Child care worker jobs in Finland
Child care workers provide care for children when the parents or family members are unavailable. They look after the children's basic needs and help or supervise them during play. Child care workers can work for preschools, daycare centres, childcare agencies or individual families.
Child care worker – how much is the pay in Finland?
What the trade paid in 2024
| Median | 15.12 €/h |
|---|---|
| Bottom tenth | 12.15 €/h |
| Top tenth | 17.37 €/h |
| Employees | 48,802 |
Pay by sex, 2024
| Sex | Median | Employees |
|---|---|---|
| Women | 15.15 €/h | 45,845 |
| Men | 14.69 €/h | 2,957 |
Child care worker - Which skills are essential?
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.
Ensure proper handling, storage and disposal of cleaning chemicals in accordance with regulations.
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.
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.
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.
Tend to children by feeding them, dressing them, and, if necessary, regularly changing their diapers in a sanitary manner.
Inform children`s parents of the activities planned, program`s expectations and children`s individual progress.
Keep the children under supervision for a certain period of time, ensuring their safety at all times.
Child care worker - Which skills are useful but not essential?
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.
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.
Cleanse, irrigate, probe, debride, pack and dress wounds.
Administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation or first aid in order to provide help to a sick or injured person until they receive more complete medical treatment.
The procedures required to take care of children up to the age of 1, such as feeding, bathing, soothing, and diapering the baby.
Evaluate the different aspects of development needs of children and young people.
Make filled and open sandwiches, paninis and kebabs.
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.
The specific methods and practices used in providing care to people with physical, intellectual and learning disabilities.
Dispose waste in accordance with legislation, thereby respecting environmental and company responsibilities.
Support children who have experienced trauma, identifying their needs and working in ways that promote their rights, inclusion and well being.
The symptoms, characteristics, and treatment of diseases and disorders that often affect children, such as the measles, chickenpox, asthma, the mumps, and head lice.
Clean rooms by cleaning glasswork and windows, polishing furniture, vacuuming carpets, scrubing hard floors, and removing garbage.
Recognise, understand and share emotions and insights experienced by another.
The discipline that concerns the theory and practice of education including the various instructional methods for educating individuals or groups.
Temporarily taking care of a child for a small remuneration.
Provide an environment that supports and values children and helps them to manage their own feelings and relationships with others.
Interact, relate and communicate with individuals from a variety of different cultures, when working in a healthcare environment.
Get ready for serving snacks and sandwiches or heat up ready-made bar products if requested.
Maintain a temperate mental state and effective performance under pressure or adverse circumstances.