Domestic Worker with Elderly Care

Cleaning, laundry and a hand with the kids: that is the week in a guesthouse with family quarters in Durban Central. It's a practical job: you'll see what you got done before you go home.

Home base is a guesthouse with family quarters on the Durban Central side of KwaZulu-Natal.

• Get children ready for school and supervise homework in the afternoon
• Clean bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and living areas on a weekly rotation
• Dust furniture, ornaments and skirting boards
• Water indoor plants and feed pets
• Change bed linen and make beds
• Prepare simple meals or school lunches when asked
• Help an elderly person with meals, medication reminders and light walking

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

• Experience caring for an older person
• A driver's licence for school lifts

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

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