Child Caregiver

**Children's Ages**:

- 3 years
- Toddler to pre-school (1 - 3 years)

**Additional Skills**:

- Wash, iron and press clothing and household linens
- Travel with family on trips and assist with child supervision and housekeeping duties
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents

**Weight Handling**:

- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

**Work Setting**:

- Employer's home
- Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is NOT a condition of employment

**Specific Skills**:

- Tend to emotional well-being of children
- Take children to and from school and to appointments
- Supervise and care for children
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals
- Organize, activities such as games and outings for children
- Maintain a safe and healthy environment in the home
- Instruct children in personal hygiene and social development
- Bathe, dress and feed infants and children
- Prepare infants and children for rest periods

**Target Audience**:

- Supervise and care for multi-aged group of children

**Security and Safety**:

- Criminal record check

**Work Site Environment**:

- Non-smoking
- Scent free

**Transportation/Travel Information**:

- Travel expenses paid by employer

**Work Location Information**:

- Work in employer's/client's home

**Personal Suitability**:

- Initiative
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Excellent oral communication
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Organized

**Other benefits**:

- Transportation provided by employer