Educare

Educare offers a training and placement facility to anyone involved in childcare: Parents, creché assistants, teachers, au-pairs, nannies, housekeepers, grannies, family and friends.

Our courses include:  

• Basic Childcare
• Save-a-Child First Aid
• Cooking and Nutrition for Kids
• Developmental Stimulation
• Housekeeping for the Family

We also offer:

• Domestic, Nanny and Au-Pair placements
• Employment Contracts and advice, UIF Assistance
  

Educare offers peace of mind. Let us help you find the best help or we can offer excellent training to your existing child minder or yourself. Our classes are kept small, ensuring individual attention and one-on-one assistance.


COURSES:
MOTHERING AND BASIC CHILD CARE
PERFECT FOR FIRST MOMS or CHILDMINDERS!
Come And Learn The Basics of Taking Care A Baby and get tips for the months that follow!    

   
CLASSES WILL DEAL WITH:

• Working towards a routine
• Practical skills including:
  • Bathing your newborn
  • Nappy changing
  • Swaddling etc etc...
  • Hygiene at home
• Baby Massage
• Bottle feeding & Sterilizing       
• Introducing Solids
• Infant CPR and choking  
• Prevention of cot death
• Potty Training
• Discipline

Baby matters, basics and beyond learn the essentials and be prepared before your little miracle arrives...

SAVE-A-CHILD FIRST AID COURSE

• CPR : Resuscitation of an unconscious child
• Assessing an injury/ level of response
• Emergency procedures: routine to follow
• Calling for help: Who, How and When to call
• Choking, drowning, poisoning, head & neck injuries
• Animal bites/stings,wounds, bleeding, shock, burns, fractures, snake & spider bites, childhood ailments
• HIV/AIDS, safety in the home... and much more!
• Our course covers all the procedures applicable to household, family and camping emergencies applicable specifically to children, but adaptable to the whole family!

We offer as part of our course, an Interactive, Hands-on, 3 hour CPR & choking course offering the delegates:

• An Interactive DVD to watch
• Plenty of hands-on practice on our CPR Dummies
• A Brilliantly set out and illustrated course manual
• A certificate valid for two years

EDUCARE is registered with the South African Resuscitation Council, and runs American Heart Association approved courses.


COOKING 4 TOTS 2 TEENS
One day course from 8:30am - 12:30pm

• Nutritious meals for toddlers to school kids
• Delicious lunch box treats
• Quick and easy finger snacks
• Picnic foods
• Recipe book included!
• How to handle fussy eaters.
• Lots to taste and try!

Wonderful, fun, interactive course with lots to taste and 10 recipes actually cooked in class!
Stunning recipe book with over 80 recipes in included!

Also available, a 2-day course: includes introducing solids, making purees, stage by stage feeding, info on allergies and much more!

DEVELOPMENTAL STIMULATION
A two day course that could make the difference between in average child and an intelligent child!! 

• Is intelligence fixed at birth?
• Learn about how your baby and child's brain development is affected by stimuli.
• Find out how to bring up a bilingual child
• Learn about "The Magic of Music"
• Develop Life Skills, Social skills, Motor Skills
• Make puppets, playdough, books and more.
• Covering all aspects of developmental stimulation from birth to school going age.
• Lovely stage-by-stage ideas and activities

A Wonderful, fun, interactive course. Great for Moms, Nannies, Grannies, Au pairs, Nursery School Teachers, Crèche assistants...

Course includes a manual full of games, rhymes, songs, crafts and many other great ideas!

HOUSEKEEPING FOR THE FAMILY
Equip your housekeeper with the skills necessary to efficiently manage and run a home for a family.

Course Includes:

• Time management skills
• Laundry management
• Basic cooking and food preparation
• Work schedules and organisation
• Room by room guides
• Coping with baby and housework
• Communication and telephone skills
• Work ethics, personal hygiene and much more!
• Even the most experienced housekeeper may learn a thing or two! This course will give your housekeeper confidence and help her to be more effective and improve her time-management skills!

WE DO PLACEMENTS:
* NANNIES; * AU-PAIRS; * HOUSEKEEPERS; * CAREGIVERS

• We organise interviews with 6 candidates to choose from
• We pre-interview and reference check candidates
• We offer a discounted training course with your placement
• We offer assistance with contracts, UIF, labour issues...

Our Employment contract is simply the best!

EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS AND ADVICE, UIF ASSISTANCE
Let us handle your employment contract and UIF registration and take the headache out of Labour issues !
It is best to enter into a contract on the very first day of employing a Domestic so that the probation period is also covered by a contract!

Through our contract we can help you:

• Encourage minimal use of sick leave
• Encourage punctuality
• Deal with safety in the home rules
• Have an efficient disciplinary procedure, including a schedule of offences and possible penalties and warning forms
• Give your domestic a clear understanding of what her duties entail

Having a clear contract from day one will ensure a better relationship between you and your employee and will make sorting out problems easier should they arise.