Caregivers

Job Description

Care.com is a platform that connects babysitters, senior caretakers, tutors, petsitters, housekeepers, and other household support roles with people hiring for them. Because of the nature of the work (inside homes, often without direct supervision, outside of a business environment), Care.com goes to extensive measures to protect both their members finding work AND their members hiring for roles. They offer services saftety tools and resources, ways for caregivers to be paid and obtain profession

Care.com, an IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) company, was founded in 2006 on the understanding that quality family care is both a fundamental human need and a key driver of economic growth and empowerment. When children receive quality care in their critical formative years, they are on a path to achievement and success. Women disproportionately shoulder caregiving responsibilities, but when they have supports in place that enable them to work, our economy grows. When seniors receive quality care in their homes, healthcare costs decline with fewer hospital stays. When we have a strong caregiving workforce, all these things are possible.

Care.com offers of an array of services that enable families to find, manage and pay for care and provide employment opportunities for caregivers. These include a robust suite of safety tools and resources, easy ways for caregivers to be paid and obtain professional benefits, household tax and payroll services for families, and customized corporate benefits packages covering child care and senior care services.

• For families, our digital platform provides a simple, comprehensive solution for finding, managing, and paying for family care needs including child care, senior care, special needs care, pet care, housekeepers and tutors. Additionally, Care.com HomePay provides peace of mind by managing household payroll and taxes for families who employ caregivers.
• For caregivers, we provide a platform for finding high quality jobs, as well as access to benefits that can lead to sustainable, meaningful careers.
• Our enterprise solution, Care@Work, helps companies provide care benefits to their employees, making it easier to attract and retain talent and increasing productivity and reducing absenteeism and turnover.

The global care economy is being driven by sweeping demographic shifts and in the coming decades care jobs are projected to be one of the fastest growing job sectors in the world

How to Apply

Go to the Care.com site and select “Find Jobs”. Setting up a Care.com caregiver account includes:

• creating a profile
• completing a bio about yourself, including any previous experience you’ve had in your field
• uploading a current photo of yourself

Submission for a background check is also required. Care.com has their own “enhanced caregivier screening” called CareCheck during which they collect your legal name, permanent address, birth date, and Social Security Number. This check includes:
     – Social Security Number trace
     – National Sex Offender Public Website search
     – Multi-jurisdictional criminal database search
     – Federal and county criminal records search

When this process is successfully completed, your profile will display a CareCheck badge and the date of completion, nad you will be qualified to be shown in search results. CareCheck will be re-run annually with your paid membership.

 Overall, your profile be reviewed by Care.com, and if approved, you can search and apply for available opportunities by type of care and proximity.

Job Types

• Babysitter
• Nanny
• Senior care and nursing
• Special needs caretaking
• Housekeeping
• Tutoring
• In home day care
• Running errands and odd jobs

• Care.com does not take a percentage of earnings
• Quick and easy access to local opportunites.
• You can choose the rate you want to charge within a range based on our experience level (typically between $10-$15/hour)

Price to Be on the Platform

Membership has two levels, basic and premium.

Basic membership is free, but is limited in functionality. You are able to:

• Set up your account and build your profile strength
• Search for and apply to jobs

A premium membership includes all of the features of a basic membership, plus the ability to:

• Appear featured in search results
• Proactively reach out to families, including families who have not yet posted a job

If you decide to go with the premium membership tier, you have the choice of paying three different monthly fees:

• 6 months: $10 per month
• 3 months: $15 per month
• 1 month: $20 per month