Description
Terms of employment: Full-time and live-in;
Salary: $10.71/hour less $250.00/month room and board.
Skills requirements:Post-secondary education is an asset.
Experience: 1-2 years training or relevant experience;
Work setting: Private home;
Contact information: (306) 244-1049
Working and living in our home, this position
requires the demonstrated ability to provide
nuturing and caring child care. Duties include,
dressing, playing with and feeding children,
performing light housekeeping, laundry and meal
preparation.
Hours are 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Skills and Abilities
Security and Safety
- Driving record check (abstract)
- Child abuse registry check
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Basic security clearance
Work Setting
- Employer's home
Experience with Special Needs Children
- Allergies
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
Essential Skills
- Critical thinking
- Decision making
- Working with others
- Oral communication
Specific Skills
- Help children with homework
- Prepare infants and children for rest periods
- Assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents
- Bathe, dress and feed infants and children
- Discipline children according to the methods requested by the parents
- Instruct children in personal hygiene and social development
- Maintain a safe and healthy environment in the home
- Organize, activities such as games and outings for children
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals
- Prepare craft materials and assist children to use them
- Read to children
- Supervise and care for children
- Take children to and from school and to appointments
- Tend to emotional well-being of children
- Travel with family on trips and assist with child supervision and housekeeping duties
Children'S Ages
- School age (6 - 12 years)
- Toddler to pre-school (1 - 3 years)
Work Location Information
- Relocation costs covered by employer
- Work in employer's/client's home
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
- First Aid Certificate