How to become a child or After school care centre worker
Official title: Child/After school care centre worker
Also called: After school care centre worker, Child care assistant, Child care centre worker, Child care helper, Child care provider, Child care worker, Child care assistant, Child care provider
Child/After school care centre worker provides care for children when the parents or family members are unavailable. He/she looks after the children’s basic needs and helps or supervises them during play and study.
Main tasks
- Assisting children to wash, dress and feed themselves
- Taking children to and from school or outdoors for recreation
- Playing games with children, or entertaining them by reading or storytelling
- Assisting in the preparation of materials and equipment for children’s education and recreational activities
- Managing children’s and youth’s behaviours and guiding their social development
- Disciplining children and recommending or initiating other measures to control behaviour, such as caring for their own clothing and picking up toys and books
- Observing and monitoring children’s play activities
- Keeping records on individual children or youth, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered
Ways in
- Apprenticeship: Work-study diploma. Related ITE work-study diplomas: Work-Study Diploma in Community Care Integration & Management. You are employed by a company and study at ITE at the same time. Peernovo matched these from course names.
- Polytechnic or ITE: ITE course (Nitec or Higher Nitec). Related ITE courses: Higher Nitec in Community Care & Social Services. Peernovo matched these from course names; ITE does not publish which jobs each course leads to.; Polytechnic diploma. Related diplomas: Diploma in Integrated Community Care (Republic Polytechnic). Peernovo matched these from course names; polytechnics do not publish which jobs each course leads to.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Median pay: $31,776 a year. The middle half earn $21,000 to $52,476 a year.
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a child or After school care centre worker?
Ways in include: ITE course (Nitec or Higher Nitec); Polytechnic diploma; Work-study diploma.
How much does a child or After school care centre worker earn in Singapore?
Median full-time pay is $31,776 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $21,000 to $52,476.
Will AI change the work of a child or After school care centre worker?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026