About this role
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
Work setting: Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is NOT a condition of employment.
Work in employer's/client's home.
Tasks
- Assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents.
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties.
- Shop for food and household supplies.
- Wash, iron and press clothing and household linens.
- Discipline children according to the methods requested by the parents.
- Instruct children in personal hygiene and social development.
- Keep records of daily activities and health information regarding children.
- Maintain a safe and healthy environment in the home.
- Organize, activities such as games and outings for children.
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals.
- Supervise and care for children.
- Take children to and from school and to appointments.
- Tend to emotional well-being of children.
- Help children with homework.
- Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses : Emergency child care first aid and CPR.
Target audience: Children. Experience with special needs children: Children with learning disabilities.
- Security and safety: Criminal record check.
- Driver's validity licence check.
- Reference required.
- Transportation/travel information: Valid driver's licence.
- Personal suitability: Client focus.
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Flexibility.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Time management.
- Patience.
- Honesty.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Flexible hours.
- Morning.
- Experience: 5 years or more.
- Employment terms options: Day.
Support for persons with disabilities: Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities . Support for newcomers and refugees: Does not require Canadian work experience. Support for youths: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth. Support for mature workers: Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination . Supports for visible minorities: Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.).