Housekeeper and Cook (Family Home) – Immediate Start

You'll keep a guesthouse with family quarters in Randburg clean, calm and running smoothly for the family. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

Home base is a guesthouse with family quarters on the Randburg side of Gauteng. Shifts rotate, so you'll need to be flexible about days and nights.

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

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

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

• Say plainly what you can and cannot do: cooking, ironing, childcare, driving. It avoids arguments later and families like honesty.
• Families hire on trust, so make references your strongest part. Write the employer's name, suburb, years worked and phone number for each one.