Work setting

• Employer's home
• Work in employer's/client's home

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Change diapers
• Follow parents’ lead with toilet training
• Assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents
• Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
• 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
• 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
• Cook

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Emergency child care first aid and CPR
• First Aid Certificate

Experience and specialization

Experience with special needs children

• Autistic children

Additional information

Security and safety

• Criminal record check
• Vulnerable sector check

Transportation/travel information

• Willing to travel
• Valid driver's licence

Personal suitability

• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Patience
• Honesty