Job Details
- Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 30 to 40 hours per week
- Education:
- Expérience:
Education
- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
Work site environment
Work setting
- Employer's home
- Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is NOT a condition of employment
Tasks
- Change diapers
- Assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Shop for food and household supplies
- Travel with family on trips and assist with child supervision and housekeeping duties
- 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
- 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
- Prepare infants and children for rest periods
- 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
- Cook
Security and safety
Transportation / travel information
- Public transportation is available
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Physically demanding
- Work under pressure
- Attention to detail
Weight handling
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Time management
- Patience
Screening questions
- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
Experience
- 1 year to less than 2 years
Support for newcomers and refugees
- Assists with immediate settlement needs of newcomers and/or refugees (e.g., housing, transportation, storage, childcare, winter clothing, etc.)
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
Support for Indigenous people
- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people
Support for mature workers
- Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
- Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers
Supports for visible minorities
- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (e.g., anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)