Childcare at Home in Halifax
Halifax, NS
Posted 30+ days ago
Job Details:
$21.50 / hour
Contract
Entry Level
Benefits:
Flexible Work
Overview
- Work Term: Temporary
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years Work setting
- Employer's home
- Work in employer's/client's home Tasks
- Assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- 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
- Supervise and care for children
- Tend to emotional well-being of children Experience with special needs children
- Autistic children
- Children with an intellectual disability
- Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or attention deficit disorder (ADD) Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Reference required
- Vulnerable sector check Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Handling heavy loads
- Attention to detail Weight handling
- Between 45 and 60 kg (100-132 lbs) Personal suitability
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Patience
- Honesty Screening questions
- Do you have experience working in this field?
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)? Employment terms options
- Flexible hours 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
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth 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.)
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