Domestic Helper (3 Days a Week)

Cleaning, laundry and a hand with the kids: that is the week in a family home in Vanderbijlpark. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

This post is in Vanderbijlpark (Gauteng). Please only apply if you can travel there daily. Start date: as soon as possible for the right person.

• Clean bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and living areas on a weekly rotation
• Get children ready for school and supervise homework in the afternoon
• Prepare simple meals or school lunches when asked
• Help an elderly person with meals, medication reminders and light walking
• Wash, hang, iron and fold the household's laundry
• Dust furniture, ornaments and skirting boards

• South African ID or valid work permit
• Good with children and patient
• Neat, organised and able to work without being supervised
• Willing to follow the family's house rules and routines
• Able to handle a full-day physical routine
• Able to speak and understand basic English

• Cooking experience with family meals
• Basic first aid or child CPR course
• Experience caring for an older person

• Paid annual leave and public holidays as the law requires
• Own room with bathroom for live-in posts
• Written contract with fixed hours and duties
• Registered for UIF and COIDA by the employer

• Families hire on trust, so make references your strongest part. Write the employer's name, suburb, years worked and phone number for each one.
• Ask for a written contract and to be registered for UIF. Good employers expect the question and it protects you.