Domestic Worker (Live-Out, Weekdays)

A family in Ballito wants someone they can trust with their retired couple's cottage and their children. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

You'll be based at a retired couple's cottage in Ballito. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Clean bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and living areas on a weekly rotation
• Wash dishes and keep the kitchen tidy after meals
• Change bed linen and make beds
• Get children ready for school and supervise homework in the afternoon
• Water indoor plants and feed pets
• Help an elderly person with meals, medication reminders and light walking

• Neat, organised and able to work without being supervised
• Able to handle a full-day physical routine
• Willing to follow the family's house rules and routines
• Good with children and patient

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

• Registered for UIF and COIDA by the employer
• Transport money for live-out staff
• Paid annual leave and public holidays as the law requires

• Say plainly what you can and cannot do: cooking, ironing, childcare, driving. It avoids arguments later and families like honesty.
• Ask for a written contract and to be registered for UIF. Good employers expect the question and it protects you.