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Desirable Traits of A Household Worker
Desirable Traits of A Household Worker
Household Worker is a person who works within the employer's household. Household
providing care for children and elderly dependents to cleaning and household maintenance
8. Flexible. Willing to change how he performs his job as his job’s responsibilities
change.
10. Punctual. It is the characteristic of being able to complete a required task before
Specifically, the following are the duties and responsibilities of a household worker:
1. Cleaning
The domestic worker will be assigned certain areas in the home or specific
tasks such as daily cleaning or deep cleaning. Daily chores involve cleaning floors,
furniture, windows, and all rooms. Doing laundry and ironing may be among duties as
A domestic worker may also be assigned the care of children from infant
through adolescent. In this instance, experience with children is needed. Caring for
infants and toddlers places more demands on the worker. Some responsibilities
involved in the child's care are bathing, diapering, feeding, supervising and
entertaining.
An elderly member of the household may also need a domestic worker's care.
This work may involve bathing, companionship, and assistance with doctor visits.
3. Cooking
Some domestic workers prepare the family's meals. When this is the case, it is
good to know the family's preferences. A thorough cookbook offering varied dishes will
help the domestic worker prepare tasty meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If the
worker does not cook on weekends, she sometimes prepares dishes ahead of time
4. Shopping
Shopping may be a task for the domestic worker. Duties could involve keeping
groceries stocked in the pantry and buying household items. The employer needs to
give a shopping budget and guidelines to follow. Some domestic workers are
responsible for shopping for family clothing and larger scale household items and
appliances.
5. Laundry
involve checking household laundry hampers, which may be in a central location in the
laundry room. To do laundry, the housekeeper separates whites, colors and delicate
apparel. When the clothing is dry, she removes it from the dryer to minimize wrinkles.
Clothes are then ironed and folded and placed back into the proper drawers and
closets.
6. Childcare
If there are small infants and toddlers in the house, the housekeeper may be
responsible for caring for them. It is important that the housekeeper is trained in first
aid and CPR with smaller children and is very attentive. Older children may be present
in the home after school hours. The housekeeper may have to pick the child up from
Aside from the specific tasks mention earlier, a household worker is expected to dispense
locker rooms, and other work areas so that health standards are met.
Empty wastebaskets, empty and clean ashtrays, and transport other trash and
cleaners.
necessary.
bathroom items.
sterilizers.
Sort clothing and other articles, load washing machines, and iron and fold dried
items.
Sort, count, and mark clean linens and store them in linen closets.
Assign duties to other staff and give instructions regarding work methods and
routines.
companionship, and assisting them with dressing, bathing, eating, and other
needs.
Run errands, such as taking laundry to the cleaners and buying groceries.
Plan menus and cook and serve meals and refreshments following employer's
instructions or own methods.
SERVICE PLAN
Working without a plan is similar to providing household services without knowing what
and how to start. A plan is necessary to give direction to any undertaking. The parts of a
plan are
as follows:
This refers to the end product or the result of the activity. This should
B. Objective
This refers to the goal you want to achieve. Objectives should be set
cooperatively by the student and the teacher. It should focus on the three
completed.
specified.
tabular form to show a description of each. The quantity, unit, total cost, tools
table. List of tools and equipment needed follows the list of materials. The
date when the service was started and completed can also be indicated in this
part.
E. Procedure