Home Child Care Provider

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
- or equivalent experience
- **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**:

- 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
- Wash, iron and press clothing and household linens
- 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
- Help children with homework
- **Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Emergency child care first aid and CPR
- **Target audience**:

- Supervise and care for multi-aged group of children
- **Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check
- **Transportation/travel information**:

- Public transportation is available
- **Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Work under pressure
- Attention to detail
- **Weight handling**:

- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
- **Personal suitability**:

- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Time management
- Patience
- Honesty
- **Screening questions**:

- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
- Are you currently a student?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- Do you have the equipment you need to work from home (like internet and a workspace)?
- Do you live near the job location?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
- What is your current field of study?
- What is your current level of study?
- **Health benefits**:

- Paramedical services coverage
- **Support for persons with disabilities**:

- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities 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.)
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
- Offers mentorship programs that pair newcomers and/or refugees with experienced employees
- **Support for youths**:

- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
- **Support for Indigenous people**:

- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers
- Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations
- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
- **Support for mature workers**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for mature workers
- Offers phased retirement options that allow mature workers to gradually reduce their workload (for example: flexible or reduced work hours, part time employment, project-based or seasonal work, etc.)
- Provides workspace accommodations, such as age-appropriate ergonomic considerations, to meet the physical needs of mature workers (for example: adjustable desks and chairs, accessible parking, etc.)
- **Supports for visible minorities**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
- Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities