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Provide care for 13 months and 2.7 years old children in employer's home.
Applicant must have 1-2 years experience
Child care related course considered an asset
Rate is $12.50/hr. Overtime rates 1.5 times the regular pay for hours worked over 44 hours/week.
Some flexibility is required with start and end times.
Child abuse registry check and Criminal record check required
Ideally have:
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
Benefits include 3 weeks paid vacation as per Saskatchewan Labour Standards
Optional accommodation available at no charge on live in basis.
Please Note: This is not a condition of employment
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- First Aid Certificate
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
Specific Skills
- Travel with family on trips and assist with child supervision and housekeeping duties
- Tend to emotional well-being of children
- Take children to and from school and to appointments
- Supervise and care for children
- Sterilize bottles, prepare formulas and change diapers for infants
- Read to children
- Prepare craft materials and assist children to use them
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- 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
- Discipline children according to the methods requested by the parents
- Bathe, dress and feed infants and children
- Assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents
- Prepare infants and children for rest periods
- Help children with homework
Work Location Information
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Staff accommodation available
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Child abuse registry check