Professional Mother's Help Services - Childcare and Household Support

1. My Development

2. Who is a Mothers’ Help • Our Mothers’ Helps are professionals who have completed key childcare courses and online training and assessment. They work alongside a stay at home motherand/or a professional family as they have enough experience to be left in charge of your children while you are at work. Mother's Helps also work well for parents who work from home or parents who work part-time and wants help with housework and childcare combined. • They also ensure the safety of children left in their care by protecting them from both physical, emotional and sexual abuse; feeding them and supporting with home work or learning activities. • They support parents with school runs by dropping off and picking up children in their care to school on time.

3. Roles and Responsibilities We understand that different families have different needs, so we try to meet every clients’ need as much as we can. Our Mothers’ help are aware that they need to undertake the following duties: • Cooking – is an essential skill required. You will be required to cook for the children only except agreed otherwise with family. • Childcare – This is a must have skill, you must be caring, loving and always show empathy. You are expected to tend to the children and exercise patience at all times when dealing with them and correct gently. • Playing with the kids – You must be someone who doesn’t mind getting covered in paint or dirt. • Washing & Laundry – You will be required to wash and iron for the children only. It is also your duty to ensure that their cupboards are arranged nicely and cloths folded away properly.

4. Roles and Responsibilities • Cleaning – This is a key part of your job as most working families like to come back to a clean house. General house cleaning will be required except told otherwise by the family. • Shopping – Some families might require you to go shopping for food and general house needs with them or on your own, you will be shown, inducted properly and travel cost incurred will be covered by the family. • School Runs – Dropping and picking up children from school will be required for families who have children going to school full time or part time. Its important that children are dropped at school and picked up from school at the right time to avoid lateness/penalties. • Helping with Homework/Learning activities – You are to ensure homework from school are done on time, check the children’s bags on a daily basis, give all corresponding letter to parents to action and ensure all homework books are put back in the school pack in preparation for the next day

5. Things To Remember As A Live – in Mothers Help • You are with a designated family to provide child care and support the family with household chores • You are not a friend or relative of the family and they are not obliged to take you with them when going out or on holiday, but if they choose to invite you, then you should see it as a privilege and be grateful. • Not everyone is comfortable in the job they have accepted to do so please do not be over expectant and unrealistic when asking for certain things. • You need to be physically and mentally strong to babysit other people’s children, so you need a lot of compassion and patience when dealing with younger children

6. Safeguarding Children’s welfare is the most import thing to a parent and the society at large. Safeguarding is an act taken to care for vulnerable groups from harm. In this case children under the age of 18 are vulnerable and should be protected by the adult left in the duty of their care. • They should be protected from abuse, maltreatment and exploitation • You should avoid anything from hurting their health • Ensure they develop under harmless and effective care • Take action to make sure they have the best outcomes in life All children are covered by child protection and safeguarding guidance and legislation Section 10(8) of the Children Act 2004, which requires each person or organisation to which the section 10 duty applies to have regard to any guidance given to them by the Secretary of State

7. Safeguarding • As a person looking after children you have a duty of care to report any thing you notice is not right, even when you are not sure but your instincts tells you. Protecting children is everyone's business. • You are required to speak to the child/children you are caring for, listen to what they have to say and take their views seriously; work with them and their families collaboratively when deciding their needs • Ensure their environment is safe and habitable. All concerns should be discussed with the family and if no improvement or adherence then report it to the agency that placed you with the family.

8. Personal & General Hygiene • As a care giver you need to ensure personal hygiene by constantly washing your hands. • Good practice includes bathing and brushing daily. • Washing clothes helps keep them free of disease-causing germs • Covering the nose and mouth when sneezing helps stop the spread of germs.

9. First Aid Every one should know a few first aid skills to help save someone’s life. Stopping heavy bleeding from a cut or a nose bleed.

10. First Aid Management of Bleeding • Apply hard pressure on the wound, and keep this up until the patient receives medical treatment. • Press with a sterile cloth or just use your hand, if nothing else is available. • Put a bandage on the wound if possible. ... • Do not remove the soaked bandages, but place another on top if necessary.

11. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Process Position Your Hands Correctly Make sure you are confident and competent at caring out CPR on a child to avoid things going wrong, there by causing more damage than good. How To Give a CPR to a Child : • Position your hand Interlock fingers • Give chest compressions • Open the airway • Give rescue breaths • Watch chest fall • Repeat chest compressions and rescue breaths. It should be between 1/3 and 1/2. Make sure your hands are placed correctly upon the child's chest. Press down on the child's chest so that it compresses about one third to one half the depth of the chest. Give 30 chest compressions

12. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Process CPR can keep oxygenated blood flowing to the brain and other vital organs until more definitive medical treatment can restore a normal heart rhythm • Press down on the child's chest so that it compresses about one third to one half the depth of the chest. Push hard and fast on the centre of the chest. Give 30 chest compressions. • Blood circulation is restored with this technique.

13. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Process Airway: Open The Airway If you're trained in CPR and you've performed 30 chest compressions, open the person's airway using the head-tilt, chin-lift exercise. Put your palm on the person's forehead and gently tilt the head back. Then with the other hand, gently lift the chin forward to open the airway.