Job description for Mothers Help

[slipperandpjsmum]

Does anyone have a job description for a mothers help that they could share with me please?

Are you looking for a full contract? There are specimen contracts for a nanny which could be modified. See www.nannyjob.co.uk

Consider what things you would expect them to do... the duties. Things like doing cooking, washing clothes, changing beds. Also put in something about helping out on occasion with entertaining the children.

Mothers helps jobs are so versatile that really it could be anything - there isn't a standard job description.

A good starting point, as nick said, is to note down everything you want the mother's help to do. Generally they'll do some childcare (maybe some sole charge depending on experience), cooking, cleaning (although not huge amounts of heavy cleaning), laundry/ironing and running errands - basically anything mothers would do.

It's a good idea to have set jobs though, rather than a list of things they might need to do, so they can come in and get on with it and you'll find some people are better at certain parts of the job description so it's worth being a bit flexible. If they're rubbish at ironing then there's no point them doing it, they could do extra cooking or cleaning then.

You're the employer so you can put anything childcare/housework related in the contract. What do you need help with?
Bear in mind that your needs may change as the child(ren) get older so make sure that the job description is flexible.