training is often required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Result evaluation
- Service oriented
- Social perception
- Active listening
- Coordination
- Critical thought
- Oral expression
- Active learning
- Reading comprehension
- Teaching
- Written expression
- Judgment and decision-making
- Learning strategies
- Solving complex problems
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Written comprehension
- Deductive reasoning
- Distance vision
- Speech recognition
- Selective attention
- Speech clarity
- Classification
- Written expression
- Idea generation
- Inductive reasoning
- Information organization
- Near vision
- Time sharing
Knowledge and attributes
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Honesty
- Sense of initiative
- Vitality
- Creativity
- Friendliness
- Assiduity and punctuality
- Respect others
- Availability
- Open-mindedness
Interests
- Assist and advise
- Teach or educate
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
Official name of the NOC 44100
Home child care providers
Job titles
- Parent's helper
- Home child care provider
- Babysitter
- Foster parent
- Child care provider - private home
- Child care live-in caregiver
- Governess - child care
- Family child care provider
- Babysitting caregiver
- Kinship care provider
- Babysitter - shopping centre
- Babysitter - fitness centre
- Au pair
- Foster mother
- Foster father
- Child minder
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
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