From social services manager to child day care centre manager
51 of the 72 essential skills of a child day care centre manager are already essential for a social services manager — about 71% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 51
- skills carry over
- 21
- would be new
- 71%
- of the target job covered
- 72
- essential skills of a child day care centre manager
What a child day care centre manager does
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.
What carries over
51 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advocate for others
- advocate for social service users
- analyse community needs
- apply decision making within social work
- apply holistic approach within social services
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- build business relationships
- build helping relationship with social service users
- carry out social work research
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- comply with legislation in social services
- consider economic criteria in decision making
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- customer service
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- evaluate staff performance in social work
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- implement marketing strategies
- influence policy makers on social service issues
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain records of work with service users
- manage budgets for social services programs
- manage ethical issues within social services
- manage fundraising activities
- manage government funding
- manage social crisis
- manage staff
- manage stress in the work place
- monitor regulations in social services
- perform public relations
- prevent social problems
and 11 more
What would be new
21 skillsEssential for a child day care centre manager and not for a social services manager. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- address problems critically
- apply organisational techniques
- apply problem solving in social service
- business management principles
- child protection
- company policies
- contribute to the safeguarding of children
- coordinate care
- determine child welfare
- establish daily priorities
- evaluate social work program's impact
- implement care programmes for children
- manage health and safety
- manage health and safety standards
- meet standards of practice in social services
- perform risk analysis
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- psychology
- social justice
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
Other moves from social services manager
2 roles- rescue centre manager52 skills in common
- public housing manager50 skills in common
← social services managerchild day care centre manager →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a child day care centre manager?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.