nanny

Dominic Scavetta; Hamilton; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local family in Hamilton, Ontario, seeks a caregiver for their children. Responsibilities include supervising and caring for multi-aged children, preparing nutritious meals, and maintaining a safe environment. Candidates should have a secondary school graduation certificate and a focus on client care. This role offers a permanent work term with flexible hours.

Benefits

Optional accommodation available at no charge

Travel expenses paid by employer

Qualifications

• Experience: 1 to less than 7 months.
• Criminal record check required.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and care for children.
• Prepare and serve nutritious meals.
• Maintain a safe and healthy environment.

Skills

Client focus

Efficient interpersonal skills

Flexibility

Judgement

Reliability

Time management

Patience

Honesty

Education

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Job description

Overview

Work Term: Permanent; Work Language: English; Hours: 40 hours per week; Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate; Experience: 1 to less than 7 months.

Work setting

• Employer's home
• 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

• Change diapers
• Assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents
• Perform light housekeeping and cleaning 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
• 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

Target audience

• Supervise and care for multi-aged group of children

Security and safety

• Criminal record check

Transportation / travel information

• Public transportation is available
• Travel expenses paid by employer

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Time management
• Patience
• Honesty

Support for persons with disabilities

• Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities

Support for newcomers and refugees

• Assists with immediate settlement needs of newcomers and / or refugees (for example : housing, transportation, storage, childcare, winter clothing, etc.)
• Recruits newcomers and / or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example : Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)

Support for youths

• Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment

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

Supports for visible minorities

• Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example : anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)