A New South Wales childcare worker has been sentenced to an 18-month Community Corrections Order for using "excessive force" on a child, resulting in a head injury.

The 24-year-old woman pleaded guilty in Bathurst local court last week, after being charged with recklessly wounding a four-year-old who was refusing to lie down.

In sentencing on Monday, Magistrate Gemma Slack-Smith said the worker had "failed in her duty of caring for a child", and that she would not be working in the childcare industry for the "foreseeable future".

"By using excessive force that resulted in a head injury with active bleeding, and continuing to restrain the child victim without recognising or responding to the injury, the accused acted in a manner that was reckless," the agreed facts of the case said.

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