Daycare Employee Handbook Template

Name: Daycare Employee Handbook Template
Brand: Sorted Templates
SKU: ST-0048
Price: 6.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Overview

When you hire your first assistant, the rules that lived in your head need to go on paper. This staff handbook holds 28 policies across 5 chapters, from pay and job basics to working with children, health and safety, and professional conduct.

It comes with the forms a director uses for each hire: an acknowledgment page, a new staff orientation checklist, a job description and a performance review. Edit the [brackets] with your pay periods, ratios and state rules, go through it with each new staff member and keep the signed copy in their file.

Expectations up front
Staff know the rules for pay, conduct and care before day one.
Onboarding made simple
An orientation checklist walks each new hire through their start.
Hire and review
A job description and a performance review template are included.
Signed for the file
An acknowledgment page records that each employee has read it.

What's inside

Employee Handbook
28 policies in 5 chapters
The 5 chapters
Welcome and at-will, job basics and pay, working with children, health and safety, professional conduct
Staff acknowledgment page
For each employee to sign
New staff orientation checklist
Everything to cover with a new hire
Job description template
Ready to edit for each role
Staff performance review
For regular check-ins with your team

How it works

1
Buy on Etsy, then download Word-Documents.zip from your Etsy Purchases page and unzip it.
2
Edit everything in [brackets]: pay periods, ratios and your state's rules.
3
Go through the handbook with each new hire and file the signed copy.

Good to know

Digital download: nothing is shipped
For use in your own child care business: please don't share or resell the templates
A template, not legal advice: check the rules where you live, or ask a lawyer.
Child care licensing rules differ by state: check your state's requirements and compare every policy with them

Questions

What goes in a daycare staff handbook?

Employment basics, pay, how staff work with children, health and safety, and professional conduct. This template covers those in 5 chapters with 28 policies.

Can I open it without Microsoft Word?

Yes. The files open in Word, Pages and Google Docs.

Will these policies match my state's licensing rules?

Not automatically. Licensing rules differ from state to state, so the places that depend on them are left in [brackets]. Check your state's requirements and edit each policy to match.

Is there a form for new staff orientation?

Yes. A new staff orientation checklist is included, along with a job description and a performance review.

How it's made: designed by Sorted Templates. We use AI tools to help draft text and lay out pages, and every page is reviewed and edited by us before it's listed. Lifestyle and mockup images may be AI-generated or AI-edited; the page previews show the actual files.